Why was Lando Norris’ pole lap at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix sprint race deleted - and then reinstated?
In wet conditions, the McLaren driver posted a 1m57.940s in SQ3 to go 1.261 seconds quicker than Hamilton’s Mercedes, only to see the lap subject to an unexplained delegation.
During Sky Sports F1’s commentary, David Croft said: “What I think has happened here, is that Norris had a lap time deleted because we went off-track. They decided he had. They took away his next lap. “Basically, to highlight the rule; if you have a track limits violation at the final corner, what happens is - the lap is deleted, but also the next lap because you gain an advantage,” he said.
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