Lando Norris felt he was denied second place at the Austrian Grand Prix by a penalty awarded to him after an initial on-track fight with Sergio Pérez.
Norris was defending Red Bull's Perez at Turn 4 when the Mexican driver ran across gravel. The stewards said Norris had driven Perez off the track, though there was no contact, and handed him a five-second penalty, which left him behind Valtteri Bottas at the pit stop.
Norris finished third behind Bottas and race winner Max Verstappen, but was wondering what might have happened.
Speaking after the race, Norris, who finished on the podium in third place, said: "I am disappointed as it should have been in second place. I thought lap 1 was really running. He tried to go out. , who was a bit stupid, and he ran off the track himself, I didn't even push him.
"I'm disappointed but I'm also happy with P3. Our pace was great."
Norris was also awarded two penalty points on his superlicense, leaving him 10 for a rolling 12-month period. Drivers are banned from scoring 12 points anytime in that time period, although Norris would lose two of those penalty points in the two weeks before the British Grand Prix.
Norris explained his frustrations with Perez's move to the TV media pen.
"He risks walking out, he knows there's gravel. You see every other Junior Series and whenever someone tries to hang out and doesn't commit they end up in the gravel.
"I didn't even squeeze him. You understeer around the corner anyway, he should have expected he wasn't going to get it.
"I'm just annoyed, it cost us P2. We had the pace. ... Hamilton had a problem but we had the pace to be ahead of [Valtteri] Bottas, at least, especially in the second stint . had to be in second place, not third. ... Just reinventing myself a little more.
"A little annoyed with it. It's lap 1, people are running, he's tried something that didn't work."
Norris was able to keep pace with Mercedes drivers throughout the race and said McLaren is in good shape going forward.
"We had good pace and I could keep up with him even in filthy air, but not enough to join the DRS," he said. "As soon as I got close to or within a second, I started struggling a lot.
"Should, Villa, Cana finally. Nice to know we can be there and we can race them, it was actually the first race in many years of Mercedes and Red Bull racing. Hopefully we can keep it going." can time."