The regret of the McLaren driver
Lando Norris he had to settle for second place in Canada, a result that does not fully satisfy the McLaren driver. In fact, before the Safety Car made necessary by Logan Sargeant’s accident, Norris was flying with the intermediates and had given ten seconds to Max Verstappen who took advantage of the neutralization to regain the lead of the race.
Norris underlined in the press conference that the team made a mistake at that moment in not calling him back to the pits: “I could have stopped straight away like the others did and we didn’t, it was a mistake on our part – the words of the winner of the Miami GP – however, subsequently staying out with the intermediates instead of immediately switching to the slicks helped me to overcut Russell. I could have stayed ahead of Verstappen too if I had been quicker to overtake again after the Safety Car returned to the pits.”
On the positive side, you can no longer celebrate a second place: “We could have won and we didn’t, once again we were there and still finishing in second place is a good result in such difficult conditions although it is no longer a position to be fully celebrated and this is a big step forward in terms of performance in general. I certainly won’t be among those who complain about the Safety Car because in Miami it played to my advantage and in Canada it didn’t, it’s the racing.”
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