It's wall going wrong for Lando

RAISED KERB ENDS NORRIS POLE BID

- BY DANIEL MOXON

LANDO NORRIS called himself a "f****** idiot" as a qualifying crash handed team-mate Oscar Piastri the chance to take control of the drivers' championship.

Norris is just three points ahead of his McLaren team-mate in the standings and will start today's race 10th on the grid because of his crash in the final part of last night's session.

Norris needed a positive result after some harsh self-criticism following his sluggish performance in Bahrain last weekend.

But when he hit the raised kerb at turn five on his first run in Q3, his chances of pole evaporated with the Brit unable to stop his car sliding into the wall and condemning him to 10th place on the grid for today's race.