Lando Norris, McLaren Formula 1 driver, showed his frustration to the team over radio calls at Monaco Grand Prix. He believes that he and team need to revisit their F1 strategy.
Norris made first pit stop for changing wets to intermediate tyres. He latter boxed for hard-compound slicks, which cost him position to George Russel. The Mercedes’ driver boxed a lap earlier and gained position over him.
Mick Schumacher dealt a blow to barrier making an end to Haas participation at Monaco GP. Norris resumed the race with same hard tyres, which Ferrari also chose to stay on. While George Russell and drivers following him opted for new mediums.
Norris had to settle for sixth place for the remainder of the race. Team turned down his wish to engage for fifth place in a bid to save tyres.
The British showed his frustration to team for being the duck. Team communicated to him that Fernando Alonso behind him was keeping everyone at bay.
Norris said: “I’m obviously under no threat from behind, right? So surely I can just push now and try and make him make a mistake ahead? If you don’t want me to push what the hell am I meant to do, just sit here?”
Later, team allowed him to push but “the key thing would be if rain came towards the end that we had some rubber left on the tyre to deal with it.”
Further down the race, Norris insisted for fresh medium tyres. The team nodded and he boxed for fresh tyres on lap 51, while maintaining his position on the outlap.
He then went for extra point on new tyres and eventually made gains. He finished right on Russell’s tail.
“It was a good race,” Norris said after the flag. “Although we lost one position to the Merc that happens sometimes in these conditions. You can take your risk of going one lap earlier. But it is a risk, sometimes you’ll lose from it, sometimes you gain, and today they gained.
“So, fair play to them, George did a good job as well. But we sort of made the most of it otherwise, with the fastest lap and the pace at the end.
“I think we may be lacking a little bit of race pace in the tyre preservation and things, I don’t think we’re in the best position with all of this. But apart from that a good race, good points, which I’m happy with.”
