Who's at the head of the pack in this year's Formula 1 driver standings? Not Max Verstappen? Not Lewis Hamilton. It's Oscar Piastri, F1's 24-year-old Australian sensation.

Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have once again made contact with each other in a Formula 1 race, this time taking each other out at the sprint race of the US Grand Prix, just two weeks after their collision in Singapore.

Oscar Piastri has rubbished claims McLaren are favouring Lando Norris over him as the controversy from the Singapore GP lingers into Austin.

I want to win, declares Lando Norris as he says luckless collision with Oscar Piastri in Austin Sprint will have no bearing on approach to start of main race; watch Sundays United States GP at 8pm (build-up from 6.

Max Verstappen took a comfortable pole position ahead of Lando Norris after Oscar Piastri slumped to sixth on a difficult day for the title leader.

Piastri's lead has shrunk to 22 points. His pushback to his team in Singapore suggests he won't let it slip away quietly

Oscar Piastri “could go anywhere” on the Formula One grid, including to Red Bull, as speculation mounts that he could leave McLaren as soon as the end of this season.

McLaren claimed constructors' championship success for the second year running in Singapore, but it was a lap one battle between Piastri and Norris that really caught the eye, with Piastri accusing the Brit of 'barging' him out of the way, and claiming that it was 'unfair' that McLaren would not swap the two drivers' positions.

Oscar Piastri will need to bounce back quickly from crashing out on the opening lap of the sprint race at the United States of America Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. It was a disastrous start to the weekend for McLaren as Lando Norris was also knocked out of the race in the same Turn One collision at the Circuit of the Americas.