Lando Norris has avoided a penalty for the Miami Grand Prix Sprint race after being summoned to the stewards on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
Norris claimed the Sprint pole position, beating championship leader Kimi Antonelli to the top spot by two-tenths of a second.<\/p>\n
However, his achievement was soon clouded in doubt as the stewards flagged Norris for \u201cdriving unnecessarily slowly\u201d at Turn 17, potentially blocking Nico Hulkenberg’s Audi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Having heard from the driver, the stewards were satisfied that Norris did not need to be handed a penalty.<\/p>\n
In their verdict, they said: “Car 1 (Norris) failed to stay below the required time limit as stipulated by the Race Director\u2019s Competition Notes.<\/p>\n
“Car 1 was within the approved delta time for almost the whole lap until just before Turn 17, where he was suddenly passed by Car 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That then forced Car 1 to react to create a necessary and appropriate gap to set up a push lap.<\/p>\n
“The Stewards considered this an extenuating circumstance and determined that he did not drive unnecessarily slowly.”<\/p>\n
The ruling means that Norris’s first pole of the season stands and he will line-up P1 ahead of Antonelli and team-mate Oscar Piastri in third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has avoided a penalty for the Miami Grand Prix Sprint race after being summoned to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-407773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}