Lando Norris accuses Sergio Perez of being penalized and missing second place at Austrian GP | Race News

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McLaren’s Lando Norris had mixed feelings on the Formula 1 podium on Sunday, happy to be third and driver of the day but angry with rival Sergio Perez and a clash that cost him a possible second place. The 21-year-old Briton started out in first row for the first time, but was fined five seconds after the Austrian Grand Prix commissioners ruled he had forced Red Bull’s Sergio Perez out of the race. track. Norris, who fell to fourth place but fought all the way to third, felt it was unfair. “He tried to go around the outside which was a bit stupid and he got off the track himself. I didn’t even push him,” he told reporters after the fourth podium. of his career and the third of the season. “You look at Formula 2 or Formula 3 or whatever category and people who try to go around the outside and don’t go into it end up in the gravel. is happening, ”Norris added. “So he took the risk, and I didn’t. He didn’t engage in his pass like he should have, and he got in the gravel. So I don’t think that was my. mistake – but I don’t do the penalties. ” Norris has now finished eight times in the top five in nine races and is fourth in the championship, three points behind Perez who finished sixth on Sunday. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said he had no major issues with Norris’ decision: “It was a tough race, it was wheel to wheel,” he said. added. McLaren manager Andreas Seidl said the penalty was undeserved. Perez, who was given two time penalties for subsequent incidents involving Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, said having to go into gravel ruined his race, but he accepted the blame for the subsequent incidents. “That’s not how I like to run and I’m so sorry if I affected Charles’s run,” he said. “I don’t feel happy knowing that I ruined a race for another driver.”

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