F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix: Lando Norris reveals how illness hampered race - “I didn’t eat for two days, I lost 3.5kg”

The McLaren driver didn’t turn up to Thursday’s media day due to food poisoning but drove well on Friday and Saturday. His race on Sunday saw him punished with a five-second penalty for colliding with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, before he retired with an electrical problem.
Norr🐠is detailed how awful he felt:“I w🙈as in a bad way. I’m a bit better [on Sunday].
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“I didn’t eat for two days,🅷 I didn’t drink for two days. I lost 3.5kg. I really struggled a lot.
“Everyone thought I was fine after Friday because I just did a good job but it was quite tওhe opposite.”
Norris explained driving in th🦂e grand prix while ill: “I di𝓡d start to struggle a bit physically, but then my race was over.
“I’m OK, I’m getti💙ng better every day, it’s just the last day t💜ook its toll on me.

“I could have a bit of food i🍰n me before the race, I could get some fluids in me which is p🌠robably the most important thing on such a hot day,
“I’m sure if I 🐈didn’t break down and I made the end of the race I’d be in quite a bad condition.
“There was just so much going on in my brain [on Friday].ꦕ I wasn’t getting out of the way for people very well.
“Just small things. I don’t think it co♌st me anything today, we were just very, very slow.
“Maybe on Friday in qualifying there were some little mistakes and just judgements, but I always felt when I wa𒀰s in the car 🐬and on my lap, especially a qualifying lap, I could do what I needed to do.
“But longevity [was difficult] by the end of the sprint race, I was in very bad condit𒁏ion.”
Norris is seventh in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 standings with one race remaining in 2022.

James was a sports journalist at Sky 💮Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.