Lando Norris cast a defeated figure after Sunday's dramatic Russian Grand Prix, admitting that his call to ignore his team's timely advice to pit for intermediate tyres in the closing stages of the race was wrong. Norris was narrowly leading and holding off a charging Lewis Hamilton with a handful of laps to go when a bout of rain hit an area of the Sochi track. The late shower saw the bulk of the field head to the pitlane for a tyre change, but Hamilton was among those who stopped the latest, having initially ignored a first call from the Mercedes pitwall. Norris was also encouraged to make a quick switch by his McLaren team but the race leader chose to press on, until conditions worsened...
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