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Oscar Piastri led Lando Norris to a McLaren one-two successful sprint qualifying astatine the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Norris’ rubric rival Max Verstappen could negociate lone 4th spot successful the Red Bull, down Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
Verstappen, who has a five-place grid punishment for the main expansive prix connected Sunday, starts the play 47 points up of Norris successful the championship.
The effect of sprint qualifying gives Norris an accidental to claw backmost a tiny magnitude of points connected Verstappen successful Saturday’s sprint event, successful which determination are 8 points for a win, 7 for 2nd and truthful connected down to eighth.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz qualified 5th for the sprint, up of Mercedes’ George Russell.
The 2nd Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton was knocked retired successful the 2nd league and volition commencement the sprint 11th.
Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez suffered the aforesaid fate, successful 13th.
Piastri secured rod by employing an alternate tyre strategy from Norris arsenic McLaren had a decisive borderline implicit the remainder of the field.
Norris chose caller tyres for his archetypal tally and acceptable the gait with a 1 infinitesimal 8.928 seconds lap, with the Australian conscionable nether 0.3secs slower connected utilized tyres.
Norris’ 2nd tally was connected the aforesaid acceptable of tyres, which present had 3 laps of usage connected them, portion Piastri switched to a caller set.
Piastri edged retired Norris by conscionable 0.029secs, portion the Briton was not capable to improve.
Verstappen was 0.320secs adrift successful 4th place, and conscionable 0.056secs slower than Leclerc.
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