Lando Norris suspects he may have salvaged a factors end after colliding with Max Verstappen in yesterday’s Austrian Grand Prix.
The McLaren driver retired from the race within the pits after the pair collided at flip three on the sixty fourth lap of 71. Nevertheless whereas Norris subsequently retired, Verstappen was capable of rejoin the race and end fifth.
Afterwards Norris admitted he may have lessened the harm to his automotive by driving again extra slowly. “There’s lots of harm on the automotive,” he instructed the official F1 channel.
“The automotive’s utterly destroyed now, so, it’s a disgrace. You need to maintain driving and if I acquired again to the pits in a greater manner, I may have gone out and acquired some factors, however the automotive was too badly damaged.”
The 2 drivers sustained rear tyre punctures within the collision at flip three – Verstappen on the left-hand aspect of his automotive, Norris the appropriate. He instantly instructed the staff the automotive was too broken to proceed, however his race engineer replied it was “only a puncture”.
Norris handed Verstappen’s broken automotive at flip 4, then the Crimson Bull driver re-passed him at flip eight. As he arrived within the pits Norris instructed the staff they need to retire the automotive, and though the crew initially tried to restore it, they quickly deserted their efforts to get him again within the race.
The McLaren driver was happy along with his efforts within the race previous to the collision. “I really feel like I drove race,” he mentioned. “I saved myself within the combat the entire time.
“It was very tough on-track, straightforward to make errors, tough to drive due to the wind and situations and issues like that.”
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Norris’ radio after his collision with Verstappen
| Norris | Yeah the automotive’s fucked. |
| Joseph | It’s only a puncture. Field this lap, field this lap. |
| Engineer | Crimson A10, pink A10. |
| Engineer | Diff pink A10. |
| Joseph | Crimson A10, please, pink A10. |
| Norris | I’m in pink A10, mate, are you blind? |
| Norris | He enters the pits It’s an excessive amount of harm, okay, it’s higher to simply retire now. |
| Norris | McLaren try to restore his automotive Let’s not waste mileage as a result of if we are able to’t get factors there’s no level doing it. |
| Joseph | We’ll maintain going, mate. |
| Joseph | Okay. Flip it off, please, flip it off. |
Verstappen’s radio after his collision with Norris
| Verstappen | Good. Oh my god. |
| Lambiase | Field Max. Field. Obtained rear-left puncture. Field. |
| Lambiase | Tyre 13. Tyre one-three. |
| Lambiase | Look out for the white line pit lane entry. |
| Lambiase | And only a reminder strat 12 in pit lane. |
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