{"id":275941,"date":"2025-04-07T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/he-max-drove-well-he-got-bit-lucky-lando-norris-terms-formula-one-championship-leader-max-verstappens-sao-paulo-win-as-lucky\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:44:14","slug":"he-max-drove-well-he-got-bit-lucky-lando-norris-terms-formula-one-championship-leader-max-verstappens-sao-paulo-win-as-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/he-max-drove-well-he-got-bit-lucky-lando-norris-terms-formula-one-championship-leader-max-verstappens-sao-paulo-win-as-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He (Max) drove well, he got bit lucky\u2019: Lando Norris terms Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen\u2019s Sao Paulo win as lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\u2018He (Max) drove well, he got bit lucky\u2019: Lando Norris terms Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen\u2019s Sao Paulo win as lucky\" title=\"\u2018He (Max) drove well, he got bit lucky\u2019: Lando Norris terms Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen\u2019s Sao Paulo win as lucky\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p>Three-time Formula One champion and defending champion Max Verstappen might have become the first Formula One driver since Kimi Raikkonen\u2019s 17th place start in the Japanese Grand Prix in 2005 to win the rain-soaked Brazilian Grand Prix starting at the same spot, but the Red Bull driver was termed as \u2018lucky\u2019 by pole position holder and second-placed in the point list Lando Norris. <\/p>\n<p>24-year-old Norris, who started on the pole position and now trails the Red Bull driver by 62 points with three races and one sprint race left, was under investigation post-race for breaching the start procedure on the second formation lap after a crash on the formation lap, and finished sixth in the race. <\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p>The rain-soaked race saw Verstappen benefitting from the race stoppage after the 28th lap with both Norris and leader George Russel pitting before the red flag and dropping places. Verstappen made use of the red flag to change his tyres and resumed without losing his second spot. <\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey [Red Bull] got lucky. A rule [changing tyres during red flag] no one agrees with, they agree with it today, but every driver disagreed with it in the past. Today it benefited them, it could\u2019ve benefited us if we stayed out \u2013 but that\u2019s a stupid thing to think. A bit unlucky today, nothing more. Disappointed with the result, it could have been better but we\u2019ll keep pushing. He [Max] drove well, he got a bit lucky!\u201d Norris told Sky Sports post the race. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Norris was fined 5,000 Euros by FIA for the breach on the second formation lap. With Verstappen having a lead of 62 points over Norris with three races and one sprint race remaining, the McLaren driver needs to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix to keep his title hopes alive with other permutations and combinations coming into play post that. Norris shared his thoughts with F1 TV about the red flag incident post the race. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, sometimes it just goes your way. Nothing we did wrong. Staying out was not the right thing to do, it shouldn\u2019t have been red-flagged, it was the crash in the end which caused the red [flag]. That\u2019s life sometimes, You take a gamble, it\u2019s paid off for them. It\u2019s not talent, it\u2019s just luck. Just a bit unlucky this week. A wet start is a bit of a gamble. It will go your way one day, the other day not. The left side was a bit better than the right side. That didn\u2019t change much. All of our position losses were under the red flag with the free pit stop for the others. It\u2019s unfortunate, nothing more. It was a tough day, I did my best. I\u2019ve had a lot of good races, it was about time something didn\u2019t go right.\u201d said Norris.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"iframe-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/wp-content\/themes\/indianexpress\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif\" data-lazy-type=\"iframe\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3bpvHLf742mnESxKBECzK1?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen, though, took a dig at the British press in the post-race media call.  During the Mexican Grand Prix, Verstappen had forced Norris off the track twice in opening stages with some British broadcasters questioning the Dutchman\u2019s driving. \u201cI have a quick question. I mean, I appreciate all of you being here, but I don\u2019t see any British press. Do they have to run to the airport, or they don\u2019t know where the press conference is?\u201d Verstappen said. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/motor-sport\/lando-norris-terms-max-verstappen-brazilian-gp-win-lucky-9653271\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Formula One champion and defending champion Max Verstappen might have become the first Formula One driver since Kimi Raikkonen\u2019s 17th place start in the Japanese Grand Prix in 2005 to win the rain-soaked Brazilian Grand Prix starting at the same spot, but the Red Bull driver was termed as \u2018lucky\u2019 by pole position holder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[21256,1097,57439,213022,213016,1429,213026,213012,213020,44869,70887,213004,213003,213005,1891,17640,1427,44870,213007,213010,213014,213018,213024,91576,213011,91575,4209,213008,213006,213009,213023,213015,213017,213013,213025,213021,213019,1858,1460],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275943,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275941\/revisions\/275943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}