The McLaren driver caught a slow-moving Perez, who had already pitted twice after picking up damage in separate incidents with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kevin Magnussen, under a VSC which had b🎐een deployed so debris coཧuld be cleared from the track. 

It led to a confusing moment for Norris, who had been running around five seconds behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s leading Red Bull in the early stages of Sunday’s🔯 race📖 at Suzuka. 

“Does Perez have a problem? Because he’s going very, very slowly,” Norris asked over team radio as he caught a dawdling Perez in the firs𝓀t sector. 

“Ah he’s had mu𝐆ltiple problems and another stop,”𒁃 Norris’ race engineer Will Joseph responded. 

“Yes but I need to know if I can pass 🅰him,” Norris cont꧑inued. “I’m five seconds down. He’s just holding me up now. He must have a problem.”

To which, J꧃oseph replied: “Or he’s doing it on purpose.”

Norris, who went on to claim seco🤪nd place behind Verstappen, said: “Ye𒁃ah but he can’t be going this slowly.” 

After the race, Norris was𝐆 still ♕baffled by the incident. 

“I have no idea,” said the Briton. “I don’t know what… he must have had a pro﷽blem, right? 

“But the thing is you can’t ovꦬertake under the VSC unless it’s 🌳obvious the guy has a problem and I don’t know what was going on, I didn’t know if he had a problem, whether he was just backing me up.

“I didn’t know and I couldn’t take the risk of jus🌃t overtaking him. He was going so slowly and then when we get the flashing dash for the VSC ending, he went into first gear and then I was on the outside of him because he was going so slowly, and then he almost crashed into me.

“So I honestly have no idea. I was sh🌊outing in🥃 my helmet. I was swearing quite a bit, but just got… I was so confused, I didn’t know what I could do.

“I’m losing t🃏ime to Max [Verstappen]. The Ferrari guys were, I think, 1.4 seconds behind me after being I think 12s or 13s, so I lost 10 seconds. And I didn’t know what I could d💙o at the time.”