{"id":306250,"date":"2025-11-24T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306250\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:21:08","slug":"norris-did-what-you-should-do-at-turn-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306250\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris did &#8220;what you should do&#8221; at turn one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/max-verstappen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> said Lando Norris\u2019s aggressive start to the Las Vegas Grand Prix was justified even though he ended up losing the lead of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Norris made a firm move at the start of Saturday\u2019s grand prix to protect his lead from Verstappen, who started alongside him on the front row. However he then braked too late for the first corner, ran wide, and lost the lead to Verstappen anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen said he understood how Norris made the mistake given how little grip there was on the inside. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what you should do, to cover off the inside, but I think it\u2019s very easy to get caught out with where you have to brake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally in the start, you leave the grid and then you look in the mirror. But here, it\u2019s almost like you don\u2019t have a lot of time to look in the mirror because you immediately have to brake again. And it\u2019s quite slippery anyway, so I guess that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norris\u2019s error put Verstappen into a lead that he never lost. He said being free of the slipstream of other cars helped him judge how hard he could push his tyres, which was important due to the limited dry running drivers had prior to the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt helped, of course, to get into the lead in turn one,\u201d said Verstappen. \u201cI do think in the first stint we were all finding our feet a bit with how much to push or not, how much we had to manage, because I do think we were all quite close up until the pit stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we were just trying to get a good balance, because we didn\u2019t really get to have a good understanding on Thursday. It felt better than expected, I would say, already, on that compound. And then, when we got onto the hard compound, because we did quite a decent first stint it made the second stint a little bit easier. But even there, you also have to make sure that you don\u2019t overcook it with the tyre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miss nothing from RaceFans<\/p>\n<p>Get a daily email with all our latest stories &#8211; and nothing else. No marketing, no ads. Sign up here:<\/p>\n<p>2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/tag\/2025-las-vegas-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browse all 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen said Lando Norris\u2019s aggressive start to the Las Vegas Grand Prix was justified even though he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[173278,64,63,817,813,816,1737,825,85],"class_list":["post-306250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-2025-las-vegas-grand-prix","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-max-verstappen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}