The McLaren driver expressed his disapproval of his team’s decision not to initially pit for interme🉐diate tyres as ea▨rly rain fell during last weekend’s race at Zandvoort. 

When Norris did eventually switch to inters, it was too late. The Briton tumbled down the order an♉d missed an opportunity to potentially finish on the podium, having started second. 

Norris vented his frustratio𒈔ns about McLaren’s hesitancy to pit on Lap 3, with his race engineer Jose Manuel Lopez on the receiving end.&nb♈sp;

“So box mate, we’re too slow!” Norris꧑ s🍸aid, to which Lopez replied: “We’re faster than Inter cars.”

Norri🔥s responded: “What the f***? Are you st൩upid?” 

Speakin꧂g ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, Norris acknowledged he is guil🐬ty of letting his emotions get the better of him. 

“We just spoke about it a bit now and there’s always a few days of reviewing things and making s💟ure we look at things first. 

“When you look at it after, I always make myself loo𒀰k like an idiot and I get that, but the people that I speak to know that I never mean something like that of course. 

“We made s♎ome mistakes with our calls and our strategy and things like that. A bit of it was just emotions at the time. I always ꦺsound like I’m crying or moaning on the radio but I don’t know why. I hate it. 

“I feel like I’m always relaxed in the car but I’m always the opposite when I listen to💧 myself after. There’s just always discussions and things you are trying to tell them. 

"The information was not to the level it should have been, clearly. I guess it geꦗts a little bit frustrating at times. It will be reviewed and it d꧂efinitely won’t happen again.”

Ask൲ed if he feels his team ꧋radio comments are something he needs to work on, Norris replied: “No I think my team know. 

“People alwaꦿys judge things from the outside and like to make comments, but the team know how I work and how I say things and so fort♎h. 

“I think in that moment I was a bit frustrated with what I w🐻as getting told and some things like that. I’m not denying at times, and also in the past, when you are under pressure and it﷽ gets a bit stressful at times, and I maybe I don’t sound the most relaxed. 

“But a lot of the time I am and it maybe doesn’t come across that way, es⛄pecꩲially if you are on the outside listening to these things. But the team know how I work and when I’m performing well and when I’m not. 

“They know how I work, it’s as si⭕mple as that. As long as they know that and how they speak to me and how we interpret things, that’s all that from my side is needed. 

“From what people see on the outside, I care but in a way 🐎I don’t care because I’m just doing my job to the best I can.”