McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says Lando Norris was simply unlucky due to multiple timing factors that cost him a chance of victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. Norris was leading by over 11 seconds when a safety car was deployed due to Logan Sargeant’s crash at Turn 4, having been comfortably the quickest car on track at the time and pulling rapidly away from Max Verstappen behind. However, McLaren failed to call Norris into the pits immediately, and Verstappen and George Russell were both able to stop and emerge ahead of Norris when he came in a lap later, but Stella said there were multiple factors that didn’t make the decision a straightforward one.
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