The McLa💃ren driver expressed his disapproval of his team’s decision not to initially pit for intermediate tyres as early rain fell during last weekend’s♛ race at Zandvoort. 

When Norris did eventua♔lly switch to inters, it was too late. The Briton tumble﷽d down the order and missed an opportunity to potentially finish on the podium, having started second. 

Norris vented his frustrations about McL🐈aren’s hesitancy to pit on Lap 3, with his race engineer Jose Manuel Lopez on the receiving end. 

“So box mate, we’re too slow!” Norris said, to which Lopez replied:💯 “We’re fa🍸ster than Inter cars.”

Norris responded: “What the f***? Are you stupid?”&n🔜bsp;

Speaking ahead of this weeken🌱d’s Ital💧ian Grand Prix, Norris acknowledged he is guilty 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 thin🦩gs and making sure we look at things first. 

“When you look at it after, I always make myself look 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 some mistakes with our calls and our strategy and things like that. A bit of it was just emotions at the time𓆏. I always sound like I’m crying or moanin🍌g 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 discus𒈔sion✃s and things you are trying to tell them. 

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

Asked if he feels his t🌠eam radio comme🧜nts are something he needs to work on, Norris replied: “No I think my team know. 

“ꦆPeople always judge things from the outside and like to make com💖ments, but the team know how I work and how I say things and so forth. 

“I think in that🐽 moment I was a bit 🔜frustrated with what I was 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 doe༺sn’t come across that way, especially 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 simple 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 ne🐎eded. ▨;

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