INDIANAPOLIS — It didn’t take Lando Norris long to get over his disappointing retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix.Just a few hours later, the reigning Formula 1 world champion was on a plane heading to Indianapolis to hang out with Conor Daly, who’d raced in Sunday’s Indy 500, and Daniel Ricciardo, Norris’s former McLaren teammate, who was attending for the first time.Norris had not seen Ricciardo since the Australian’s last F1 start almost two years ago. But they didn’t spend the evening reminiscing about the old times. All they wanted to do was talk about the Indy 500.“(Ricciardo) loved it,” Norris told The Athletic. “He said he didn’t sit down for all four hours. He said it was one of the coolest things he’s done.”Norris had also been keeping a close eye on the Indy 500, which started a few hours before the F1 race in Canada. He watched a stream on his phone during the pre-race drivers’ parade, making him very popular among his peers, who also sought to watch as much of the race as they could before the start of the F1 race in Montreal.On Monday, after spending the previous evening out with Daly — he’d been in the lead fight at points, only to finish up 12th — it was Norris’s turn to take in the enormity of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and visit the Brickyard.“It’s such a special event,” Norris said. “Here’s probably one of the coolest places where you can do it. I don’t know where else is more special than here. I’m a lucky guy.”With The Athletic in tow, F1’s reigning champion spent the next several hours letting Indianapolis work on him.Next up for Norris was a trip to the golf course; hardly a chore given his love for the sport.IMS is so big that it has its own 18-hole golf course in the middle called Brickyard Crossing. Norris was joined by Brown and McLaren IndyCar driver Christian Lundgaard — who has a 4.2 handicap and, by his own admission, plays “too much” golf — for a closest to the pin challenge on the par 3 seventh hole.(Luke Smith/The Athletic)Despite feeling some stiffness in his back from the 200 laps around Indianapolis the previous day, Lundgaard managed to narrowly beat Norris, though they each only got a couple of balls on the green thanks to the wind.Brown blamed a particularly wayward shank on the damp ground from the previous day’s rain and not wearing proper golf shoes. “I hope someone got that on camera,” quipped Norris.