Lando Norris and his controversial attempt to overcome Max Verstappen in Japan
The English tried to overcome the Dutch at the exit of Boxes and Punto was to lose everything. Then he started with the complaint on the radio and an unusual request for sanction.
Japan’s GP only generated yawn. The track alternatives did not arise, or arise (the overcoming of Lewis Hamilton to Isack Hadjar caused the only modification among the top ten with respect to the start grid). But suddenly, the highest moment of the 53 laps was lived. It was in the 22nd turn, when Max Verstappen and Lando Norris entered Boxes one behind the other to change the tires. The work of the McLaren mechanics was a second faster than that of Red Bull and that difference led to the pair on the street of Pits.
Max, impertérrito, remained in his line, through the center of the street. And Lando? We will have to write down the extensive collection that entails. It was maintained by the inmate and ended with the four wheels in the grass When they were already in the entrance zone. Unusual. Clearly, I would not be able to move on to the champion.
And the tantrum began by radio. “I forced me to go outside,” was Norris’s unusual message, more in search of an illogical complicity of the FIA to sanction Max than for something else. Verstappen, with peace of mind, only said: “He just got into the grass.” And Max was right.
Then, the FIA warned that the maneuver was under investigation. If there had to be a sanctioned, it was Norris. Finally, the entity lowered the blind to Asunta and decreed a classic follow.
After finishing second, Norris was consulted by the situation: “Max was ahead and is the last person who hopes a space, ”he said. The problem was that Lando was going where he shouldn’t. Already after the podium and seeing the maneuver, it was a bit more logical: “The output of boxes was exciting, the best of the entire race. He had the position ahead, I went to the grass,” he settled.
