Norris’ response sparked controversy

After completing testing in Bahrain, Lando Norris was reported to have hit the wall in his heart, which was interpreted as his true reaction to the results of the three days’ work on the track.

Since the McLaren team was last in terms of distance covered in the summary statistics of the tests and in the ranking of the best laps, Lando failed to rise above the 13th line, it is quite possible that he had reasons had to be angry.

But in official comments, of course, he said completely different things, and in communicating with the press, he also tried not to betray his mood. Although Andrea Stella, McLaren’s new team boss, admitted frankly that they are not in the top four at the moment.

Will Buxton, a commentator on the championship’s official website, who mainly worked in the pit lane, saw Norris moving past the wall on the final day of testing. Will then said live that “this is nothing like Lando, so something is going wrong.”

Today, however, Buxton was forced to add the following via social media: “It appears that the comment I made live was exaggerated and made headlines. It looks like Lando just completely destroyed everything. Of course he didn’t, and I never said he did.

I just saw him hit the wall panel and it seemed like it was caused by upset feelings. But he could very well have done it as a joke.”