The move handed a five-second time penalty to Norris which dropped him to fourth place after finishing third with the gap back to Verstappen standing at four seconds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I mean clearly I didn\u2019t give the position back because we thought we were in the right \u2013 clearly we weren\u2019t. I still think we were, considering Max went off the track \u2013 normally if you defend your position and you go off the track, you have to give the position up. In that case I was ahead, I kept my position because he needed to give it back, and that\u2019s the way it is,\" Norris explained.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I think I did the correct thing, but I don\u2019t make the rules. Max drove well, it was a fun race between us, a good battle. He defended well, he did everything he had to do,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc won the race ahead of his teammate Carlos Sainz to gain the maximum points for the team on the weekend. But it was not the ideal weekend for McLaren as both cars finished behind podium places with Oscar Piastri coming home fifth. However, Norris, who started the race from pole position, also bagged six points after finishing third in the Sprint race.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Norris went on to criticise his own performance at the Circuit of The Americas as he continued, \"I didn\u2019t have enough today, I didn\u2019t drive particularly well. It was a tough challenge out there with the tyres and the car, it was a difficult day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"It\u2019s tough when you\u2019re on the limit and you're trying your best; tyres are old and hot and it\u2019s slidey; it\u2019s easy to make mistakes \u2013 those things happen. But, yeah, I didn\u2019t do enough today; I didn\u2019t drive well enough \u2013 I get that, so I need to make some improvements.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
When pushed on whether he could still take the positives from his race result on Sunday given the challenges faced across the event, the 24-year-old reflected, \"Yeah, it\u2019s tough. I think our only position we could have got today is third, the Ferraris were on another level comparing to us today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Difficult to expect a lot more, honestly I think even if I led after Turn 1 I would have finished third at best, so when you look at it like that, I was only one position away from where I should have finished.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
When pushed on whether he could still take the positives from his race result on Sunday given the challenges faced across the event, the 24-year-old reflected, \"Yeah, it\u2019s tough. I think our only position we could have got today is third, the Ferraris were on another level comparing to us today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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