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Norris says FP2 lock-ups 'just me being an idiot'

Lando Norris dismissed suggestions that his McLaren had been struggling for grip on the bumpy Circuit of the Americas track surface during Friday's afternoon practice session. Norris suffered a number of dramatic lock-ups during his flying laps in FP2 leaving him with flat spots on his tyres, but insisted that the problem had been entirely down to his own driving. "That was just me being an idiot, braking on the kerb, which you just never do," he told the media in parc ferme after the end of the day's track activity. "Rule number one is don’t brake on a kerb, so [it was] just me being stupid.” “It's not slippery, it's just the kerb is a kerb, so it's grated," he...
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