Lando Norris says it took “an amazing lap, my best lap by a long way” to finally take a pole position for McLaren this year.
Lando Norris said it took "an amazing lap, my best lap by a long way" to finally take a pole position for McLaren this year.
"I knew for the final lap, I've got to go balls out and do it, you know?" Norris said. "And that little bit I was needing to get out of Max I managed to get. So I'm happy the risks paid off, and for all of it to come together when I needed it most was great." Norris becomes the third different driver from three different teams in the past three races to beat Verstappen to pole. The season is suddenly looking very different than it did just a few races ago, when the Dutchman appeared to have picked up his domination where he left off last year.
Norris added: "The car's moving around, it's bouncing a little bit. It just doesn't fill you with confidence going around such a corner when the car's doing those things. If Verstappen was disappointed, he was hiding it well. The reason he had been so quick in the high-speed, he said, was because the team had put more downforce on the car after a difficult Friday. In qualifying, at least, it may have limited him.
"So maybe a bit too draggy for qualifying, looking back at it. But that's something that is always very easy to say afterwards because the whole of the weekend we were just sliding around too much and now probably it was finally hooked up and you probably would have turned down the wing a little bit."
"It's an opportunity for us to go out and try and win a race, you know?" Norris said. "I hope I can have just a good start and kind of control it from there. But I'm sure the whole race I'm going to be under pressure."Before third practice on Saturday, Norris and other McLaren staff and guests had to evacuate their hospitality area when a fire broke out.
For Hamilton himself, it was the first time he had out-qualified Russell since Japan back in early April, and only the second time in 10 races this year.
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