{"id":20897,"date":"2025-10-10T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-what-are-mclarens-papaya-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:07:27","slug":"formula-1-what-are-mclarens-papaya-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-what-are-mclarens-papaya-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: What are McLaren&#8217;s papaya rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">&#8216;Papaya rules&#8217; are a code of conduct for McLaren team-mates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris on the racing track.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The word &#8216;papaya&#8217; refers to the colour of the fruit that bears a resemblance to the iconic orange colour of McLaren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The drivers are often told of &#8216;papaya rules&#8217; on radio messages during races when they are battling each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It essentially reminds the drivers that they are free to race, but they must keep the battle fair, clean and avoid colliding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said both Piastri and Norris have been involved in creating the code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also ensures equality and fairness between the two drivers as McLaren do not have a designated &#8216;number one&#8217; driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The guidelines have caused growing tension between the two drivers as they fight for the drivers&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren won the 2025 constructors&#8217; championship with six races remaining at the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/crl5ge8dle4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Papaya rules&#8217; are a code of conduct for McLaren team-mates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris on the racing track. The word &#8216;papaya&#8217; refers to the colour of the fruit that bears a resemblance to the iconic orange colour of McLaren. The drivers are often told of &#8216;papaya rules&#8217; on radio messages during races when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20899,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions\/20899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}