Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell and Chief Trackside Officer Mike Krack. Photo: RacePictures.

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byLuke-John Buckle

Follow the best news of the day with GPblog's daily live blog, and the build up to Mexico City Grand Prix practice sessions.

Piastri reveals there aren't any repercussions at McLaren anymore

Oscar Piastri is aiming to get back on track at Mexico City Grand Prix after slumping to a fifith place finish last time out in Austin.

The two McLaren cars have made contact with each other at the last two Grand Prix weekends: they made slight contact on the first lap at the Singapore Grand Prix before a more significant clash in the Sprint at COTA.

After Singapore, McLaren placed some 'consequences' on Lando Norris, but Piastri revealed they are no longer in effect.

He said on Thursday in Mexico City: "We go through every weekend regardless of what's happened. I think there is a degree of responsibility from my side in the sprint.

"We're starting this weekend with a clean slate for both of us, just going out and racing, and see who can come out on top.

"The consequences on Lando's side have been removed [from Singapore]."

Verstappen disagrees with Marko over losing interest in F1

Max Verstappen at Mexico City GP: Image credit: RacePictures

Max Verstappen has been performing admirably this season and is starting to build momentum in the fight for the world championship.

The reigning world champion is 40 points behind the pacesetter Piastri with five rounds to go, but has won three of the last four races.

He has also raced in other series this year and won on his NLS GT3 debut at the Nordschleife.

Red Bull's top advisor Helmut Marko said that Verstappen had 'lost a bit of interest' in F1 earlier this year, but Verstappen didn't share the same opinion.

Verstappen said to the media: "No, I don't [agree]. Of course it's more enjoyable coming to the race weekends like this, knowing that you don't have a chance to win.

"But I know for myself that when I sit in the car, I will always try to maximise everything that I have, and I give it everything. So even if I'm fighting for P4 or even a P9, I will always try to get the best out of it.

"I will be happy or not happy with certain results. And allowing me to do other stuff, this has been planned already for a long time, so it's not that this has suddenly come on the radar, because these things have to be planned well in advance, and the preparation for it as well.

"So that it allowed me this year to compete myself in real life, that was the first opportunity, but I've been doing this also offline a lot, even racing during F1 weekends online, so there's nothing really that has changed in terms of how professional I approach my race weekends."

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