Lando Norris says he has no complaints in regards to the severity of his penalty for not slowing for yellow flags within the Qatar Grand Prix and apologized to McLaren for costing the staff factors.
The stewards gave Norris a 10s stop-and-go penalty for failing to sluggish for yellow flags throughout the first half of the race when a wing mirror was sitting on the pit straight. On the lap in query, Norris gained greater than half a second on the automobiles round him — setting a private finest — within the first sector, and he says he was unaware of the yellow flag however didn’t dispute the penalty.
“Upset, after all. I let the staff down,” Norris stated. “The staff gave me an awesome automobile immediately. Simply the quickest on the market and I [expletive] it up.
“I don’t know what I did improper. I’m not an fool — if there’s a yellow flag I do know I must decelerate, that’s rule primary. [And] don’t go previous folks. For some cause I didn’t try this immediately, as a result of I’ve not seen it or I’ve missed it or one thing.
“I’ve to take it on the chin. In the event that they suppose I’ve finished one thing improper, I should have finished one thing improper. I can solely apologize for the remainder of the yr to the staff.
“I didn’t quit till the top. I did [the] finest I may. I’m upset — two factors for the quickest automobile I’ve ever seen.”
When it was put to Norris that some commenters had been shocked on the scale of penalty, he was dismissive of any complaints.
“It’s advantageous,” he stated. “If I did what they stated I did improper, then good on them for giving me the fast penalty.”
Norris says he must ensure he doesn’t make any additional errors in Abu Dhabi subsequent weekend to provide the staff the most effective likelihood attainable to safe the constructors’ championship.
“The staff gave me the most effective automobile on the market immediately,” he stated. “I’m very completely satisfied and grateful for them to take action. I bought a superb begin, I bought previous George [Russell]. I believed George could be our largest competitor immediately and that wasn’t the case; Max was, and he did an unimaginable job.
“We go in the identical as each weekend, eager to win, eager to be the most effective, eager to be the quickest. I simply must not be an fool and do what I did.”
