Nico Rosberg, the 2016 champion and Sky F1 pundit, criticized Lando Norris for errors he committed on his way to win the . While Norris beat Max Verstappen in dominant fashion to the chequered flag in Singapore one week ago, the victory was not perfect, as the former’s race could’ve ended in tears. Norris hit the wall, slightly damaging his front wing on one occasion, and after that he clipped the barriers with his rear right tyre, an error identical to that of Mercedes’ George Russell in the 2023 version of the race and which ended the Briton’s race.
Later, and while trying to pass back-markers, Norris ran wide off track but survived to take the chequered flag, 20 seconds ahead of Verstappen. Rosberg was perplexed by Norris’ errors while leading the Singapore Grand Prix unchallenged and told the Podcast: “It kind of baffled me a little bit what was going on there because he hit the wall twice. “Both were like really severe, almost race-ending moments where he was quite lucky not to be DNF,” he added.
“He went miles off the track in a hairpin, out-braking, but really not a small out-braking, like a massive out-braking. “And the other time he hit the same wall that George Russell hit last year, where he went crashing out on the last lap of the race. “And what you maybe don’t remember is he went off the track again when he was passing a back-marker, which was a Williams.
“So, there’s three moments here. And that’s so strange,” Rosberg insisted. W.
