Juan Pablo Montoya: Lando is just too emotional

      Towards the end of the Canadian Grand Prix, the McLaren drivers collided on the start-finish line of the Montreal circuit, and this recalled a similar episode that occurred in 2011 in almost the same place between Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, who were driving for the Woking team at the time.

      This time, the participants in the collision were Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, who made an unsuccessful attempt to attack his teammate, which ended in a collision and a descent of the British racer. However, he immediately admitted that he was wrong and took full responsibility for himself.

      Juan Pablo Montoya, a former Formula 1 driver who held 25 Grands Prix for McLaren in 2005-2006, knows this team and said about what happened in Montreal: "There were even two serious mistakes. The first one happened during qualifying because the situation got out of Norris' control in the final session.  

      In recent weeks, it has seemed that he is perhaps a little better than Piastri, but when it comes to the final of qualifying, he simply does not manage to complete a good lap. It's hard to watch because he's capable of faster speeds than Oscar. But in the end, it is always Piastri who is ahead.

      Lando is just too emotional. I like him and I'm really worried about him, but every time he puts himself in a difficult position. He can stay calm all weekend and do everything right, but when it comes to the qualifying final, it seems like some kind of switch is going off in his head.

      He begins to think: "Right now, I have no right to make mistakes." But if you start thinking about how not to make a mistake, then in most cases you will be wrong.

      If we talk about their collision, then when you are driving in a straight line, and there is a side road covered with grass, then if you fly out onto this side of the road, then sometimes the situation can still be saved. But in this case, there was a turn ahead, so even if Oscar had left his partner a little more room, he would still have stayed in front. Even if Norris hadn't run into Piastri, he still wouldn't have succeeded.

      He just didn't show enough patience, even though he had already done the main hard work, regained the 5-second gap and was catching up with his partner. He had a chance to beat Oscar, but he just missed it. But he should be forcing Piastri to make mistakes, not making them himself."