“Clearly a little bit on the back foot in terms of overall pace comparing to Max, the first and second stint he would always just edge away that little bit. But they just seemed to make a lot more mistakes than what we did.
“They messed up their pit stop which is rare from them, but clearly a bit of pressure from their side and they started to slip up a little bit. But I felt like I drove a good race. I kept myself in the fight the whole time.
“It was easy to make mistakes but difficult to drive because of the windy conditions and things like that. I just feel let down. A lot of damage on the car, the car’s completely destroyed now so… Yeah, a shame. I don’t know.
“You want to keep driving, and if I got back to the pits in a better way I could have probably gone out and got some points, but the car was too badly broken. I don’t know what I’m meant to say. I did all I could, I gave a fair, respectful, on-the-edge battle, but that’s not what I got in return.”
Norris and Verstappen have long been known to share a good relationship off-track but, when asked if the incident is something that the two of them would talk about, Norris laid the blame firmly at his rival’s door.
“It’s not for me to say, it’s for him to say something,” he responded. “I did nothing wrong – he was the one in the wrong, so he’s the one that should say something, not me.”
