FP1<\/a> pace-setter Norris was on a push lap around the Baku City Circuit when he drifted wide exiting Turn 4 \u2013 after a close call at Turn 2 \u2013 and thumped the concrete lining the track.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m in the wall \u2013 tyre\u2019s gone,\u201d Norris reported over the radio, before crawling around the rest of the lap and eventually parking up outside the McLaren garage.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media afterwards, Norris said: \u201cA costly one, especially here. It was feeling good until then. I\u2019d rather have this and push and find the limits, than not find the limits at all. [But it\u2019s] annoying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have liked to get some high fuel laps in, especially on these tyres \u2013 the softer compound compared to last year \u2013 but it is what it is, and I\u2019ll have to make up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cThe track is very different to last year, it\u2019s quite a lot quicker, and it\u2019s a softer [tyre] compound which we don\u2019t use that often. We use it at Monaco, Imola\u2026 I think that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m behind on the learnings now, but a scrappy session from both my side and Oscar [Piastri]\u2019s side. He seemed to be struggling a bit with the car as well, but we\u2019ll see what we can make up for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Norris touched on, team mate and championship leader Piastri had his own dramas on Friday thanks to a power unit issue in FP1 and brush with the Turn 15 barriers in FP2.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bit tricky, yeah,\u201d he said of his day. \u201cJust a bit up and down. I think the pace is there, it\u2019s just not the easiest to get the most out of it at the moment, so that\u2019s probably just the main thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried a few things in FP2, I\u2019m sure we will look back and see what we can change for tomorrow, but I think it\u2019s going to be a bit different with tyre choices and things like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s still a lot of positives from today, just a few tricky moments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris was left to rue an \u201cannoying\u201d meeting with the wall during Friday\u2019s second practice session at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-155059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}