Showing off on the podium after winning the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Lando Norris made his first misstep of an afternoon that had challenged the Formula 1 drivers to their very limits.
Norris jumped off the top step, and tried to do his signature move, where he uncorks the champagne bottle by bashing it into the ground.
Except that, not for the first time, the force of his jump pushed things too far, and he smashed the bottle.
Then, holding up the shattered top to the crowd below, he stepped backwards and inadvertently put the side of his head into the sparkles blowing up from the fireworks on the front of the platform.
Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar showed no pity, and proceeded to drench him with the contents of their bottles.
In any case, Norris was fine, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella confirmed shortly afterwards, and the Briton showed no ill effects in his post-race interviews.
It was, he said, "one of the hardest races of the year in terms of focus needed every lap and therefore one of the best".
Norris jumped off the top step, and tried to do his signature move, where he uncorks the champagne bottle by bashing it into the ground.
Except that, not for the first time, the force of his jump pushed things too far, and he smashed the bottle.
Then, holding up the shattered top to the crowd below, he stepped backwards and inadvertently put the side of his head into the sparkles blowing up from the fireworks on the front of the platform.
Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar showed no pity, and proceeded to drench him with the contents of their bottles.
In any case, Norris was fine, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella confirmed shortly afterwards, and the Briton showed no ill effects in his post-race interviews.
It was, he said, "one of the hardest races of the year in terms of focus needed every lap and therefore one of the best".
