McLaren driver Lando Norris finished a disappointing seventh place despite starting the race from pole position.
Norris was leading for much of the Russian Grand Prix but things didn’t go well in the final laps of the race as rain pounded the circuit. As Mercedes was bringing Lewis Hamilton in, Land Norris opted to stay out in the track in slicks. Although he did not want to come in either, but it was the team at fault for having no information for Norris.
According to Ralf Schumacher, the team made a very huge mistake and Norris missed the victory because the McLaren weatherman did not provide information to the driver which could have forced him to pit.
”The fault lay with the McLaren weatherman. Team boss Seidl said to Sky that they had assumed light rain and that Norris had therefore been left out. There’s nothing the driver can do about that. If he had gone against his team, it probably would have been different, but he just didn’t have the information that the team has. But his crew just had the wrong information”, says Schumacher in his column for Sky Germany.
“I would have brought him in one lap after Hamilton to at least bring home second place. Even a slightly damp track makes it much harder for the driver to drive. A few splashes don’t matter, but when it’s wet all over the surface, the slicks lose all grip, it’s like driving on soap”, the German concludes.
