The Briton took two points out of Max Verstappen’s championship lead with the victory.
The Briton took two points out of Max Verstappen’s championship lead with the victory.Lando Norris admitted he did not deserve to win Saturday’s sprint race in Brazil which allowed him to take another three points out of Max Verstappen’s championship lead.
However, Verstappen was later handed a five-second time penalty for a Virtual Safety Car infringement, dropping him back to fourth. “I am not proud of it,” said Norris. “Oscar deserved it but we did what we had to do, so I thank him and the team. “But we both signed up for this. We work as a team, we get told to do, we both have a boss, and we work as hard as we can to help each other.”
“I would have preferred to have won but it is a sprint race and I don’t have much to fight for in the drivers’ standings. We knew this could, and probably would happen, and I am fine with it.” McLaren also had Verstappen to contend with after he swatted Leclerc aside for third with six laps to go. The Dutchman took a lunge at Piastri on the final lap but the McLaren man held firm.
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