F1 News: Lando Norris Calls For McLaren "Review" After Dutch GP - "Game Over"
Lando Norris claims he and the McLaren team "lost a lot more than we ever should have done" during the dramatic Dutch Grand Prix.
After starting from second position on the grid, Norris ended up crossing the line in seventh. The race was chaotic from the start after rain hit the track almost immediately. This led to various different tyre strategies being used by teams and Norris feels they didn't go in the right direction.
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During his post-race interview with Sky Sports F1, Norris commented:
“Not too satisfied. The second half of the race was good, I think we did everything we could, we undercut a few cars and we had a relatively decent race.
“But we just lost everything in the beginning with the decision to stay out on the slicks when it was too wet. We just lost a lot more than we ever should have done.
“So that was pretty much, not game over, but just that threw everything away that we worked hard for yesterday, so a bit frustrating from that side.
“But we fought back well, just we didn’t have the best of race cars today, it was too tricky in dirty air.
“We struggled too much in the middle sector and therefore we couldn’t fight, I couldn’t get past [Yuki] Tsunoda and like [Lewis] Hamilton could just do one lap and get past everyone.
“So plenty of things to work on, but like we said our weaknesses yesterday carried over a lot to today and things to work on from our side.”
Norris went on to add that the information was not clear enough and needs to be reviewed. He continued:
“It was just different information and nothing was just clear enough, something for us to review let’s say.
“After the first lap when I was second and I got overtaken so easily by Perez, I was surprised we stayed out in the first place.”
