German FAZ: “I should never have dared this maneuver” 009466

Behind the scenes of the Gilles Villeneuve racetrack of Montreal, there were two professional racing drivers who looked at the television cameras particularly pretended after the Grand Prix of Canada. Because what did not happen to them on Sunday, apparently they did not really know that shortly afterwards. Beiden, Ferrari-Pilot Lewis Hamilton, the record winner of Formula 1, and Lando Norris, the last year’s second in the McLaren, passed two fundamentals during the high-speed tour in the Sankt-Lorenz-Strom, but each other, but each other, but each other, but The now, each for themselves, they had to digest for themselves. Hamilton leans over marmot: “Shaking” one, Hamilton, built a wild accident. “I was reported,” said the forty-year-old, after his former Mercedes colleague George Russell was the winner of “that I ran over a marmot. That is shocking.” In fact, the pictures of the onboard camera of Hamilton’s Ferrari showed how the declared animal lover, without being able to brake or avoid, grasped the poor rodent at full speed. In the 13th round had strayed in the middle of the quick lane, the creature, the regret. What bad luck. Look, look: The racetrack of Montreal is the home of a number of marmots like this. Africa marmots colonize the Île Notre-Dame on which rodent life must be a bliss. Just when the Formula 1 car thunder over the artificially created river island, it always gets dangerous: the animals often get away with the horror, but no rule without exception. The seven world champion Hamilton whizzes on Sunday that he did not know at first how he suddenly subsided. His box helped him up: acute marmot damage. “I love animals,” said the Englishman, “that makes me very sad.” And his company car was also in the bucket after the collision. The Ferrari lost so much contact pressure, Hamilton needed up to half a second longer for a round on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. His race, no wonder, was at the devil. “There was a hole in the underbody,” he explained and said that his red racer had felt quite good until then. So Hamilton’s marmot day behind stable companions Charles Leclerc ended in sixth place. “A lot has to change,” said Hamilton about the situation at Ferrari, “so that we can fight at the front.” Norris: Manöver against Piatri “far too risky” better than the faded marmot, but certainly worse than Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris, who finally wants to become world champion this year. However, the one who doubts that the 25-year-old is suitable for the champion provided new arguments in Montreal. The starting place race on Saturday was miserable for Norris, who failed during his decisive qualification round and almost thundered into the barrier (team boss Stella: “He wanted too much.”). So he started on Sunday as a seventh, but seemed to limit the damage to fifth place. However, activate external content before Ultimo, so misjudged that he caused an internal team of a rear -end collision. Oscar Piatri, the McLaren colleague, which is leading the World Cup, sometimes with Karacho into the rear when trying to lease him fourth place. O hurt. “It was my fault alone,” said Norris at the finish line. In the cockpit, via radio, he had given himself a small sound and admitted the mistake that had been visible to everyone anyway. “I apologize to the entire team and also with Oscar that I tried something that was probably a little too stupid,” he later told the broadcaster Sky. Four laps before the end, Norris rushed the Australian Piatri about the Île Notre-Dame, he believed a gap on the home stretch-the pit wall on the left of him, on the right in front of him by the teammate. Activate external content too narrow to squeeze through, Norris dared to do – and crashed into the colleague of his colleague at around 300 km / h before he was able to sit down next to Piatri. “I thought,” said Norris, “he would drift a little to the right, so I thought I had a little chance of going to the left. But that was far too risky, especially my teammate. In retrospect, I should never have dared this maneuver.” And further: “I paid for the price for it.” “Lando is a very good guy” because while the Australian continued to go unanimously and this time not so overwhelming McLaren as fourth – behind Sieger Russell, Max Verstappen in the Red Bull and Kimi Antonelli in the second Mercedes – lost Norris ’Renner Form: The front hungry, the front wing in, the front wing in Ruberry, the McLaren remained smoking on the side of the road, Norris jumped out of the cockpit and sneaked away. What a setback. In the fight for the World Cup title, Norris escaped ten valuable points that would have brought him fifth place. For example, Piatri (fourth place brought twelve points) further expanded his league lead before the Grand Prix of Austria on June 29 (3:00 p.m. in the F.A.Z.-LiveTicker for Formula 1 and at Sky) and has created a stately upholster Later to certify in absence to “be a very good guy”. Whether he had said that if Norris had sent him into ruin? “False decision that shouldn’t happen” because it did not happen, did not arise, the question of guilt did not arise and McLaren got away lightly, the team quickly closed the ranks. That was also easy because McLaren boss Zak Brown had literally announced a collision of his two drivers a few weeks ago. It was “inevitable” and only “a question of time,” said Brown. Probably in a wiser. The analysis of team boss Andrea Stella, who rated the incident with what was required, sounded without leaving the necessary serenity. Norris ’maneuver called the Italian a” misjudgment “, spoke of” a wrong decision from a sporting point of view, which should not happen, but at the same time belonged to racing. “More about the topic of Norris with his immediate admission of guilt in Stellas had reacted in the spotlight:” We were very valued, “said the racing director,” that Lando immediately took responsibility for the situation. Team boss to apologize to me and thus with the entire team. ” Stella left no doubt that the almost disaster is discussed in detail internally again. “But,” he said, “we will continue to fully support Lando.”
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