McLaren and Lando Norris caught Mercedes napping in the closing moments of the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix, according to trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin. After being hit with a five-second penalty for contact with the Red Bull of Alex Albon, Mercedes had accepted Lewis Hamilton would lose second position to Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. Article continues under video What the team had not banked on was the pace of Lando Norris as the McLaren driver set the fastest lap on the final lap of the race to steal third from Hamilton by less than two-hundredths of a second. “We accepted we’d lost the place to Leclerc, and normally penalties do give you an issue," said Shovlin....
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