Second consecutive retirement for Norris: “It wasn’t our weekend”

Colorless weekend McLaren would certainly have wished for a more beautiful party in the splendid scenery of Monaco to celebrate its 1000 GP in Formula 1. However, for the Woking team, this was not the case: while Oscar Piastri still came within a step of the podium, albeit in a highly contested race due to several time penalties inflicted on various drivers, things went worse for his teammate Lando Norris. Another return to the pits The reigning world champion, who started from eighth position on the grid, had to retire on lap 46 due to technical problems, giving up any hope of a comeback for the second time in a row after the knockout in the Canadian GP: “It wasn’t our weekend and, unfortunately, it’s another retirement for the team – he commented – we’ve had problems since Friday which forced the team to work until 4 in the morning on Saturday to get the car back on the track, only to then run into in another problem in the race. It’s tough and frustrating for everyone because we are making a huge effort to improve, but at the moment reliability is penalizing us. We will keep our heads high and stay positive. We know what areas we need to work on and reliability is at the top of the list. The team deserves praise for their effort and we will continue to work hard for them. I hope we can find our form again, give ourselves something to be excited about and show what we can do next time.” Atypical comeback More positive day for Piastri, one of the few drivers in the top 10 not to have suffered time penalties and climbed up to the final fourth position, with a placing that allows him to overtake Norris in 5th place in the general classification by two points: “When you recover three positions in Monaco, it’s always a good day. Even if I wasn’t the one who made the overtakings, we were good at taking advantage of the situations that presented themselves in front of us and adopting an intelligent strategy. Getting those 12 points was important. However, our pace was not very high today and we need to understand why we struggled so much this weekend. Looking at Barcelona and the rest of the season, we have a lot of work to do to close the gap to the leaders. Thanks to the team for the work done, let’s see what we can do next weekend.”

Automobile Magazine – F1 English News , 2026-06-08 21:00:00