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    Lando Norris Confesses He Looks like a ‘Loser’ After Botched Q3 Lap at Azerbaijan GP

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    By Aditya Pandya,FirstSportz

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    Lando Norris Confesses He Looks like a ‘Loser’ After Botched Q3 Lap at Azerbaijan GP

    The Azerbaijan GP Qualifying was extremely eventful with multiple yellow and red flags. Many drivers crashed out of their cars and lost a lot of ground in terms of starting position for Sunday. While Oscar Piastri binned his car into the wall, causing him to start from P9, Lando Norris did not fare much better either. Norris could only manage a P7 start as a botched strategy call caused him to lose out a lot and look like a loser.

    McLaren were the first ones to release both their drivers in the Q3 session, which turned out to be their worst decision at the Azerbaijan GP weekend. Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri could’ve fought for the pole position if it weren’t for the shocking contingencies at Baku. Now, Norris reflected on the blunders in decisions that the team took that ruined both drivers’ chances to shine in the Qualifying session.

    Lando Norris accepted that it was a mistake from his and McLaren’s side to come out of the pit box ahead of the other drivers. Norris insisted that if the situation was different and the cautions and flags came out behind the McLaren drivers, the situation might have been different. The Briton noted that he and his team would have looked like the heroes if they had lucked out with the red and yellow flags.

    However, as depicted by the events, Lando Norris missed out a lot because of the flags, and he looked like a loser; the rivals looked like heroes, just because they decided to come out of the pits later. Regardless, the 25-year-old accepted that this was the price he had to pay sometimes, keeping in mind the risks one had to take at a tricky circuit like the Baku City Circuit. Norris will start the race from P7 and will have to work extremely hard to move up the pecking order.

    I think it was mistake from my side, from our side, to go out the pit lane first. It couldn’t have been – if there was a yellow flag further back or a red, we would have looked like the heroes and everyone else would have looked like losers. Now I kind of look like the loser and them heroes, but it’s the price you pay sometimes around here and the risks you’ve got to take
    Lando Norris said in a post-session interview

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