Piastri helped Norris hit new F1 peaks, says McLaren

Norris and Piastri took second and fourth respectively in the recent British Grand Prix.

It was a breakthrough result for McLaren and its upgrade package after struggling through the first half of the season, but it was also big boost for rookie Piastri, who took his best result in F1 by some margin.

The highly rated Australian has repaid the faith shown in him by McLaren when it went to great lengths to prise him away from Alpine last summer,…