Lando Norris blames “silly” mistakes for latest F1 qualifying blunder in Miami

Lando Norris failed 𝔍to capitalise on McLaren's strong pace with a number of "silly mistakes" in sprint qualifying.

Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren MCL38. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami Grand Prix, Miami, Florida, USA, Sprint
Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren MCL38. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 6, Miami Grand Prix, Miami,…

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris expl🥀ained that his "silly" mistakes in sprint qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix were a result of🍌 pushing "too hard".

Heading into SQ3, Norris𒀰 was the heavy favourite to t🍒ake pole position as he showed outstanding pace in the upgraded McLaren.

On his only soft tyre run, Norris made a number of mistakes in the opening part of the lap, losing out to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen by approximately eightও-tenths in sect♛or one alone.

This meant Norris could only qualify ninth for the Saturday sprint race, when he had the pace 🐈to take pole position.

It cꦯontinues a long ca✃talogue of errors from Norris, particularly in qualifying sessions since the start of last year. 

Norris was on course to take pole for the Qatar sprint before runni🦩ng wide at the final co🌊rner.

This allowed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri to take his firs♊t F1 win - something Norris isℱ yet to do.

Reflecting on his latest diffജicult qualifying session, Norris exp♚lained: “I just pushed too hard, as simple as that.

“The car was feeling ver෴y good. Just silly to be🐬 honest, a couple of mistakes in Turn 1 and a big spiral from there.

“It's a shame, the team has done a good job, the upgrades are working, so I'm happy ꦆwith everything, just not with one thing.”

Unsurprisingly, N🦩orris felt he was “one of the quickest” out on track in Miami.

“The pace was ꦕvery good,” he added. “Probably one of th𒁏e quickest So, disappointed with today but I will do my best tomorrow.”

Piastri managed to qualify sixth, but like Norris, didn’t quite manage to extract ไthe ma🐎ximum from his car.

Explaining his s𝄹ession, he said: “I think 🌸it was a really tricky for everybody. I don’t know if the track changed or we all thought the soft was going to be a lot better but my lap felt pretty terrible and it was P6 so I think everyone must have had a bad run.

“I think Lando did the quickest𓂃 lap on the whole in SQ2, so a bit strange but I'll take P6. It's gonna be tough for everybody I think, bu🐈t the tyres seem to be surviving ok, they are just very hot.

“Not tooဣ concerned, but it could be an exciting sprint. A few cars out of position. N𝓀obody has really had much consistency so it will be exciting tomorrow.”

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