Lando Norris beat McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by lower than one tenth of a second in Qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton was left to rue a mistake which left him in sixteenth.
Norris turned the tables on Piastri, who had been forward of him all weekend, with a surprising first lap in Q3 to safe his fourth pole of the season and supply the right alternative to make inroads into his nine-point deficit within the Drivers’ Championship.
Charles Leclerc produced an equally spectacular lap to take third from Saturday’s earlier Dash winner Max Verstappen, whose set-up change for Qualifying for extra downforce didn’t enable him to problem the McLarens.
Hamilton was knocked out in Q1 for the second successive day, after he was eradicated within the first a part of Dash Qualifying on Friday. Hamilton thought he was safely by however his greatest lap was deleted for slicing Flip 4 at Raidillon, which put him all the way down to sixteenth.
Kimi Antonelli was additionally bumped out in Q1 in 18th however Mercedes team-mate George Russell certified sixth, simply behind Williams’ Alex Albon.
Yuki Tsunoda loved his greatest Crimson Bull qualifying in seventh, forward of Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson as Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto took tenth.
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Sunday July 27
7.25am: F3 Characteristic Race
8.55am: F2 Characteristic Race
10.40am: Porsche Supercup Race
12.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Belgian GP build-up*
2pm: THE BELGIAN GRAND PRIX*
4pm: Chequered flag: Belgian GP response*
5pm: Ted’s Pocket book
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