WATCH: Lando Norris Hilariously Pretends to Be Shocked by Hamilton’s Imola F1 Pole

Apart from being a Formula One driver, Lando Norris is known for his reaction videos on his Twitch channel. The McLaren driver joking act surprised when Lewis Hamilton took pole at Imola, this past weekend.

Norris put a stellar lap too, making it into the top 3. However, his lap time was deleted due to track limits being exceeded. Therefore, the young British driver had to start from 6th place but had an excellent race.

However, the 21-year-old redeemed himself as he took P3, while Hamilton took second and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took his first win for the season.

Lando Norris pretends to be surprised by Lewis Hamilton’s pole at Imola

On Norris twitch channel where he regular post content and reaction video. He acted shocked when the Mercedes driver clinched a pole position for Sunday’s race.

He said, “Wow a Mercs on pole, no way! Mercedes on pole, freaking hell. Insane that, what didn’t know that.”

Hamilton had a major obstacle as he went off track and lost several positions. He had an amazing recovery and took P2, sharing the podium with McLaren’s Norris and Red Bull’s Verstappen.

Norris believes he achieved P3 at Imola solely on merit

The young McLaren driver had a rollercoaster of a weekend at Imola. He put an amazing lap around the Italian circuit but was deleted as he exceeded track limits. He started in P6 and his determination made the Woking-based outfit get their first podium of the season.

In the post-race interview as quoted by Motorsport.com, Lando said, “I definitely would say so, that it is a deserved podium today. If you look at the two guys that have been in front of us, they are the reference in this sport together with their teams at the moment. Therefore, it is obviously very, very good to finish in P3.”

“It’s important also to not again get carried away now with this result, if you look at how quickly Max could drive away in this last stint, then you see that we still have a lot of work to do,” Norris concluded.

Norris hopes to carry this amazing form and will be aiming to have a similar or better result when they go to Portugal for the third race of the season. What did you think of Lando’s race at Imola? Let us know in the comments below.

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