Ex- McLaren driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes the team will “explode” this season as their drivers battle for their first F1 world championship.

Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by nine points with 10 races left of the 2025 season. The sport returns to action after the summer break next week with the Dutch Grand Prix , a race Norris won last year.

The two drivers have fought respectfully so far this season and have only collided once in Canada , an incident Norris took full blame for, and avoided a clash at the last race in Hungary despite a late tussle for the lead.

Yet seven-time grand prix winner Montoya, who raced for McLaren from 2005-2006, can see a crash occurring on track given the stakes at the papaya outfit this year.

“The McLaren group is in a groove, it's peac

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