India, Oct. 6 -- Though McLaren won the constructors' championship - their first successive title since 1991 - at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday night, the achievement was overshadowed by the on-track clash between their two drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris and the following back-and-forth arguments over team radio.

With only six races remaining and 22 points separating the two, their friendship has become prickly and their relationship feisty as the 2025 nears its end, looking for the first McLaren drivers' title since Lewis Hamilton in 2007.

In an interview facilitated by FanCode, F1 great Mika Hakkinen, who won both his titles driving for McLaren in 1998 and 1999, discusses the title fight, the mental state of the drivers a...