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F1 Qatar GP: Norris takes dash pole from Russell, Piastri
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F1 Qatar GP: Norris takes dash pole from Russell, Piastri

By Miles Cooper November 30, 2024
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F1 Qatar GP: Norris takes dash pole from Russell, Piastri

Lando Norris took pole for the Qatar Grand Prix dash race over Las Vegas Components 1 winner George Russell after setting his finest time on the first try within the remaining stage.

McLaren driver Norris set a 1m21.012s on his first try on mushy tyres, doing so with out the preparation lap that different drivers tried to use.

The Briton then touched the gravel on his second run at Flip 2, which prompted an early return to the pits having already secured pole. A problem from Oscar Piastri got here with a purple first sector on his second try, however subsided with time misplaced over the remainder of the lap.

Because the Australian couldn’t enhance, Russell took benefit and moved as much as second – 0.063s shy of Norris on the chequered flag.

Carlos Sainz joined Piastri on the second row for the dash race together with his sole lap rising on the finish of the session; the Spaniard needed to again out of an earlier try at a lap, which compelled him into taking three preparation laps earlier than his remaining run.

This moved him forward of team-mate Charles Leclerc, whereas championship winner Max Verstappen was sixth – having additionally been unable to enhance on his remaining tour.

Lewis Hamilton was seventh quickest, with half-a-second’s hole to eighth-placed Pierre Gasly. Nico Hulkenberg was ninth forward of Liam Lawson, because the Kiwi had a greater lap deleted for observe limits.

Fernando Alonso misplaced his place in SQ3 after Gasly’s late lap within the intermediate stage, because the Alpine driver discovered just below a tenth on the Aston Martin driver to bag his likelihood within the prime 10 shootout.

Alex Albon was additionally displaced from the highest 10 among the many remaining runs after a twitch at Flip 15 appeared to value a sliver of time on his final lap.

The Williams driver was 0.012s away from Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas, who couldn’t ship on the time he’d made up within the opening two sectors and fell brief on the remaining hurdle. Lance Stroll and Kevin Magnussen had been additionally eradicated in Q2.

Sergio Perez was dumped out through the opening stage, having fallen wanting the on-the-cusp Albon by 0.013s. He maintained a 0.004s benefit over Yuki Tsunoda, who couldn’t discover sufficient time within the remaining sector to progress.

Esteban Ocon dropped into the underside 5 on the finish of the session as a handful of drivers behind him on the timing screens discovered enchancment; Alonso, Stroll, and Hulkenberg broke out of the relegation zone with their final runs to depart Ocon out of luck.

Zhou Guanyu and Franco Colapinto propped up the order, having been within the backside 5 forward of the ultimate runs – neither might enhance sufficiently to vary that.

 

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