Lando Norris' four-word response to stunned Max Verstappen over alarming race footage

Lando Norris could not assistance but marque an X-rated remark to Max Verstappen erstwhile watching the replay of his near-miss with the partition during the Singapore Grand Prix

Lando Norris told Max Verstappen “I astir s*** myself” portion watching contention footage of his adjacent shave with the partition astatine the Singapore Grand Prix.

Norris delivered a ascendant show nether the lights successful Singapore, starring the Marina Bay Street Circuit from commencement to decorativeness to triumph Sunday’s race. It marked the McLaren star’s 3rd triumph of the play and closed the spread connected Formula One championship rival Verstappen to 52 points.

But the British driver, 24, was fortunate not to prolong large harm aft making interaction with the partition twice. One of those incidents came connected thigh 29 astatine Turn 14, erstwhile Norris locked up and overshot the corner, resulting successful him brushing his front-wing against the barrier.

Norris, runner-up Verstappen and chap McLaren prima Oscar Piastri, who claimed 3rd place, were shown replays of the near-misses successful the chill down country post-race. Red Bull's Verstappen, who was seeing the incidental for the archetypal time, was shocked astatine conscionable however adjacent his rubric rival came to crashing.

Verstappen exclaimed: "No way!" He past joked: "You should person released the brake a little, actually." Norris honestly pointed out: "I really s*** myself.”

His remark near Verstappen laughing, earlier Piastri chimed in: “Without utilizing curse words, however did you consciousness erstwhile you did that?" Norris joked: "Funked."

Norris admitted successful an interrogation aft the contention that helium had ridden his luck contempt his different superb drive. He said: “It's not that you are needfully over-pushing, sometimes it tin adjacent beryllium that you are conscionable chilling excessively much. Maybe it was a spot of both, I don't cognize what it is.

“It's tricky. It's inactive pugnacious retired determination and casual to fastener the tires arsenic I did. I inactive pushed, I didn't privation to person a one-second lead, I wanted to person the biggest pb possible.”

He added: "It was an astonishing contention - a fewer excessively galore adjacent calls. I had a mates of small moments successful the middle, but it was well-controlled, I think.”

Verstappen inactive leads the title with six races near successful the season. But the three-time world champion has not won a contention since the Spanish Grand Prix successful June, having won 7 of the opening 10 races this season.

McLaren, meanwhile, clasp a 41-point vantage implicit Red Bull successful the Constructors’ Championship. There volition present beryllium a one-month interruption until the adjacent contention - the United States Grand Prix successful Austin, Texas connected October 20.

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