McLaren driver Lando Norris has been pictured wearing a bandage after sustaining a facial injury ahead of next weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.
Images published on social media on Saturday night showed Norris tending to a cut on his face while partying on a boat in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, where the driver of his McLaren crashed into Corning. It is believed that they were enjoying the Sudarg (King’s Day) celebrations.
Lando Norris suffers facial injury in Amsterdam
Norris, 24, appears to have cut his nose with broken glass. There appears to be no question of his participation in the Miami Grand Prix, one of three US-based races on the current F1 calendar.
Norris’ accident comes after an impressive start to the F1 2024 season, with Norris finishing fifth in the drivers’ standings with 58 points, 20 points ahead of highly rated McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. entered in.
Norris, who took McLaren’s first podium at the 2024 F1 in Australia last month, produced a strong performance at the recent Chinese Grand Prix, finishing second and denying the dominant Red Bull team their fourth one-two finish of the new season. did.
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This comes after Norris took an impressive pole position for the sprint race in Shanghai, setting the fastest lap 1.261 seconds faster than second-placed Lewis Hamilton in a rain-affected qualifying session. Ta.
However, Norris was unable to turn his pole position into his first F1 victory, finishing 6th in the mini race after veering wide at the first corner.
Five years after arriving on the McLaren grid, Norris remains F1’s record for most points without a win, with 691 points since his debut in 2019.
Despite the 2024 driver market being uncertain, Norris committed his future to McLaren by signing a new multi-year contract with the team in January.
Earlier this month, respected F1 reporter Mark Hughes said Norris had rejected an offer from Red Bull, which had turned down approaches from multiple world champions Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, before signing a new contract with McLaren. he claimed.
However, former Renault driver Jolyon Palmer has insisted that extending Norris’ McLaren contract could be a wise move given Verstappen’s track record of disciplining his Red Bull team-mates.
“He committed his future to McLaren over the winter, an interesting choice given the current turmoil in the driver market,” Palmer said in a column on the official F1 website.
Time will tell if it’s a wise choice, as both Red Bull and Mercedes have seats available, but given McLaren’s current improvement, there’s no better place than this in the short term. There aren’t many.
Palmer added: “A seat at Red Bull is attractive, but seeing how Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon and Sergio Perez were wiped out by Verstappen, I’m not sure anyone would be interested in joining a team so excited about their superstar driver. I’m sure he’ll reconsider,” he added.
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