Lando Norris joked that he should have more world titles than Sir Lewis Hamilton officially has after their thrilling battle at the second start of the 2022 British GP.
Lando Norris joked that he should have more world titles than Sir Lewis Hamilton officially has after their thrilling battle at the second start of the 2022 British GP.
After a red flag period caused by a terrible accident with Zhou Guanyu, Norris and Hamilton "traded paint" as they drove down the Wellington straight and ended up wheel-to-wheel at the Brooklands and Luffield corners.
The 22-year-old made a beautiful maneuver on the outside of the seven-time champion, before Hamilton finally returned the favor and passed the McLaren again.
Norris watched it all again on the big screen at the and described the thrill of racing past one of the best in the business.
"It was really good," he said. It's always nice when you can pass someone who is in a faster car."
"I made the most of it, I tried to take his pressure, but you couldn't fight too hard either."
As the Brit watched the overtake, he joked that he should be the most successful driver in the history of the sport.
"Do you think you are even better? All the British fans are really there... I was waving and overtaking," Norris joked.
"Look at that, beautiful, beautiful! Oh my God, I'm the one who should be an eight-time world champion."
"It was a lot of fun, it's a really cool track that provides for doing that kind of thing."
Norris was in P5 for most of the afternoon after Max Verstappen suffered damage to his Red Bull's floorboard, but Alpine's Fernando Alonso jumped ahead of McLaren during the final safety-car period when the British team stopped its driver too late, giving the two-time world champion track position. .
"We had to decide whether we were going to stay on the hard tires or stop for the soft ones," Norris explained.
"And we almost made the worst decision we could, we closed the second lap, so we allowed Fernando to pass and we also allowed him to make a free pit stop on top of us."
"If I had gone into the pits first, I would have been on the soft ones, he could have tried to stay out on the hard ones, and we would have been on the better tire that way, so we made the wrong decision ... or we made the right one, but too late.
"And that cost us today, which is a shame, but otherwise it was a very good race for us."
Daniel Ricciardo's other McLaren suffered another miserable day as he finished the race in P13.