Asked after qualifying if it was a typical Baku scenario with the yellow flags catching him out at the wrong time, Norris sighed: “Yeah. It’s just that, really. The lap was easily good enough… Just a yellow flag, so I had to back off.”
Having cut Verstappen’s championship advantage to 62 points with a stellar run at recent events, Norris doubts he will have any chance of continuing that positive momentum on race day in Azerbaijan.
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Put to him that Baku’s lengthy start/finish straight could offer him opportunities, he replied: “Yeah, but I don’t even think it’s as easy as that, honestly. Following is pretty much impossible around here and overtaking is I think a lot worse than what everyone thinks.
