Lando Norris conceded that his retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix put himself and the team \u201cout of our misery\u201d but vowed to take the positives following a challenging day for McLaren, which unravelled after both Norris and Oscar Piastri started the race on the intermediate tyres.<\/p>\n
With rain having been forecast on Sunday in Montreal, conditions were mixed as the start time neared \u2013 and McLaren<\/a> were amongst a group who opted to bolt on the intermediates to begin with, a decision that quickly proved to be the wrong one.<\/p>\n Norris<\/a> had made a lightning start to take the lead ahead of the Mercedes<\/a> cars, but was forced to pit within a couple of laps to switch to slick tyres. This dropped him down the order, and his recovery drive was also hindered when he had to pit for a second time over reliability concerns.<\/p>\n Just as he was again starting to make ground, the Briton had to retire after reporting a possible gearbox issue, marking the end of a tricky outing at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.<\/p>\n Reflecting back on the events of Sunday, Norris explained of that early tyre choice: \u201cIt was just, if the rain shifted one per cent more, I think [that] would\u2019ve suited me nicely. It didn\u2019t, and it went maybe one per cent the other way and it\u2019s tough to know these kind of things.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously it was not a bad decision for Lap 1, like it worked out in a way, but at the same time\u2026 Well it was a wrong decision, so we have to accept that and learn what we can use with the information we had to make a better decision next time.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I also pushed for it myself quite a bit, so we take it on the chin and we tried to maximise the race after that, but we had some problems and we had a failure in the end which put us out so, yeah, put us out of our misery in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n