Guenther Steiner was lower than impressed by Lando Norris, who selected to drink a can of Coca-Cola after the Method 1 Spanish Grand Prix.
The McLaren driver took the chequered flag in third place on the Madring, final weekend.
Norris began the race from pole, however an ill-timed VSC handed the result in Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who cruised to his eighth win of the season.
After 53 laps below the sweltering European solar, Norris cracked open a can of Coca-Cola within the cool-down room.
However maybe because the tender drink big’s rival, Pepsi, was F1’s official sponsor, he was requested to quench his thirst away from the cameras.
Norris was heard replying, “I simply did a race, so I’m allowed to drink what I would love. Thanks a lot.”
Talking on The Purple Flags podcast, Steiner instructed the Briton off for his lack of professionalism.
“If you’re knowledgeable, you don’t try this. Finish of story,” he stated.
“You recognize what you are able to do and what you can not do. You’re nicely educated. He shouldn’t have completed it.
“Is it a nasty factor that he did it? Will any person get harm? No. However as a professional, you shouldn’t do it. However he has completed it. And you recognize what? I couldn’t give a s**t.”
Steiner: Lando Norris’ Coca-Cola antics had been “not the neatest factor to do”
After this weird cool-down room second, many consider it was a genius advertising gimmick, presumably for Coca-Cola.
Whereas the model doesn’t sponsor the Woking-based staff, it has had a historical past of repping McLaren.
Steiner, nevertheless, believes that regardless of the intentions, it wasn’t the “smartest” factor for Norris to have completed.
“It’s all going by classes. They promote it and clearly in case you don’t pay, you can not have it. And he had a Coke. It was not the neatest factor to do,” Steiner added.
“However as I stated, I don’t care as a result of now, for Coca-Cola, it labored out fairly good. It was fairly good for [Coca-Cola].
“In the event that they wouldn’t have stated something, no one would have even seen, however as a result of it was so bumped up now it’s a factor, and now Coca-Cola is laughing.”
Heading into the Azerbaijan GP weekend, Norris presently sits fourth within the drivers’ standings, having already racked up two wins for McLaren thus far in 2026.
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