In Brazil, the McLaren team performed clearly worse than expected and the gap between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen in the individual championship widened again. Now it is 62 points, which can only be regained by a miracle in the remaining three stages.
After the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Andrea Stella, head of the British team leading the Constructors’ Championship, highlighted a number of key points that will have to be carefully analyzed, together with the drivers and their engineers, in preparation for the remaining three races. stages of the season.
Lando lost the lead already at the start, he was ahead of George Russell, but Norris remained second behind the Mercedes driver for a long time, but both decided to make a pit stop, while their rivals took risks, stayed on the track, although the rain became clearly worse, but ultimately won as the race was quickly stopped by red flags.
On the restart, Norris dropped from fifth to seventh position due to a mistake in Turn 1, which saw him thrown off the track.
“When we talk about Lando, we must first of all analyze the reasons for his departure from the circuit, which cost us the loss of several positions,” RacingNews365 quotes Stella. But we had problems during qualifying. In the final session, Oscar Piastri did not drive the best lap, because he locked the brakes on the last two attempts.
Although we talk about the drivers, the team in general must also admit that we have not provided them with cars that are easier to drive in such difficult conditions. Although I’m sure they can both tell themselves that they could have acted better at certain times.
But I can judge the difficulty of the tasks they face from the words of both riders, who said they were just trying to reach the finish line. But we really need to get to the finish line, because during such races problems can easily arise that lead to retirement, and then we would not earn any points at all.
Given the challenges the team now faces, it is important to avoid such an outcome and I would like to commend both drivers for achieving this goal.”
“Norris eventually finished 6th in Sao Paulo, while Verstappen took an impressive victory in true championship style, despite starting a distant 17th.”
Source: F1 News
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