Norris seemed on course to land a stunning first victory having led the majority of Sunday’s race at Sochi but hಞe suffered late heartbreak when a ꦗdownpour in the final five laps turned the race on its head.

The 21-year-old Briton an🍬d Mc⛄Laren were left to rue a decision to remain out on slicks as conditions worsened, while Mercedes pitted Lewis Hamilton for intermediates.

In the end, Norris stayed out too long and dropped to seventh at the chequꦬered flag when he finally stopped with two laps to go as Hamilton went on to rack up his 100th career victory in a dramatic conclusion to the race.

McLaren tea🦋m principal Andreas Seidl admitted in hindsight it was the wrong decision.

“In these tricky situations it’s a communication between the driver and the pitwall using all the information we have available in terms of weather f🌃orecasts, what other cars are doing, trying to brief Lando and at the same time get the feedback from Lando on how the track conditions are,” Seidl said.

“Lando, with the information you get from us and how he was feeling on the track, felt good stayin🔯g out there on the slicks, and in the end we didn’t overrule him as a team.

“So that’s something ♈we need to look into to see what we could have done better, because of course in hindsight it was the wrong decision that we made as a team.”

While Norris had repeatedly in🎉sisted to race engineer Will Joseph that he wanted to brave it out on slicks, McLaren never ordered him to pit for interm🍸ediates, nor did it provide him an update on the weather.

Th📖e joi൩nt-decision between team and driver ultimately ruined Norris’s race.

“The driver has very limited information,” Seidl explained.“That’s why he ജcan only feed back what he feels on track, which he did.

“But at the same time, if we have firm information👍 that it simply doesn’t make sense to stay out, we always have the possibility to overrule.

“And that’s exactly what we need to analyse as a team, if there would have been any point in this decision process today where we simply should have overruled him because he obviously doesn’t have all the in💫formation that we are having.

"If we would have been crystal clear from the team side and convinced that it was 100% the right decision to 𒅌stop, we would have stopped,” Seidl added.

“In the end it was a close call. Of course🦹 it is easy to say afterwards it was the wrong one because that’s how it played outౠ, but I think it was quite close to deciding what was the right thing.

“We need to analyse if th༒ere was any information available that sh🅠ould have led us to make a clear call.”