Lando Norris has criticised the “silliest” rule in Formulation 1 after receiving a number of monitor limits warnings throughout the USA Grand Prix on the Circuit of The Americas.
The McLaren driver fiercely fought with Charles Leclerc after dropping second place to the Ferrari driver at Flip 1. With Leclerc placing on a robust defence, Norris ultimately made the go stick after 51 laps of forwards and backwards between them. However within the technique of the thrilling on-track battle, he exceeded monitor limits.
Whereas he was in a position to keep away from a five-second penalty, Norris argued that drivers shouldn’t be handed monitor limits strikes when they’re racing others. On one event, Norris famous, he had tried to go across the exterior of the Monegasque driver however failed to finish the overtake, so misplaced time to Leclerc and on high of that was given the monitor limits strike.
“I imply, the locations which have been simple to go off have 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 in the course of the post-race press convention.
“You realize, I believe that is one of many silliest guidelines that we’ve got – 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 acquired a monitor limits [strike] for attempting to go across the exterior and dropping time to Charles.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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“So, would not actually make a lot sense by way of going racing. But it surely positively made my life that little bit trickier, particularly Flip 19, with the wind, like Max mentioned, it was fairly inconsistent. It’s tough to only be at all times on the restrict and never make errors — which I clearly made a pair too a lot of, too early on. However yeah, slightly 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 the USA 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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