Norris defends the diatriber “F ****** ia” after the jeddah F1 crash

Lando Norris stands next to his own severe analysis after having crashed out for the Saudi Grand Prix and called “fucking idiot” to do so.

Having looked at the pace all weekend despite the admission of the lack of confidence by heading towards the fifth round of the season, Norris’ hopes to cling to his championship advance took a greater bump than his McLaren did it around 5 of the Corniche de Jeddah circuit.

He got out of the pole race – finally taken by Max Verstappen de Red Bull – having pushed too hard during his first round in Q3, telling his team compared to the radio that he was going well before qualifying himself as “fucking idiot”.

Questioned by Autosport if he stuck with his own assessment of the incident, Norris replied: “I don’t know, what did I say?”

Once he was told, he was optimistic about the accident, adding: “To meaning. Well, yes, I mean, I agree with that.

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“I should fight for the post and especially on a tower (first fast), I should not take some silly risks as I seem to have done. I have to go and see everything again, as I said. You know, not a guarantee that we would have been on the post, because Max seems to have done a good job.

“Red Bull was quick all the qualification, it was not a surprise. So it would have been good to be in this fight. I was well so far and I felt comfortable.

“But I mean, it makes sense, I shone. Again, I’m not going to be proud, I’m not going to be happy. I dropped, I dropped the team and the guys have a lot of work to do now to repair everything.

“So, yes, that’s how it is. I agree with what I said, but I’m still looking forward to tomorrow and I have to try to catch up today.”

Norris had spoken Thursday how he still had trouble adapting his driving style according to the MCL39 and that he left him in Saudi Arabia more confident than he would have liked.

His behavior came from a difficult weekend in Bahrain the last time, where he could only qualify sixth, was penalized for a false departure, then fought to finish third and cling to his slim advance at the head of the driver’s ranking.

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“I don’t know what happened, I have no time to look at it or see, it’s just a mistake, I suppose. I don’t know what I did, I was quite comfortable, I was pretty happy until then, the car was strong,” he said.

“I am disappointed, everyone is in the much more delicate team for tomorrow and much more difficult because guys have a lot of work tonight to try to repair everything. But it’s life, it happens on rare occasions, so yes, difficult.

“I have to look at the right side and hope that we can have a good race tomorrow, I don’t think it will be easy because I don’t think it’s very easy to exceed here.

“But we have a strong car, clearly not as good as we want because we are not on the post, and Max is the first, and George (Russell) is only tenth behind. So, it’s not as if things were sailing at the minute, so a great job trying to do tomorrow.

“I am happier (than Bahrain) but it is a very different provision, it is much more gray. The handle here is incredible. So I am happier.

“We tried to work on a few things, I had to work a lot on my conduct. It has nothing to do with that, it’s just a separate error. But the team does a good job trying to understand these things.”