Lando Norris has criticised F1’s monitor limits guidelines following the US Grand Prix.
When working behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc within the battle for second place on the Circuit of the Americas, Norris picked up three warnings for monitor limits.
In F1, a driver receives a black-and-white flag after the third strike for monitor limits.
A fourth offence leads to a five-second time penalty.
Norris managed to keep away from a fourth strike by driving extra conservatively throughout the the rest of the race.
Certainly one of Norris’ three warnings got here throughout his battle with Leclerc, the place he was pushed barely off the monitor by the Ferrari driver.
Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris
Norris was sad with the present monitor limits rules, labelling them as “one of many silliest guidelines that now we have”.
“I imply, the locations which had been straightforward to go off had been Flip 9 over the crest of the hill, after which the final two corners,” Norris stated.
“I feel I used to be on three strikes by like lap 10. So I didn’t put myself in the most effective place. However then one in every of my strikes was as a result of I used to be racing,” Norris defined throughout the post-race press convention.
“You already know, I feel that’s one of many silliest guidelines that now we have — we’re invited to try to race, however should you race an excessive amount of, you get a penalty for it. And I obtained a monitor limits [strike] for making an attempt to go across the outdoors and dropping time to Charles.
“So, doesn’t actually make a lot sense by way of going racing. However it undoubtedly made my life that little bit trickier, particularly Flip 19, with the wind, like Max stated, it was fairly inconsistent.
It’s tough to simply be all the time on the restrict and never make errors — which I clearly made a pair too lots of, too early on. However yeah, somewhat bit extra cautious on the finish as a result of I knew I couldn’t afford a penalty. However I took the dangers I wanted to.”
Is the momentum with Norris?
Norris’ P2 end at COTA places him simply 14 factors behind teammate Oscar Piastri with 5 rounds to go.
Since his DNF on the Dutch Grand Prix, Norris has completed forward of Piastri at 4 consecutive occasions.
The US GP was paying homage to 2024, the place Norris had a big edge over Piastri pace-wise.
The F1 championship chief completed a disappointing fifth, keeping off Mercedes’ George Russell within the closing laps.
