Norris Gets To 'live That Feeling' Of Being Silverstone Winner

Lando Norris did not fto a trim chemoreceptor dampen his celebrations aft winning his first British Grand Prix.

Norris mightiness extremity up pinch a 2nd scar connected his nose, to lucifer 1 caused by a solid trim past year, aft a photographer fell disconnected nan pit-wall barriers and knocked nan McLaren driver's winner's trophy into his look arsenic he was trying to observe his Silverstone triumph pinch nan fans.

But a small while later he was up connected nan instrumentality stage, 2 strips of aesculapian portion connected his injury, pinch his team-mate Oscar Piastri and McLaren main executive serviceman Zak Brown.

Norris did 3 'shoeys', nan ceremony wherever a victor drinks champagne retired of his footwear brought to Formula 1 from Australian athletics by his erstwhile team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, and Piastri and Brown followed suit.

It was nan slightest he - and they - deserved aft a demanding, incident-packed, intensely difficult title successful perpetually changing conditions betwixt bedewed and dry, which Piastri would person won but for a arguable punishment for what was adjudged a safety-car infringement.

Piastri will beryllium stewing complete that 1 for a while, but while Norris inherited nan win, location was small to take betwixt them each weekend. And nan Briton was pressing Piastri difficult astatine nan clip nan Australian pitted for tyres for nan last clip and served nan penalty.

Both had driven exceptional races, successful a different people from nan remainder of nan field, successful a car that looked arsenic awesome arsenic it has done each season.

"Eventful race," Norris, 25, said. "It intends a immense amount. Being connected apical successful your location title is very, very special."

Norris first started watching F1, he said, erstwhile Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso were driving metallic McLarens astatine Silverstone successful 2007. He recalled that, arsenic good arsenic Hamilton's superb triumph successful nan bedewed successful 2008.

And now, pinch Hamilton and Alonso still successful nan field, Norris had taken his ain triumph successful a metallic - well, partially, anyway, astatine slightest for this play - McLaren.

"Lewis won, and I sewage that image of him going astir and seeing each nan fans opinionated up, and that image of what an ambiance successful Silverstone is like, and dreamed of that for many, galore years," Norris said.

"Today I sewage to unrecorded that emotion myself and spot it done my ain eyes. So beautiful amazing, beautiful special. A batch of people, from my friends and family, my brother, my sisters, my mom, my dad, my dad's parents.

"Every personification that I could person present is here. So, yeah, much typical than ever, 100%. And reliable title to do it successful arsenic well."

The triumph reduced his shortage to Piastri successful nan title to 8 points, and it was nan first clip he has ever won 2 races successful a row. But he was wary of talking astir nan meaning of it beyond itself.

"You tin ever people it arsenic momentum aliases whatever," he said. "I don't know. It's immoderate you want to judge successful nan extremity of nan day. I deliberation it's still conscionable 1 title astatine a time.

"I springiness my in installments to Oscar astatine nan aforesaid clip because he drove an highly bully race.

"It's 2 wins, but they've not travel easy by immoderate means. We've had bully fights, but they're beautiful strenuous, exhausting weekends because you're fighting for hundredths and thousandths, and you're fighting for perfection each convention and I'm against immoderate beautiful bully drivers. So, it takes a batch retired of you, particularly erstwhile you person a title for illustration today.

"I've had 2 bully weekends and, of course, I would emotion to proceed that momentum, but it still requires much consistency. Two weekends doesn't mean thing otherwise. And I conscionable request to support it up and support moving hard."

The events of nan time were demanding connected everyone, but nan measurement nan title turned was, according to McLaren squad main Andrea Stella, "very harsh" connected Piastri.

Piastri was penalised for braking difficult successful nan mediate of nan consecutive arsenic he prepared for nan restart aft nan last 1 of 3 information car periods. This, successful nan stewards' view, "resulted successful (Max Verstappen's Red Bull) having to return evasive action to debar a collision".

Piastri was furious. But, wary of nan stance nan FIA is taking astatine nan infinitesimal connected drivers speaking retired and not wanting to consequence a further punishment aliases a fine, he kept his remarks good nether power afterwards.

"Apparently you can't brake down nan information car immoderate more," he said. "I mean, I did it for 5 laps earlier that. Again, I'm not going opportunity excessively overmuch till I get myself successful trouble."

Piastri was bemused by nan penalty, because each drivers cognize nan leader's actions dictate things for those down successful this benignant of situation, moreover if location are rules to follow.

The rumor seemed to beryllium that he had driven successful this measurement aft nan information car had switched its lights off, nan constituent astatine which nan rules opportunity he must "proceed astatine a gait which progressive nary erratic braking nor immoderate different manoeuvre which is apt to endanger different drivers".

Piastri said: "I deed nan brakes. At nan aforesaid clip I did that, nan lights connected nan information car went out, which was besides highly late. And past obviously, I didn't accelerate because I tin power nan gait from there.

"I didn't do thing otherwise to my first restart. I didn't spell immoderate slower. I tin only remark connected what I felt I did, which I felt was good wrong nan rules, and I did it erstwhile already successful that race. So, yeah. I don't really get it. I'll spell person a look back."

The opposition pinch nan result of a very akin incident successful Canada 2 races agone betwixt Mercedes' George Russell and Verstappen was notable.

In Montreal, aft nan stewards took nary action, Red Bull lodged a protest, but it was dismissed retired of hand.

Piastri said: "Going backmost to Canada, I deliberation he had to evade much location than he did today. So, yeah, I'm a spot confused to opportunity nan least."

There was besides nan emotion wrong McLaren that Verstappen whitethorn person 'gamed' nan strategy by exaggerating really overmuch it affected him.

"I don't deliberation he had to evade me," Piastri said. "I deliberation he managed nan first time."

Team main Andrea Stella said: "We'll person to spot besides if different competitors benignant of made nan business look worse than what it is.

"Because we cognize that arsenic portion of nan title car, immoderate competitors decidedly there's besides nan expertise to make others look for illustration they are causing terrible infringement erstwhile they are not."

Verstappen said: "The point is that it happened to maine now a fewer times, this benignant of scenario. I conscionable find it unusual that abruptly now Oscar is nan first 1 to person 10 seconds first."

Was that because because location was nary quality to what Russell did successful Canada?

"Well, to nan stewards, yes," Verstappen said.

The extremity consequence was that Norris has now moved himself connected to 4 wins for nan season, 1 short of Piastri.

"I felt for illustration I drove a really beardown race," Piastri said. "Ultimately, erstwhile you don't get nan consequence you deliberation you deserve, it hurts, particularly erstwhile it's not successful your control.

"I will usage nan vexation to make judge I triumph immoderate much races later."

Both person 2 weekends disconnected to reset and refresh earlier conflict is rejoined astatine nan Belgian Grand Prix, nan commencement of nan 2nd half of nan season.