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 been deployed so debris could be cleared from the tra꧙ck. 

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 Sun꧟da🦂y’s race at Suzuka. 

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

“Ah he’s had multiple problems and another stop,” Norris’ race engi✱neer Will Joseph responded. 

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

To which, Joseph replied: “Or he’s doing it on pu𒆙rpose.”

Norris, who wentဣ on to claim second place behind Verstappen, said: “Yeah but he can’t be going this slowly.” 

After the race, Norris was still baffled by the incident.&nbs🐼p;

“I have no idea,” said the Brit𒁃on. “I don’t know what… he must have had a problem, right? 

“But the thing is you can’t overtake under the VSC unꦓless 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 just 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 shouting 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 time to Max [Ve꧂rstappen]. 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 do at the time.ไ”