Lando Norris calls for changes in Virtual Safety Car rules to ensure fairness

Lando Norris lost victory at the 2026 Spanish Grand Prix at the Madring circuit due to the poorly timed deployment of the Virtual Safety Car (VSC), which disrupted his pit stop strategy despite him having started on pole and led the race. McLaren compounded the issue by executing a slow pit stop and failing to instruct Norris to stay out when the VSC was ending, with replays suggesting the stop could have been aborted. Norris has called for changes to VSC rules to ensure fairer outcomes, expressing frustration that a race result was determined by factors entirely outside a driver's control.