Azerbaijan Grand Prix: McLaren team boss on what caused Lando Norris’s disappointing Q1 exit

F1 Baku: McLaren team boss on what caused Lando Norris's disappointing Q1 exitSky Sports

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00:00So we've been looking, Karun's been looking, trying to find it. Can you explain? Because

00:03obviously Ocon was on the track but he was a slow car. A slow car means that there is a white flag.

00:09Where was the yellow shown and was it misshown when maybe a white should have been shown? And

00:16was it Orlando that saw it and he saw yellow? Did the team say there is a yellow flag?

00:22The team didn't say it because it was displayed last minute and we check right now in our tools

00:28and it is actually displayed as a yellow. So we were in conversation with the FIA as to why that

00:34happened because the yellow flag isn't necessary when there's a car that, you know, it's just a

00:40slow car. It's offline going. So everyone tries their best. I'm sure this time there was a

00:49situation which ideally and I think by the regulation shouldn't have happened. We pay the

00:56price. We don't give up. Like I say, everyone trying their best. We acknowledge that. We move

01:02on and we will do our best tomorrow to go and get some good points. Yeah, I mean it wouldn't have

01:08made a difference had you gone out on new tyres on that last run if the flag would still have been

01:12there. But it was the fact that the first run wasn't quick enough that put Lando in that position,

01:16I suppose. Well, definitely today in Q1 it looked like the track had a lot of improvement. So

01:22apart from a few drivers, the first run wasn't necessarily sufficient unlike some other cases.

01:29The used tyres were good. Like Oscar does a 43.0 and Lando was exactly at the same

01:36kind of pace and Oscar's time was good for a P3 at the end of Q1. So I think the used tyres were

01:43good enough. We saw even in Q3 Oscar on a used tyre. It was a P3 at that moment in the final

01:51session of qualifying. So just I think Lando at the wrong time in the place in which there

01:58was a yellow flag displayed which ultimately wasn't necessary. Thanks very much for clearing

02:04that up. See you tomorrow. Thank you.