Lando Norris was among the many spectators in Berlin watching on as England misplaced to Spain within the Euro 2024 closing and certainly one of his Formulation 1 rivals was fast to rub it in
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Lando Norris has been issued a brutal reminder of England’s heartbreaking loss to Spain within the Euro 2024 closing.
The Three Lions made it back-to-back European Championship closing defeats final weekend as they misplaced out to Spain 2-1. Norris had been current three years earlier to observe Italy beat England within the earlier event and made probably the most of a weekend with out Formulation 1 motion to make his option to Berlin.
Norris was pictured hugging and commiserating England star Jude Bellingham within the stands after the ultimate whistle. However the McLaren driver bought no such consolation from his F1 rivals as he confirmed up within the Hungarian Grand Prix paddock.
In spite of everything, whereas Norris and his fellow Englishmen on the F1 grid have been gutted about their defeat, there have been loads of others a lot happier with the outcome. Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz are the 2 Spanish drivers on the grid who would have been delighted with La Roja’s success.
A photograph has gone viral on social media of Norris’ parking area on the Hungaroring, which has been defaced with a brief message studying: “2-1, Viva Espana!” Quizzed within the pre-event press convention, Alonso was fast to absolve himself of blame and mentioned: “No, not me! There may be one other Spanish driver. So yeah, not me for positive.”
Fingers naturally would have been pointed at Sainz given his sturdy friendship with Norris courting again to their time as McLaren team-mates. But it surely has emerged that the Ferrari driver’s supervisor and cousin, Carlos Onoro, is the one who left the cheeky message for the Briton.
Spain’s Euro 2024 success capped off a memorable day of sporting success for the European nation. Earlier on Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz had secured his fourth tennis Grand Slam success by beating Novak Djokovic within the Wimbledon closing.
Alonso declared himself delighted together with his nation’s sporting success and hoped to profit from the morale enhance. The Aston Martin driver mentioned: “The entire nation loved it for positive. Tennis, we had an unimaginable run with Rafa Nadal for a lot of, a few years.
“20 years within the prime spot and now with Carlos, so yeah, I believe we’re in good fingers there. He’s very younger, very gifted. I believe that the entire nation is having fun with each time he performs.
“And likewise in soccer, clearly, it is solely each 4 years, or each two years when there is a World Cup. It was a superb match on Sunday, actually loved. I needed to win this one as a result of clearly whenever you come to the race weekend once more and with all of the mechanics after which everybody within the storage, it is significantly better like this.”
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