Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes McLaren made a mistake by not telling168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris to give position back to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen at the F1 United States Grand Prix.

The closing stages of Sunday’s race at COTA featured a thrilling battle fo꧟r the final podium place contested by championship protagonists Verstappen and Norris.

After several failed attempts, Norris finally passed Verstappen at Turn 12 with four laps to go, but both drivers🐎 ended up running off track and into the run-off area.

F1’s stewards issued a five-second penalty to Norri🌱s, who opted t🥃o keep track position until the chequered flag, rather than hand the place back to Verstappen and have another go at overtaking the Dutchman.

With Norris only able to pull 4.1 seconds clear of Verstappen, he dropped to fourth behind his main title rival, who extended h🍃is championship advantage to 57 points over the McLaren driver.

“What I perhaps didn’t understand was it was clear there was going to be a penal🥃ty, or it looked pretty clear there was going to be a penalty,” Red Bull team principal Horner said.

“With the car advantage and tyre advantage that McLaren had at that point of the race, it l🍃ooked like he went to give the place back up at Turn 1.

“But there was some confusion there. If he’d have given the pla𝓡ce back immediately, he would have probably had enough pace to make the pass [again].”

Norris i⛦nsisted that he did the right thing by not immediately giving the position back to Verstappen.

“Considering Max went off the track – normally if you defend your position and you go off t🎶he track, you have to give the position up. In that case I was ahead, I kept my position because he needed to give it back, and that’s the way it is,” Norris argued.

“I think I did the correct thing, but I don’t mak🐽e the rules. Max drove well, it was a fun race between us, a good battle. He defended well, he did everything he had to do.”

McLaren were left outraged by the F1 st꧃ewards’ “inappropriate” interference, but Horner felt the incident was clear cut.

“They discuss these issues in particular corners in the bri🥃efings with the various stew👍ards and driver stewards and race director,” he said.

“So look, the pass was made off-track. We’ve been on the receivin♔g end of that.𒁃 In fact, here, I think, against Kimi [Raikkonen] in 2018 [sic, 2017].

“So for us, it was crystal clear thaꦕt the pass had been made off the track. So he should have given the place back. He chose not to. So therefore there was a penalty.

“S🎉o for us, it was very much a black-and-white scenario.”