Pushed on whether the team could have potentially scored a one-two result had the incident at the second chicane not happened – given that it allowed Leclerc through – Norris responded: “No, because… I mean, maybe.
“Charles won by two seconds in the end – the fact he got ahead probably gained him two seconds over the course of the race, so… Maybe, I don’t know. Charles just drove a good race, they did something with strategy that we would not be able to achieve today.
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“We thought of the one-stop, we were ready to try and do a one-stop, we just couldn’t achieve it. Our degradation was too high on the front tyres, and that’s probably a bit of a weakness from us at the minute is front tyre degradation.
“From rear, we’re very strong – I think that’s why we’ve been so good at other races. But today was not a question of rear deg, it was front deg, and we struggled just too much and clearly Charles and Ferrari were better than us today from that perspective, and that won them the race.
“But we were ready for that, I think we kind of expected someone else to be very good on tyres, and it turned out to be the Ferraris. So yeah, if there’s anyone I’d rather win, it’s the Ferrari around Monza, so good job to them.”
