🗣️'It's a bit of a shame that we are involved in this setting of a new precedent.' McLaren F1 boss Andrea Stella believes that the penalty applied to Lando Norris in the Canadian GP reflects a 'new reference' from the FIA for such situations ⬇️
McLaren Formula 1 boss Andrea Stella believes that the penalty applied to Lando Norris in the Canadian Grand Prix reflects a “new reference” from the FIA for such situations.Stella said the team was “very surprised” that Norris was penalised for unsportsmanlike behaviour after being deemed to have created a gap to his team-mate Oscar Piastri prior to a double-stacked pit stop.
However in this case Norris was reported for going too slowly on the track on the run from the hairpin back to the pit entry, thus holding up Alex Albon, who was just behind him and also intending to stop. The stewards had the option to invoke the driving unnecessarily slowly rule, but instead, they referenced the International Sporting Code and the section that reads “any infringement of the principles of fairness in competition, behaviour in an unsportsmanlike manner or attempt to influence the results of a competition, in a way that is contrary to sporting ethics”.
“There's a possibility that the stewards want to set new references. We carry on discussing with them. “We understand the position of the stewards. We understand that they may want to set a precedent so that there's a kind of new way of interpreting the way you have to drive under a safety car.
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