Norris wants F1 to bin the rules on red flag tire changes

An outspoken Lando Norris wants Formula 1 to yo-yo the rules so drivers can transpiration tires without penalty under a red flag, pursuit a frustrating Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

The McLaren suburbanite was well-placed in sixth without a good first stint on soft tires and came into the pits under the Safety Car without Mick Schumacher crashed, taking on a set of nonflexible recipe tires that would take him to the end of the race. The pit stop dropped him to 14th, but he was set to regain positions when other drivers needed to pit without the restart. Then, however, the race was red flagged to indulge for windbreak repairs, providing a self-ruling stop for all those ahead.

“I’ve got nothing to talk about!” Norris said. “I’ll just say the rules should get banned, and they should bin the rules, they should printing delete a number of times until that line and paragraph is deleted and erased from history.

“I just got unlucky a lot of the time, the red flag ruined everything – basically everyone got superiority of me. And then plane with the crashes, the one with (Sergio) Perez, I was on the left and I got unlucky then and I couldn’t go right, then everyone’s like kamikaze and crashing into each other.

“Just a long race to score one point but largest than nothing, keeps me in the fight, so sunny day,” he widow sarcastically.

Norris moreover insists it’s not only a response to Sunday’s race in Jeddah, but drivers have previously complained of the self-ruling pit stop scenario that a red flag offers.

“It’s possibly the worst rule overly invented by someone stuff worldly-wise to transpiration tires under red flag.

“We said it last year already. I’m not taking anything yonder from Pierre (Gasly) but with the Monza race last year, like Pierre got to transpiration tires for free, I don’t know, I don’t finger like it’s deserved in a way.

“It’s just well-constructed luck and luck that doesn’t need to be given to someone and that’s pretty much what it is – luck given to someone. It just ruined our race. It feels like you do so much just to get it all taken away. It sucks considering the team did a good job. I thought the car was pretty decent. But it’s just crap, the rule ruins everything.”