Norris on Piastri crash: 'I made a fool of myself'

MONTREAL -- Lando Norris said helium made a fool retired of himself aft crashing into the backmost of teammate and rubric rival Oscar Piastri astatine the end of the Canadian Grand Prix.

Norris slammed into the different McLaren arsenic they fought for 4th presumption successful the closing stages.

"Sorry," Norris said connected the vigor aft retiring from the contention from the damage. "All my bad. All my fault. Stupid from me."

Norris said the determination was ne'er on.

"I should ne'er person gone for it, it's my implicit hindsight thing," a downbeat Norris told reporters connected Saturday evening. "I thought helium was starting to drift a small spot to the right, truthful determination was an accidental to spell the left.

"Way excessively overmuch risk, particularly connected my teammate. Happy thing happened to him, and I paid the terms for my mistake."

When asked astir if helium felt it important to instrumentality ownership of the mistake immediately, helium said: "I do, due to the fact that our rule, fig 1 is to not marque interaction with my teammate, and that's what I did.

"McLaren is my family, I contention for them. Every azygous weekend, I effort and bash good for them, much than I often effort and bash good for myself. So erstwhile I fto them down similar this, and erstwhile I marque a fool of myself successful a infinitesimal similar today, yeah, I person a batch of regret successful thing similar that.

"I'm not arrogant of that, and I consciousness atrocious and I consciousness similar I fto down my team. And that's ever the worst feeling. Of course, I lone truly request to apologize to each of them and Oscar arsenic well."

The collision enactment Norris retired of the contention and means helium present trails Piastri by 22 points.

The incidental is nether investigation, with some drivers acceptable to sojourn the stewards connected Sunday to perceive if determination volition beryllium immoderate further action.

It besides meant the contention finished nether the information car, with Piastri holding connected to 4th presumption and sustaining nary evident harm to his ain vehicle.

Norris confirmed helium had already sought retired Piastri aft the contention to accidental atrocious personally.

The title person applauded Norris' openness.

"Lando is simply a precise bully feline and I deliberation it's successful his quality and successful his property to accidental precisely what helium thinks," Piastri said. "And if that's detrimental to himself, oregon if it's astir himself, past it doesn't substance for him and I deliberation that's a large prime of Lando.

"I deliberation it is simply a bully quality. I deliberation it's bully for the full squad going forwards that we tin person these conversations and spell racing similar this and person things not spell the mode we privation and get done them. So, yeah, that's all."

Although teammate collisions ever rise questions astir squad harmony, but Piastri downplayed the proposition Norris' mistake would pb to things unraveling astatine McLaren.

"I deliberation everything volition enactment the same. If it had been a clang successful a country and intelligibly we got it incorrect and excessively aggressive, past that's 1 thing. But it was a spot of an unfortunate incidental truly connected consecutive effectively.

"So, for me, I don't deliberation it volition alteration thing and I deliberation that's the mode it should beryllium due to the fact that yet we're some trying to combat for a satellite championship."

McLaren brag Andrea Stella said the incidental would not person immoderate antagonistic ramifications internally.

"We said a fewer times that it wasn't a substance of if, it was much a substance of erstwhile [they collided]. The erstwhile is Canada 2025. We ne'er privation to spot 2 McLaren's having contact, this is portion of our principles. We saw it today.

"This is conscionable the effect of a miscalculation, misjudgement from a racing constituent of view. Which evidently should not hap but astatine the aforesaid clip is portion of racing and we did admit that Lando instantly owned the situation, raised his manus and took work for the accident, and helium apologised to the team, to maine arsenic squad principal, to apologise to the full team.

"It is important the mode we respond and respond to these situations which yet volition beryllium a precise important learning point...it is simply a learning successful presumption of experiencing however achy the situations tin beryllium and this volition lone marque america stronger successful presumption of our interior contention and the mode we spell racing."