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Hibapress / Radio-Canada
Leaving first, the British George Russell managed his race perfectly to win the Canada Grand Prix on Sunday on the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit, ahead of Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and his young teammate at Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli.
However, behind Russell’s quiet race, the McLaren hosted the show. With less than 10 laps to do, Lando Norris tried to exceed his teammate Oscar Piastri in front of the wells. The Briton hung his front fin and finished his race in the wall.
It was stupid on my partrecognized Norris. The race ended behind the safety car.
Norris was disappointed in the interview area after the race. I did not think that I could exceed Oscar from the outside at the entrance to the turn 1. With hindsight I should not have tried anything, but I felt that he was deporting to the right, I saw an opening on the left, but it was far too risky. I am relieved that nothing has happened to him.
Result, Piastri, who was already at the top of the pilot championship, gives himself a small cushion in mind, with 198 points. Norris is now at 176 points, then Max Verstappen at 155 and Russell, 136, in 4th row.
Piastri was not about to formalize it. The season is so long, it doesn’t change anything. The gap could be filled in three races, let’s say that Lando wins three and that I finish second each time. I think that as a team we see that we must be better.
There is no animosity between the two McLaren drivers, assured Piastri. I did not see the video, I felt a little contact, but it is an unusual place to try an overtaking. Lando apologized, but I don’t know what happened. He took the blame.
Lando is a good guy, continued Piastri. It is his kind of saying what he thinks, whether it is positive or not about him, that doesn’t bother him. It is for the team that we can have frank discussions and that we can spend over this kind of incidents when things do not happen as we wanted.
