The McLaren driver caught a slow-moving Perez, who had already pitted twice after picking up damage in separate incidents with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen, under a VSC which had be🎃en deployed so debris could be cleared from the track. 

It led to a confusing moment for Norris, who had been running around five seconds behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s leading Red Bull in t♔he early stages of Sunday༺’s race at Suzuka. 

“Does Perez have a pro💙blem? Because he’s going very, ver🧸y slowly,” Norris asked over team radio as he caught a dawdling Perez in the first sector. 

“Ah 🌌he’s had multiple problems and an𓂃other stop,” Norris’ race engineer Will Joseph responded. 

“Yes but I need to know if I can 𝓰pass him,” Norris continued. “I’m five seconds down. He’s just holding me up now. He must have a problem.”

To whichไ, Joseph replied: “Or he’s doing it on purpose.”

Norris, who went on to claim second place behind Verstappen, said: “Yeah but he can’t be going this🉐 slowly.” 

Afওter the race, Norris was still baffled꧑ by the incident. 

“I have no idea,” ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsaid the Briton. “I don’t know🧜 what… he must have had a problem, right? 

“But the thing is you can’t overtake under the VSC unless it’s obvious the guy has a problem and I don’t know what was going on, I didn🐠’t know if he had a problem, whether he was just backing me up༺.

“I didn’t know and I couldn’t take the risk of just overtaking him. He was going so slowly and then when we get the flashing dash for the VSC ending, he went into first gear and then I was on the outside of him because he was going so slowly, and then he almos♍t crashed into me.

“So I honest🎶ly have no idea. I was shouting in my helmet. I was swearing quite a bit, but just got… I was so confused, I didn’t know what I could do.

“I’m losing 🃏time ꦦto Max [Verstappen]. The Ferrari guys were, I think, 1.4 seconds behind me after being I think 12s or 13s, so I lost 10 seconds. And I didn’t know what I could do at the time.”