Norris regrets his behaviour: “It was stupid”

In preview of The Belgian F1 GP this weekenda week later McLaren’s controversial double in Hungarywhere Lando Norris refused to pass his teammate Oscar Piastri for many laps, although he finally did in the final laps, The British showed regret for his attitude when the team gave him the lead over the Australian due to the undercut. (stopped in the pits earlier) to his teammate, in a clear failure of team strategy.

“Could it have been handled slightly differently, both from a team perspective and from a personal perspective? Yes absolutely. I think we wouldn’t be talking about this now,” commented Lando Norris to the international press present at Spa, as reported by the ‘Motorsport.com’ portal.

“I don’t care if people out there think and create their own stories about what happened, what I did or didn’t do and things like that. But the fact that it slightly overshadowed Oscar Piastri’s first F1 victory is something I’m not too proud of.”argument.

“The fact that we got a double and it almost didn’t make the news after the race. The fact that we got 1-2 and nothing was said about it from that side. Yes, those were the parts that made me worse,” added Norris, regretfully.

“But we talked about it with the team, we talked about it and both parties can do things better and a little bit differently. “We learned from this and we hope that next time we will do better,” He continued, suggesting the team could have avoided what happened by stopping Piastri in the pits earlier when he was comfortably leading the race at the Hungaroring.

“Stupid that he didn’t release it immediatelybecause we are free to compete. I could have let it go and tried to get through it. It seems so simple now, but it wasn’t something that crossed my mind at the time. It’s something as simple as that. I could have done it, but I had a good rhythm and things were going well at the time. So I asked the team several times. “I was a bit of an idiot and didn’t think to let it go then,” he reflected self-deprecatingly.

I would like to make an important clarification

However, Lando Norris made it clear that there was never a moment where he thought about disobeying the team’s orders: “I always made it clear that I had to pass him. But the longer I waited, because it didn’t matter if I let it go right away or later, the more people thought about whether I would or not. “A lot of people thought I wouldn’t do it, but I knew I had to do it, so it didn’t change anything.”he finished to clarify.