Former F1 team manager Peter Windsor has questioned 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris’ decision to commit to McLaren so quickly, statingꦚ “he didn’t need to do tha🅺t”.

McLaren announced Norris’ new multi-year deal just a week before 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s bombshell switch to Ferrari was confirmed.

It means McLaren have Norris and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri locked in as their drivers until at the end of 2026 at the earliest, while ensuring their prized ཧassets are under contract at Woking.

It’s likely McLaren CEO Zak Brown might have known about Hamilton’s potential move ✅to Ferrari, explaining why he was keen to sign Norris on a new deal to ꦐresist potential interest from Mercedes or Red Bull.

Speaking on his personal YouTube channel, Windsor - who was team manager for Williams and Ferrari in the past - scrutinised Norris’ decision to sign another new deal💙 with McLaren so hastily.

“Nobody’s talking about this, but why did he rush into signing such a long-term contract with McLaren now?,” Windsor s༺aid. “He didn’t need to do t🍌hat.

“It was obvious that McLaren would want to keep him because [McLaren chief executive] Zak Brown’s been supporting him and he’s been part of the Zak Brown thing going back to Formula 3, so that was never going to go away. But 🎐there were potentially going to be options at Mer🌃cedes, Ferrari and maybe Red Bull.

“So if you’re Lando Norris – who’s on everybody’s lips as one of the great stars of the future and you’re a good guy and you race well – why wouldn’t you have kept your options open f✨or at least three or four months until Monaco? Why sign now? It hasn’t worked out very well for him, in my opinion.

“He’s got a nice deal with McLaren, but he♎’s still got Oscar Piastri – who isn’t slow – in the other car and he’s now got no chance 🤪of getting the Mercedes drive or the Red Bull drive.”

Windsor is convinced Red Bull will opt to sign 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon again as Perez’s replacement, claiming the 💃Thai driver has signed a three-year deal.

“It’s going𝐆 to go to Alex Albon. If you’re Lando Norꩲris, you’re thinking: ‘I’m better than Albon, surely, and it looks like he’s going to get the Red Bull drive,” he added.

“I find that a really odd bit of planning. A♛ll credit to Zak Brown for pushing Lando into sig🐭ning as early as he has.

“That’s all I can assume, that Zak made it one of his missions of the winter 🅠to get Lando signed up and he’s got him.

“If I was Lando and I’d followed my manager’s advice, I w🌠ouldn’t be very impꩲressed, I have to say.

“Why did he do that? Why did he rush into it like that? He doesn’t know how it’s goin🐲g to wo💧rk out this year.”