Lando Norris says he has no complaints concerning 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 through 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 vehicles 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.
“Dissatisfied, in fact. I let the staff down,” Norris stated. “The staff gave me an important automotive at present. Simply the quickest on the market and I [expletive] it up.
“I don’t know what I did fallacious. 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 at present, 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 achieved one thing fallacious, I will need to have achieved one thing fallacious. I can solely apologize for the remainder of the 12 months to the staff.
“I didn’t quit till the top. I did [the] finest I may. I’m upset — two factors for the quickest automotive 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 fantastic,” he stated. “If I did what they stated I did fallacious, then good on them for giving me the fast penalty.”
Norris says he should ensure that he doesn’t make any additional errors in Abu Dhabi subsequent weekend to provide the staff the most effective likelihood doable to safe the constructors’ championship.
“The staff gave me the most effective automotive on the market at present,” he stated. “I’m very completely satisfied and grateful for them to take action. I received a very good begin, I received previous George [Russell]. I believed George can be our largest competitor at present and that wasn’t the case; Max was, and he did an unbelievable job.
“We go in the identical as each weekend, desirous to win, desirous to be the most effective, desirous to be the quickest. I simply must not be an fool and do what I did.”
