The feeling is that the opportunity was great for Lando Norris to beat Max Verstappen again, but in Canada the McLaren wall was unable to exploit it. The Briton did very well at managing the intermediate tires in the wet first stint, coming out on top to get rid of both the Red Bull driver and George Russell’s Mercedes.
Right at the moment, when he was taking off, an accident by Logan Sargeant caused the Safety Car to come out and the Woking team wasn’t quick enough to react, causing him to stay on the track while behind him the pursuers came back to change tires. At the restart, therefore, he found himself third, behind the Dutchman and the Briton.
After a second shower of rain, the track began to dry again and at this juncture Lando decided to try to extend his stint when it was time to switch to slicks. And he didn’t succeed by a hair’s breadth, because he exited the pits in front of the three-time world champion, but with cold tires he skated on the still damp asphalt of turn 2 and therefore Max found the gap to slip through again.
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, Lando Norris, McLaren F1 Team
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Despite everything, he didn’t want to complain, recalling that in Miami it was the Safety Car that gave him the great chance to win his first victory in Formula 1: “It went the way it went: the Safety Car helped me in Miami , so I don’t want to complain today, it’s the racing. But I had a good race and the car was strong all weekend, so we continue to fight.” get on the podium.
A second place cannot be thrown into a race that was not at all easy due to the constantly changing conditions: “It was chaos, a very eventful race, but I seemed to have driven very well from start to finish. In the first two stints we had a fantastic pace, but the Safety Car didn’t help me. It did it in Miami, but let’s say that today I gave back what I had achieved there. It was a bit of an unlucky race on my part, but there we had a lot of fun. These conditions are at the same time stressful and pleasant for those inside the cockpit”, he said, probably also referring to a couple of off-piste excursions of which he was the protagonist.
“Before the Safety Car I was in the lead and was gaining a couple of seconds per lap, but here in Montreal these types of unexpected events always happen. I can only congratulate Max, because he drove a good race, without mistakes. In the end I’m happy with second place, because it’s a good haul of points for the team, so it was a positive weekend,” he concluded.
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