Piastri has received six races to Norris’ 5 this season, they usually have received 11 of the 14 races to date between them.

Racing resumes on the Dutch Grand Prix on 29-31 August and Brown says he expects their battle to stay honest.

“I’ve stated to each of them individually, at home windows of alternative, has your team-mate ever accomplished 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 certain that stress will develop, however like Montreal – I am glad we received 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 optimistic 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 cope with any stress that evolves in the identical means they’ve managed the connection between the drivers to date.

“If one thing bubbles up, we’ll cope with it,” he stated. “And the way we function, which is [in] an open, clear, cope with it instantly [manner].

“It looks like from the skin wanting in, once you’ve seen battles between different team-mates, you’ve got sort of seen it brewing, and also you sort of go like ‘have they jumped on that, or are they simply sort of letting it construct up?’

“We’ll take the air out of the balloon instantly, 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 towards one another for a very long time in the identical staff,” he stated, “so it is vital that relationship continues to develop, as a result of the connection’s not nearly this yr, nevertheless it bleeds into subsequent yr, and they are going to be collectively for a very long time”.