Piastri has received six races to Norris’ 5 this season, they usually have received 11 of the 14 races thus far between them.
Racing resumes on the Dutch Grand Prix on 29-31 August and Brown says he expects their battle to stay truthful.
“I’ve stated to each of them individually, at home windows of alternative, has your team-mate ever executed something to bother you? ‘By no means’. And that is what they each stated,” Brown added.
“So there’s competitiveness brewing. We’re not feeling any stress. Because the championship builds I am positive that stress will develop, however like Montreal – I am glad we bought it out of the way in which, as a result of it was a non-event, Lando owned it, Oscar understood, it was a mistake.”
Brown stated that though he expects the 2 drivers to finish up colliding once more, he was “very assured it will not be deliberate”.
He added: “I am constructive they’re by no means going to run one another off the monitor, and that is the place you get into unhealthy blood.”
And he stated that McLaren would take care of any stress that evolves in the identical method they’ve managed the connection between the drivers thus far.
“If one thing bubbles up, we’ll take care of it,” he stated. “And the way we function, which is [in] an open, clear, take care of it immediately [manner].
“It looks like from the skin trying in, once you’ve seen battles between different team-mates, you have sort of seen it brewing, and also you sort of go like ‘have they jumped on that, or are they only sort of letting it construct up?’
“We’ll take the air out of the balloon immediately, if we really feel like something’s effervescent up, however we have not seen any of it.”
Brown stated it was important for McLaren for the 2 to stay on good phrases as a result of they each have long-term contracts.
“They will be racing in opposition to one another for a very long time in the identical workforce,” he stated, “so it is necessary that relationship continues to develop, as a result of the connection’s not nearly this 12 months, nevertheless it bleeds into subsequent 12 months, and they will be collectively for a very long time”.
