British Grand Prix: Max Verstappen pips Lando Norris to pole

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen stole rod presumption from McLaren's Lando Norris successful a gripping and astonishing qualifying league astatine the British Grand Prix.

One of them was Verstappen, who grabbed rod by 0.241 seconds.

Norris led a McLaren two-three up of team-mate Oscar Piastri, for McLaren's champion qualifying for years.

The revived McLarens, sporting an upgrade that had vaulted the car up the grid erstwhile Norris unsocial ran it successful Austria past weekend, bushed the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz successful 4th and 5th and the Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton successful sixth and seventh.

Williams operator Alex Albon took eighth, up of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, with Pierre Gasly's Alpine completing the apical 10.

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The league started bedewed and progressively dried throughout. Timing the runs, and nailing the thigh erstwhile it mattered, was key.

Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez fell connected the incorrect broadside of the line, knocked retired successful the archetypal session.

The Mexican volition commencement down successful 16th, missing retired connected the apical 10 connected the grid for the 5th contention successful a enactment arsenic his hard play continues.

Through the hard running, Verstappen remained serene. The Dutchman did not apical the archetypal session, which was stopped and restarted with 3 minutes to spell with rainfall spitting and successful which Norris went fastest.

But Verstappen was quickest successful the 2nd league and again connected the archetypal runs successful the last top-10 shootout, erstwhile helium was the lone operator connected caller tyres.

On the last laps, Leclerc and Sainz got to wrong a fewer hundredths of a 2nd of Verstappen's time, but it was Norris who yet displaced him, to cheers from the crowd, lone for the satellite champion to dash location hopes.

Norris said: "Pretty insane. My past thigh was a bully lap. I could perceive Zak [Brown, main executive] connected the vigor connected the in-lap which was the champion happening ever.

"It's ever Max. He ever ruins everything for everyone."

Piastri's 3rd spot was by acold the champion effect of his fledging F1 vocation - helium is successful his archetypal play aft McLaren took a accidental connected the Australian aft a stellar inferior career.

"What a qualifying session," Piastri said. "Almost retired successful Q1 but the car was a rocket vessel successful Q2 and Q3. And I felt similar I enactment a decent thigh together. Massive effect for the team, to person some of america up determination is great."

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