McLaren group boss Andrea Stella insisted that an pointless yellow flag was the rationale for Lando Norris’s shock elimination from the primary a part of as we speak’s qualifying session at Baku.
On the again of a sequence of sturdy outcomes, there was big drama as we speak on the McLaren camp, with championship challenger Lando Norris failing to make it out of Q1 amid a second within the closing sector.
The Briton ran right into a yellow-flag section of the observe which was due to the slow-moving Alpine of Esteban Ocon. Which means the two-time F1 race winner will begin Sunday’s race down in seventeenth place.
Reflecting on his shock end result, Norris stated: “Simply everybody did their second laps and I did not so. I needed to carry [for yellows]. It’s what it’s, lengthy race forward, we’ve got some good tyres within the financial institution, I do not know.
“I am nonetheless hopeful we are able to get an excellent end result, the automobile continues to be fast. Just a little bit irritating however nothing I may do.”
Chatting with Sky Sports activities after the session, McLaren group principal Andera Stella defined his frustration with the flag state of affairs, claiming that the yellow flag was not crucial.
“The bitter ingredient is that the opposite automobile is behind the grid tomorrow,” Stella stated. “We’ll do our greatest to get again into the factors, minimise the influence, however clearly that was a really unlucky second for Lando as we speak.
“We have been discussing now with the FIA as to why a yellow flag was displayed at that second in time, which was extraordinarily pricey. The group did not say it as a result of it was displayed final minute and we checked proper now in our instruments and it’s really displayed as a yellow, so we have been in conversations with the FIA as to why that occurred as a result of the yellow flag is not crucial when there is a automobile is only a gradual automobile, it isn’t on a flying lap.
“Everybody tried their greatest I am positive, this time there was a state of affairs that ideally, and I feel by the rules, should not have occurred. We paid the worth however we do not hand over. We transfer on, we are going to do our greatest tomorrow to get some good factors.”
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