Lando Norris has explained the wrong decision he made in Azerbaijan
Grand Prix qualifying, after team-mate Oscar Piastri's costly
crash. Piastri crashed at Turn 3 during Q3 and will start ninth on
the grid, leaving the door open for Norris to qualify well to eat
into the 31-point lead the Australian holds in the drivers'
standings. Norris elected to go out first on the sole laps drivers
could complete after Piastri's crash, and was the first to cross
the line, ending up third. However, those behind then bumped him
down to seventh, meaning there are only two places between the
title contenders on the grid. Explaining, Norris was defiant that
he had not wasted an opportunity to catch Piastri as he explained
the decision to go first. "No, because I still did everything I
could," Norris firmly told media, including RacingNews365 , if he
had wasted an opportunity given Piastri's crash. "If I had won
every race, I could have been world champion by now, but I didn't,
so no. They were tricky conditions, and I went out first, and it
was just the wrong decision to make at the end. "If everyone else
got a yellow behind because someone went off behind me, you
wouldn't be asking me this question. Sometimes it goes your way
around here, sometimes it doesn't, and we thought we took the best
option, and it would have been it if it wasn't spitting with rain.
"It just started to spit again before the final run, and then going
out first is just the incorrect thing, but today, I struggled more
because of making the best decision , but that's the hindsight
thing, not an incorrect one at the time. "I wanted to go out
first." The article continues below. Turns 3 and 4 were a hotspot
for incidents, with Nico Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto causing
red flags at Turn 4 before Piastri's smash. Detailing just how
tricky conditions were at the sequence, Norris explained how the
wind-speed made "Turn 4 felt like one of the worst corners I've
ever driven in my life." "It was quite incredible, I wish everyone
could understand how difficult it was with the wind, because half
the crashes you saw were probably because of the wind, but not
all," he said. "Some of them are braking too late, and trying to
go for something which is not there, but Turn 4 felt like one of
the worst corners I've ever driven in my life. "The tail wind was
like 50kph, and it might be that the next lap, it is 10kph, so you
are like: 'Oh, I can go quicker' and then you are in the wall, so
it is difficult. "That's why you want a car which is consistent and
forgiving, and maybe we just struggled with that a little bit."
Grand Prix qualifying, after team-mate Oscar Piastri's costly
crash. Piastri crashed at Turn 3 during Q3 and will start ninth on
the grid, leaving the door open for Norris to qualify well to eat
into the 31-point lead the Australian holds in the drivers'
standings. Norris elected to go out first on the sole laps drivers
could complete after Piastri's crash, and was the first to cross
the line, ending up third. However, those behind then bumped him
down to seventh, meaning there are only two places between the
title contenders on the grid. Explaining, Norris was defiant that
he had not wasted an opportunity to catch Piastri as he explained
the decision to go first. "No, because I still did everything I
could," Norris firmly told media, including RacingNews365 , if he
had wasted an opportunity given Piastri's crash. "If I had won
every race, I could have been world champion by now, but I didn't,
so no. They were tricky conditions, and I went out first, and it
was just the wrong decision to make at the end. "If everyone else
got a yellow behind because someone went off behind me, you
wouldn't be asking me this question. Sometimes it goes your way
around here, sometimes it doesn't, and we thought we took the best
option, and it would have been it if it wasn't spitting with rain.
"It just started to spit again before the final run, and then going
out first is just the incorrect thing, but today, I struggled more
because of making the best decision , but that's the hindsight
thing, not an incorrect one at the time. "I wanted to go out
first." The article continues below. Turns 3 and 4 were a hotspot
for incidents, with Nico Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto causing
red flags at Turn 4 before Piastri's smash. Detailing just how
tricky conditions were at the sequence, Norris explained how the
wind-speed made "Turn 4 felt like one of the worst corners I've
ever driven in my life." "It was quite incredible, I wish everyone
could understand how difficult it was with the wind, because half
the crashes you saw were probably because of the wind, but not
all," he said. "Some of them are braking too late, and trying to
go for something which is not there, but Turn 4 felt like one of
the worst corners I've ever driven in my life. "The tail wind was
like 50kph, and it might be that the next lap, it is 10kph, so you
are like: 'Oh, I can go quicker' and then you are in the wall, so
it is difficult. "That's why you want a car which is consistent and
forgiving, and maybe we just struggled with that a little bit."
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