He accepts Lando Norris who makes it ‘difficult life’ for Checo Pérez
With a smile on his face, in fact he could not stop laughing at a joke that had been told before, the English driver Lando Norris said he will not make life easier for his rival Red Bull team, the Mexican Sergio Perez .
Interviewed by Sky TV after the Dutch Grand Prix, Norris, McLaren driver, referred to the collision that had with the tapatío Pérez in the curve a circuit of Zandvoort, the so-called ‘Tarzan’, where he closed the door outside the Red Bull competitor.
“I’m not going to make life easier for (Pérez), I want these points as much as he does. I gave him space, not much, but enough,” said the 21-year-old, who has already had a couple of incidents with Czech Perez in the season.
He claimed that the Mexican has “the best act” and that he should be later, but that he defends his position and competes equally against Pérez, Verstappen, Hamilton or whoever.
The action took place in round 70 of the 72 agreed. Checo Pérez came with soft tires and Norris had hard ones. It was the fight for ninth place among the riders occupying 3rd and 5th places in the driver classification. Checo Pérez went ahead in braking from the outside and when he tried to stay in that line, Norris, after checking in the mirror, moved the steering wheel to the left and caused a contact that was about to leave. out them both.
The act of Checo Pérez, said to have been born in Guadalajara 31 years ago, suffered damage to the side and this made it difficult for him to advance further in the classification of the race.
True to his casual style, Norris very amused by the atmosphere in the ‘corralito’ of the interviews said that in even Czech he could then pass another act.