The McLaren driver thinks it’s “foolish” {that a} lack of harshness from the FIA in coping with such rule breaches means it may be higher for drivers to get a five-second penalty for illegally leaping a slower rival they’ll simply pull away from, than lose time by getting caught behind them.
Norris’s feedback come within the wake of his team-mate Oscar Piastri shedding a place to George Russell within the Austin dash race after what the Australian felt was a “blatant” transfer by his Mercedes rival to move him off monitor and take a penalty hit.
Talking on the Circuit of the Americas, Norris mentioned that drivers had tried to hammer residence to the FIA in regards to the time punishment of gaining positions off monitor not being sufficient of a discouragement, however the message had not appeared to have gotten by means of.
“The factor I discover a bit foolish about it, is that these items have been introduced up so many occasions within the drivers’ briefings,” mentioned Norris.
“It’s a level we convey up each time and it is a level that George introduced up himself in Barcelona, the place, with the truth that you’ll be able to decide to the surface line in Flip 1, and simply form of overdoing it, you will get previous two automobiles and commit to only going off, like we noticed folks do in Russia, as effectively in T1 and T2.
“It is one thing you’ll be able to simply put together your self for. And I am fairly positive we got here up with a conclusion that persons are going to do it on function.
“We mentioned this precise factor. And we mentioned which you can simply do it. In the event you’re faster you may get previous somebody, and also you’re simply going to tug away 5 seconds. Like in Monaco, for instance, if you happen to lower the chicane.
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Lando Norris, McLaren MCL60, Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL60, Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull Racing RB19
“They [the FIA] got here and mentioned, ‘okay, we’ll do it, so it’s important to give the place again’, however now they’ve set the precedent of not even having to do this.”
He added: “So I feel there is a little bit of lack of consistency as soon as once more, which I’m a bit stunned by. There was fairly a transparent guideline of what they had been going to do when such a factor occurred. However clearly not….”
Norris believes that the very best answer to the issue is in demanding drivers give again any place gained illegally, or the FIA will increase the time penalty.
“If it is your fault, give it again,” mentioned Norris. “You took the danger of doing it, you have dedicated to doing it, you give it again your self straightaway.
“Penalties simply have to be extra harsh on the whole. Individuals are getting away with too many issues.
“You understand you block folks in qualifying it is three positions, however folks do not care about it actually. In the event you’ve obtained a fast sufficient automotive, you do not care about three positions.
“I simply really feel penalties on the whole have to be harsher and that is going to cease folks doing it. When you’ve three positions and a 5 second penalty like in the present day, it does not cease you.”