McLaren says it will review its decision to not order Lando Norris to pit during the late rain shower in the Russian Grand Prix.

Norris was leading under pressure from Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages when conditions began to worsen during the final laps in Sochi.

As drivers began to struggle for grip, Norris was asked by his team whether he felt the time was right to switch to intermediate tyres, but the Briton chose to stay out on slicks, while Hamilton pitted.

But the rain intensified over the next lap and resulted in Norris sliding off the track, eventually coming home in seventh place.

Reflecting on the team’s choice to back Norris’ call on strategy despite the conditions worsening, McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl admitted it was the “wrong decision”.

“As always, in these tricky situations, it’s communication between the driver and the pit wall using all the information we have available in terms of weather forecast and what other cars are doing, trying to brief Lando and at the same time get the feedback from Lando how the conditions are,” Seidl explained, as quoted by RaceFans.

“That’s how I’d say that was the decision to be made about what to do to pit or not.

“Lando, with the information he had from us as well as what he was feeling on track, he felt good staying out there on the slicks. And in the end we didn’t overrule him as a team, so that’s something we need to look into to see what we could have done better.

“Because, of course, in hindsight, it was the wrong decision that we made as a team. But we win together, we lose together, the important thing is to analyse it, to learn from it and then move on.”

Hamilton, who went on to claim his 100th Formula 1 career win, initially ignored Mercedes’ call for him to pit before bering ordered in.

Seidl said Mercedes had the luxury of being able to react to its gamble to stay out and try and see it to the end on dry tyres.

“On Lewis’ side we heard the discussions as well,” Seidl told Sky Sports F1, “it was pretty much the same.

“Obviously you get the chance to wait on what we are doing and do the opposite because he was in P2 at this point, we didn’t have this opportunity,” said Seidl.

“And we wanted to go for the win. That’s why we decided together to stay out, it just didn’t work out.”

McLaren came close to securing back-to-back victories for the first time since 2012, and Seidl believes seeing a win slip away gives the team a reason to learn from their mistakes.

“That’s always the first thing we do. It doesn’t matter what the outcome of a race, we can do this,” he said.

“But then at the same time, I think it’s also important to see all the positives from this week and also on his side and come back stronger in Turkey.”