{"id":27519,"date":"2024-12-02T06:07:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=27519"},"modified":"2024-12-02T06:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:07:58","slug":"norris-penalty-in-qatar-very-concerning-says-andrea-stella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/12\/02\/norris-penalty-in-qatar-very-concerning-says-andrea-stella\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris penalty in Qatar “very concerning” says Andrea Stella"},"content":{"rendered":"

McLaren’s Andrea Stella disagrees with the decision to award Lando Norris<\/a> a 10-second stop-and-go penalty at the Qatar GP. Stella believes that Norris was excessively punished for ignoring yellow flags on the start\/finish straight.<\/p>\n

Norris penalty deals significant blow to McLaren in battle against Ferrari<\/h2>\n

For the majority of the Qatar GP, McLaren were on track to extend their advantage over Ferrari in the Championship.<\/p>\n

Norris and Piastri were running 2nd and 3rd before the first Safety Car. Until that point, Leclerc<\/a> and Sainz had spent most of the race lagging behind.<\/p>\n

A puncture for Carlos Sainz<\/a> only worsened the dilemma for Fred Vasseur’s team, who were lacking pace relative to the SF-24 all weekend.<\/p>\n

However, Lando Norris was hit with a massive 10-second stop and go penalty for failing to slow down under yellow flag conditions.<\/p>\n

It was Max Verstappen who first noted that Norris didn’t appear to have slowed down when he should have.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38, 1st position, and Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, 2nd position, in Parc Ferme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stella: Norris penalty was out of proportion<\/h4>\n

The British driver went from 2nd to well outside of the top 10. Norris could recover to 10th place, also setting the fastest lap to claim a second point.<\/p>\n

According to Andrea Stella, the FIA were excessively harsh in their decision.<\/p>\n

“I’m acknowledging that, checking the data, Lando did not slow down,”<\/em> he told the media.<\/p>\n

“But the lack of any specificity and proportion is very concerning. And is also a factor that could have a decisive impact on the championship.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s definitely material that the FIA should consider very seriously if we want fairness to be part of going racing in Formula 1.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Considering how tightly contested this year’s Championship battle has been, McLaren<\/a> will be understandably frustrated by the Qatar GP outcome.<\/p>\n

Whilst they still have a 21-point gap over Ferrari<\/a>, the Woking squad would have preferred to have a larger advantage.<\/p>\n

Norris’ penalty keeps Ferrari within striking range – especially if McLaren suffer a DNF.<\/p>\n

Ferrari are certainly capable of securing a 1-2 finish in Abu Dhabi, even if their performance has dipped slightly in the last two rounds.<\/p>\n

In any case, despite McLaren’s dissatisfaction, there are still well-positioned to secure their first constructors title this 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McLaren’s Andrea Stella disagrees with the decision to award Lando Norris a 10-second stop-and-go penalty at the Qatar GP. Stella believes that Norris was excessively punished for ignoring yellow flags on the start\/finish straight. Norris penalty deals significant blow to McLaren in battle against Ferrari For the majority of the Qatar GP, McLaren were on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":27521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2220,465,66,1529,2415],"class_list":["post-27519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-2024-formula-1-season","tag-f1-news","tag-mclaren","tag-qatar-gp","tag-stella"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27527,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519\/revisions\/27527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}