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Norris said: “It’s so easy to make a mistake, so easy to ruin everything. So quickly it can all have gone wrong within a second.<\/p>\n
“Any second of the race, you lock up, you hit the white line wrong, you have a big snap. It was just very, very difficult at times to just not go into a hole or a tyre barrier somewhere.<\/p>\n
“That’s a big enough challenge, but then when you’ve got the weather changing and the track conditions changing, knowing when to make the correct decision to change on to a slick tyre and stay out on the inter-tyre, and then even more when I’ve got Max behind me and Oscar behind me, it’s stressful.<\/p>\n
“But that’s what makes it rewarding.<\/p>\n
“We worked a lot over the winter to prepare for a race like this, because it’s where we threw away a lot of opportunities last season – Canada, Silverstone, where we were not the best at preparing and knowing how decisive we’ve got to be.<\/p>\n
“Today we were very, very decisive, calling to box five metres before I boxed. But it was the right call in the end, and that won us the race.”<\/p>\n
The race was not over, though.<\/p>\n
In the final five laps after the final restart, Norris had Verstappen right behind him. The McLaren was hampered by significant floor damage – incurred either in the previously mentioned off, or in another in those final laps at Turn Six – but he hung on, despite Verstappen being less than a second behind, and having use of the DRS overtaking aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n