Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Lando Norris says Franco Colapinto needs to be banned for inflicting Baku accident

World champion Lando Norris has referred to as for Alpine’s Franco Colapinto to be banned for inflicting an accident at a restart on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Norris was taken out in a sequence response when the Argentine locked up his brakes and slid into team-mate Pierre Gasly, who then hit Norris. All three automobiles retired on account of the incident.

Norris informed BBC Radio 5 Live: “Give him a ban. It’s fairly easy.”

Colapinto stated: “I could be sorry to everybody. It’s been a giant mistake, after all. I simply locked up after which I used to be very uncontrolled.”

Briton Norris stated he believed governing physique the FIA ought to take such incidents extra critically due to the impression it has on different drivers who’re innocent, and the fee when it comes to broken elements.

“The FIA needs to be extra strict and begin handing out bans for this type of stuff,” Norris stated.

“It’s careless from individuals. It prices some huge cash. All my elements are within the bin now, so individuals ought to simply get banned for this type of driving. (They) do not should be in Formula 1.

“If you trigger a crash on a restart like this, yeah, you need to have at the very least a one-race ban.”