The official McLaren account has shared a clip of Sky F1’s Anthony Davidson breaking down the controversial contact between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris during the Austrian Grand Prix on X — adding more fuel to the social media fire.
From these angles, Davidson shows Norris darting to the right to overtake Verstappen just as Verstappen approaches the 100-meter board, which Davidson points out denotes the standard braking location for the turn. Here, Norris moves to the right in an attempt to overtake Verstappen — but he does so by driving very wide. Davidson points this out as being a loss of confidence in his rival.
Finally, Davidson shows Norris’ move on Lap 64, where he had succeeded in pushing Verstappen off the racing line and taking track space for himself. The pundit calls it a fair move, as Norris gave Verstappen the required amount of space — the width of a car — to make the slingshot maneuver.The clip ends as Davidson asks, “Is there still a car’s width?”Norris had a chance at battling Verstappen for the lead of the Austrian Grand Prix after a slow tyre change ate up the Red Bull driver’s lead.