“You can’t see the white lines,” Lando Norris brands the policing of track limits rule as “stupid”
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Lando Norris finished P7 in the Austrian GP, due to a 5-second time penalty he had to serve after breaching the track limits quite a lot of times. He wasn’t the only driver to have gotten the flags for the limits, a total of 43 lap times were deleted in the span of 71 laps. Norris found the regulations to be “stupid”, which he is not really wrong about.
It was a P6 finish for Norris but he ended up in P7 losing the place to Mick Schumacher’s Haas giving him the best finish of his career. Norris hoped for a fight with the Haas if he had no penalty to go through. Haas was very quick around the Red Bull Ring, they were capable of fighting Mercedes for a considerable amount of time too. Norris also noticed Haas’ pace but was happy with the position both McLaren finished the race with.
“I’m reasonably happy I would say. I think the only thing was my five-second penalty from track limits,” Lando Norris pinched over his penalty.
“I did two of them very early on, so I was on my final warning for three of them quite early on. So I was on my final warning for quite a long time and it’s a tough track to stay within the lines first of all, especially when you’re fighting the car a bit more when you’re pushing to try and get the guys ahead and you just have to push to that limit, “ Lando Norris went on to explain his struggles to keep his head on limit and on racing together.
“I went over it obviously a few too many times which cost us, we should have been P6 ahead of Schumacher I reckon, we could have had a fight with him I’d say, but they were quick, he did a good job, he managed the tyres well. And we got the points we wanted, so I think from our pre-race objectives, we succeeded in that, “ Norris concluded praising Haas and Mick.
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Lando Norris optimistic about the 12th round: France GP
Lando Norris was satisfied with double points finish in Austria after consecutive podiums on the track P7 and P9 isn’t a bad finish for the McLaren team this season. Austria was still a strong weekend for the McLaren team if the penalty is not considered, which isn’t the driver’s fault, thinks Norris.
“You can’t see the white lines, it’s just guessing and I’m obviously not good enough at guessing,” he explained.
France has also been a strong track for the papaya team, but regulations in 2022 have changed quite a lot of things.
“But yeah, we’ve got obviously a completely different circuit with Paul Ricard coming up, and we actually had pretty good race pace here last year, not that last year is relative to this year at the moment, so I don’t know, “ said Norris.
McLaren sees its rival, Alpine, level on points, 81 each and will fight for fourth place in the constructors for the 2022 season.
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