SINGAPORE -- It says a lot about the rising tensions in the Formula 1 drivers' championship that the main talking point on Sunday night in Singapore was not George Russell 's surprise victory or McLaren's defense of its constructors' title .

Even in the early hours of Monday morning, the opening-lap contact between McLaren teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri was being micro-analyzed -- along with the potential ramifications at the remaining six races of 2025.

Viewed through the prism of the FIA's racing rules, the contact between teammates was nothing but a racing incident -- the sort of which regularly occurs on the opening lap of a grand prix. Within the space of a minute, the stewards noted the incident and decided not to investigate, meaning the collision, which caus

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