Norris admits McLaren made costly Canadian GP strategy error

Lando Norris said McLaren "should have won" the Canadian Grand Prix but "didn't do a good enough job as a team" in how they handled the first Safety Car phase in the rain-hit race.The Briton eventually finished Sunday's topsy-turvy rain-hit race in second place to Max Verstappen, but the 24-year-old believes he could, and should, have finished one position higher.Having qualified third on the grid, Norris overtook first Verstappen and then George Russell on consecutive laps to lead the Montreal race by lap 21 with his McLaren revelling in the intermediate-tyre conditions. Such was Norris' speed at that stage of the race that, once in the lead, he opened an advantage in the region of 11 seconds in the space of four laps to lap 25, when Logan Sargeant crashed his Williams at Turn Five.When Race Control made the decision to call the Safety Car a short while later, Norris was at the track's final corner, which contains the entry to the pits. Trending The McLaren continued on track for another lap yet the gap back to Verstappen and Russell meant that their respective teams had sufficiently more time before they reached the pit entry to decide to come in. While his rivals were in the pits, Norris was dropping time on track after being picked up by the Safety Car and, although he pitted next time around, the 24-year-old re-emerged onto the track back behind both the Red Bull and Mercedes. Speaking to Sky Sports F1 immediately after the race, Norris said that while McLaren "didn't have enough time to make the decision" to pit immediately, he did admit that "realistically, we should have had the decision pre-planned, and we didn't".He was then more explicit about his views on what had happened in