Explaining Lando Norris’ “unsportsmanlike behaviour" penalty at F1 Canadian Grand Prix
It meant the McLaren driver’s P9 finished wasꦦ demoted to P13, so he miss♛ed out on collecting any points.
Th🌞e offence was when Norris came into the pits following George Russell’s🌳 collision with the wall.
The FIA Stewards essentia🌳lly believe Norris slowed down excessively to create a gap between🔜 himself and his teammate Oscar Piastri, so that he would not lose time by pitting afterwards.
The FIA ruled: “The Stewards reviewed positionꦛing/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry, team radio and in-car video evidence.
“During the Safety Car period the driver slowed to allow a gap to form between his team-mate in Carဣ 81 and him. In doing so he delayed the cars behind. There was a significant difference in speed between Car 4 and Car 81 between Turns 10 and 13 (approximately 50 km/h).
“Article 12.2.1.l of the ISC refers to ‘any infringement of the 🦄principles of fairness in competition, behaviour in an unsportsmanlike manner or attempt to influence the results ꦅof a competition, in a way that is contrary to sporting ethics.'”
Norris hit back: "It doesn't make sense to me. Three or four seconds behind? Eve🤡ryone quite often is. Itꦅ was too early to box for what we were planning to do.
"I'm surprised. It♛'s unfortunate because the rest of the race I was happy with.
"Of course, you go slow, quick, speed up, you want to keep✤ ജtemperature in the tyres so you go slow and open up gaps. I wasn't 10 seconds behind my delta!"
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a dec🌠ade covering everything from American sports, to footb💞all, to F1.
