Former Haas Formulation 1 group principal Guenther Steiner has criticised Lando Norris’s Coca-Cola cooldown room second following the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, claiming it was unprofessional of the McLaren driver.
After ending third on the Madring circuit, Norris was seen consuming a Coca-Cola within the cooldown room. With rival drinks firm PepsiCo having a partnership with F1, an official requested the 2025 champion to place the drink down. He firmly responded: “I simply did a race, so I am allowed to drink what I would love. Thanks a lot.”
The second rapidly grew to become a speaking level on-line, with many followers praising Norris. However Steiner argued throughout The Crimson Flags Podcast that he should not have finished it.
“If you’re an expert, you do not try this. Finish of story,” the previous group chief mentioned. “You realize what you are able to do and what you can not do. You are nicely educated. He should not have finished it. Is it a foul factor that he did it? Will anyone get damage? No. However as a professional, you should not do it. However he has finished it. And you realize what? I could not give a s***.”
Lando Norris, McLaren
Photograph by: Federico Basile
Steiner added when requested if it was due to Pepsi’s partnership with F1: “It is all going by classes. They promote it and clearly if you happen to do not pay, you can not have it. And he had a Coke. It was not the neatest factor to do.
“However as I mentioned, I do not care as a result of now, for Coca-Cola, it labored out fairly good. It was fairly good for [Coca-Cola]. If they would not have mentioned something, no one would have even seen, however as a result of it was so bumped up now it is a factor, and now Coca-Cola is laughing.”
Norris completed the race in third after ranging from pole place and shedding the lead throughout an ill-timed digital security automobile. He at present sits fourth within the drivers’ standings with 186 factors, 106 factors behind championship chief Kimi Antonelli.
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