Lando Norris admits he has “nothing to complain about” after a pit lane incident involving 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

The McLaren and Red Bull drivers found🉐 themselves jockeying for position at the exit of the pit lane after Lap 21 at Suzuka.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris eꦦnded up on the grass but t🌞he FIA stewards opted not to investigate the incident, after noting it.

Verstappen won the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Norris, with Oscar Pias🐬tri compl😼eting the podium.

Norris reflected on the pit lane🦩 battle: “I never expected to come out ahead of him. He had the right of line, the space, the position.

“I wanted to give myself that chance. But I didn’t expect him to give me any room, and he doesn’t hܫave to give me🐭 any room.

“Nothing to complain about.”

He later added: “The g🔯uys did a good piꦿt stop. It was our one opportunity to get closer.

“He had the position, and the right𝓀 to d🍎o what he did.”

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner also defended Verstappen’🐓s driving which kept ♌him ahead of Norris as they exited the pit 𝔍lane.

Lando Norris: McLaren ‘quicker’ but not ‘enough’

Norris is top of the F1 drivers’ championship with𒁏 62 points aft🐟er three rounds.

He is a point ahead of Verstappen, and 13 ahead of te🦩ammate Pia🐬stri.

Despite 𒉰McLaren’s status as F1’s quickest car, it was not en༒ough in Japan.

🐓“It was a tough race,” Norris said. “I felt that, at times, we were quicker. But not enough.

“The Red Bull was quick, Max was quick, they were good all weekend. We didn’t💟 💃have enough of an advantage.

“We wer𒐪e probably quicker, but Max being in clean air and not making mistakes was🅠 enough to stay ahead.

“Nothing to complain about but there are things to improve with the car. We were suffering a lot today in certain areas, compared to him. But no🌱thing we didn’t know before.”

Norris admitted he didn’t expect to catch Verstappen: “Really, not a lot. I was quicker in Sector 1. But the Red Bull is a lot quicker than us at slow-speed cornཧers.

“Even if I got close, staying close at the hairpin and the final chicane 💞would have been impossible.

“It’s just too d🍎ifficult to overtake here. Our strengths and weaknesses are in the wrong spots sometimes.

“We got away with slow speed in qualifying but, in the race, I was losing one-and-a-half ten✅ths in the hairpin every lap because the car isn’t at the level of the Red Bull.

“We have work to do. If we can do it, I c🔥an be happier. But we lost this race in qualifying. Max won it and deserved to w🅘in the race.”