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Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri collided with each other on the first lap again as the title rivals were both dumped out of the United States sprint.
The buildup to the weekend has been dominated by the “consequences” imposed by McLaren on Norris after the team held him responsible for banging wheels with Piastri in Singapore a fortnight ago. That minor tap paled into insignificance compared with the carnage at turn one of Saturday’s sprint in Austin, as Norris was left with only three tyres on his car.
Starting from third, Piastri – who leads Norris by 22 points in the championship standings – attempted to cut back up the inside of his teammate but turned into Sauber’s Nico Hülkenberg and, as a result, smashed into the rear left of Norris’s car.
