Lando Norris has insisted that conversations he had with Oscar Piastri after their collision in Canada have made McLaren stronger moving forward. 

Norris collided with Piastri in the closing stages of the Canadian Grand Prix, resulting in the Briton retiring from the race with four laps remaining. 

Piastri emerged unscathed from the incident and was able to take fourth place, extending his lead to 22 points in the drivers' championship over his team-mate. 

Following the race, Norris said that he "made a fool out of himself" and would take the incident "on the chin" moving into the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend. 

Despite taking ownership of the collision, McLaren felt the need to sit both drivers down to discuss how the team would need to operate moving forward. 

"There have been a good amount of talks," Norris said. "But there's been good understanding of everything, you know, realising my thoughts and understanding things from both my side and explaining that to the team.

"But I think I made it clear from the immediate moment that I misjudged it, and I took the fault for it.

"So, yeah, I mean, of course, not the most joyful conversations, but conversations that needed to be had clearly and obviously from us as a team, because it's not just about myself, it is how we perform as a team and we all know what rule number one was and continues and will always be.

"So, yeah, some very constructive things and in the unfortunate way, but a good way, I think many things have come out stronger than I would say they were prior to the weekend, which you might not expect, but I think is a good outcome."

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That result saw McLaren fail to see any of their drivers on the podium in Canada, ending their run of consecutive races at the start of the season with at least one of their drivers in the top three (nine).

Should they fail to do so again in Austria, it will be the first time both Piastri and Norris have failed to get on the podium in consecutive races since the 2024 Sao Paulo and Las Vegas Grand Prix. 

That incident was a small blip in an otherwise fine start to the season. McLaren have achieved 52 one-two finishes in F1, three of them in 2025, and they could achieve four in a year for the first time since 2007 (four with Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton) in Canada.

Norris added that it was important for him to take responsibility so that the relationship with his team-mate remained stable going into the second half of the year.

"Between the trust and the honesty I think that Oscar and I have for one another, it's important that we keep it up, we stay strong as a team, because we don't want to have the downfall that we know many other teams have had in the past," he added.

"You know, we want to race each other fair and hard and on the limit and not have a repeat of what happened last time out, and that takes both of us, even though Canada was on me. So, yeah, from a mentality point of view, from a constructive point of view, I think that's why it was positive."