Lando Norris jokes Oscar Piastri should "emulate Ayrton Senna" at Turn 1 to stop Max Verstappen at F1 Japanese GP
The McLaren duo starred in qualifying as Piastri claimed second place behind Verstap♍pen’s dominant Red Bull, while Norris was just 0.035s behiꦍnd his teammate in third.
When asked if they can do anything to prevent Verstappen from claiming his 13th win of 𝓀the season on Sunday, Norris jokingly suggested that Piastri could replicate Ayrton Senna’s actions at the start of the 1990 Japanese G꧂rand Prix.
The legendary Brazilian rammed into rival Alain Prost at Turn 1 t🐎o take them both out of the r♓ace and controversially clinch that year’s world title in the process.
“We’re going to try. Iꦜf he’s leading by Turn 2, t🔯here’s not a lot you can really do,” Norris said.
“I don’t know. If you want to emulate Senna, Oscar, into Turn 1, you can do that hopefully. It wo🦋ꦚuld be lovely for me!
“We’ll try. I think our pace is decent. It’s definitely not going to be as good as the Re🧔d Bull, but we’ll do our best.”
Asked the same question moments bef﷽ore Norris, Piastri, who impressed on his first visit to Suzuka, responded: “We tried our best at Silverstone so we’ll try and do the same thing, but obviously it’s going to be difficult.
“𒁏I think it’s❀ going to be a difficult race tomorrow. Very different to Silverstone in that regard. It could be a lot more open, I think.”
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