How an 18-year-old incident triggered Norris’ ‘unsportsmanlike’ F1 penalty

Norris was penalised in Montreal for slowing down too much behind the safety car from the hairpin to the pitlane, thereby purposefully opening a gap to team-mate Oscar Piastri so McLaren could perform a double pitstop without Norris risking losing a position to Charles Leclerc.
Norris was slapped with a five-second penalty which perplexed him at the time, and two weeks on the Briton says he is …Keep reading