Lando Norris has defended his wave at McLaren teammate Daniel Ricciardo at the Monaco Grand Prix and slammed the "absolute crap" speculation over the gesture's meaning.<\/p>\n
With 25 laps still remaining at the Grand Prix Ricciardo was shown a blue flag and as Norris passed, he waved at the Aussie, leading fans to believe he was mocking Ricciardo.<\/a><\/p>\n "Getting lapped, might be the first time. I don't really know what to say," Ricciardo said after finishing 12th, while Lando was third.<\/p>\n "I have a tear in my eye here for Daniel Ricciardo," Sky Sports commentator Martin Brundle said of the wave.<\/p>\n "That's an ouch moment isn't it. It hurts for Daniel Ricciardo."<\/p>\n Norris hit out at any suggestion he was mocking Ricciardo and instead explained he was just trying to show his "thanks".<\/p>\n "All right, so I see so many of you make up absolute crap and nonsense as usual," he said on Twitch.<\/p>\n "By the way, any time someone lets me pass for a blue flag, anyone, if they get out of the way properly and they should, I put my hand up and say thanks, all right?"<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1396469716328255490<\/a><\/p>\n Norris pointed out that he also waves at others he passed in similar circumstances including Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher.<\/p>\n "I did it to freaking everyone; Mazepin, Schumacher, Danny," Norris said.<\/p>\n "Whoever I passed and they got out of the way, I put my hand up and say thanks.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/McLarenF1\/status\/1396497776574406657<\/a><\/p>\n "So, don't just notice one when I passed Danny and think I'm doing something that is not right.<\/p>\n "Let me just get that point across because I see a lot of stories that people make up."<\/p>\n Norris currently sits third in the Formula One driver's standings behind Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lando Norris has defended his wave at McLaren teammate Daniel Ricciardo at the Monaco Grand Prix and slammed the "absolute crap" speculation over the gesture's […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77157,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77156\/revisions\/77157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}