Lando Norris, during the final lap of the 2026 British Grand Prix with the safety car in the lead, asked race engineer Will Joseph a surprising question over the radio: "Couldn't I cross the finish line first by going through the pit lane?" This humorous question evoked Michael Schumacher's controversial victory on the same track in 1998 with a similar maneuver.<\/p>\n
When it became clear the race wouldn't restart, Norris, in fourth place, asked over the radio: "We're not allowed to pit, are we? So I can't go through the pit lane and win the race?" Joseph replied with a single sentence: "No, you can't." Norris simply laughed and said, "What a shame!".<\/p>\n
The incident Norris is referring to occurred at the 1998 British Grand Prix, where the pit lane was located on the 'National Pit Straight' in the old Silverstone layout. On the final lap, Schumacher entered the pit lane to serve a stop-and-go penalty; however, during this maneuver, he also crossed the finish line, being the first to see the checkered flag. Ferrari argued that their driver won the race within the rules, and the controversy continued for a long time.<\/p>\n
The main point of contention was whether Schumacher served his penalty properly. The penalty was completely cancelled after it was determined that the race stewards had made errors in the notification procedure. The three stewards who officiated that race were forced to resign.<\/p>\n
Following this incident, the FIA revised its sporting regulations, eliminating the possibility of winning a race by overtaking in the pit lane. Thanks to this current rule, the scenario Norris inquired about on the radio is now virtually impossible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lando Norris, Britanya GP’nin g\u00fcvenlik arac\u0131 arkas\u0131nda bitmesi s\u0131ras\u0131nda tak\u0131m telsizinden pit yolundan ge\u00e7ip yar\u0131\u015f\u0131 kazan\u0131p kazanamayaca\u011f\u0131n\u0131 sorarak Michael Schumacher’in 1998’deki tart\u0131\u015fmal\u0131 Silverstone zaferine at\u0131fta bulundu.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[775,10,19,217,605],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","tag-britanya-gp","tag-formula-1","tag-lando-norris","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-silverstone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lando-Norris-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenyok.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}