Lando Norris has criticised the “silliest” rule in Components 1 after receiving a number of observe limits warnings throughout america Grand Prix on the Circuit of The Americas.
The McLaren driver fiercely fought with Charles Leclerc after shedding second place to the Ferrari driver at Flip 1. With Leclerc placing on a powerful defence, Norris finally made the move stick after 51 laps of backwards and forwards between them. However within the technique of the thrilling on-track battle, he exceeded observe limits.
Whereas he was capable of keep away from a five-second penalty, Norris argued that drivers shouldn’t be handed observe limits strikes when they’re racing others. On one event, Norris famous, he had tried to go across the outdoors of the Monegasque driver however failed to finish the overtake, so misplaced time to Leclerc and on prime of that was given the observe limits strike.
“I imply, the locations which had been straightforward to go off had been Flip 9 over the crest of the hill, after which the final two corners. I believe I used to be on three strikes by like lap 10. So I did not put myself in the very best place. However then considered one of my strikes was as a result of I used to be racing,” Norris defined through the post-race press convention.
“You understand, I believe that is one of many silliest guidelines that we’ve – we’re invited to attempt to race, however in the event you race an excessive amount of, you get a penalty for it. And I bought a observe limits [strike] for attempting to go across the outdoors and shedding time to Charles.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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“So, does not actually make a lot sense when it comes to going racing. Nevertheless it positively made my life that little bit trickier, particularly Flip 19, with the wind, like Max mentioned, it was fairly inconsistent. It’s troublesome to simply be at all times on the restrict and never make errors — which I clearly made a pair too lots of, too early on. However yeah, just a little bit extra cautious on the finish as a result of I knew I couldn’t afford a penalty. However I took the dangers I wanted to.”
Norris went on to safe second in america Grand Prix behind race winner and four-time champion Max Verstappen. Leclerc took the final podium place after crossing the road in third, adopted by his Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton in fourth.
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