Norris takes dominant pole from Verstappen

Lando Norris beat Max Verstappen to pole place for the Dutch Grand Prix, with Oscar Piastri third within the second McLaren.

George Russell completed simply behind for Friday observe pacesetter Mercedes, which had Lewis Hamilton fail to progress from Q2 in a session the place all of the drivers had been struggling to construct tyre temperature on the cool observe floor that was very inexperienced after additional rain hit the occasion earlier on Saturday.

Norris led Q3 all through – his preliminary 1m10.074s on the primary runs placing him forward of Piastri and Verstappen at this stage.

Verstappen led the pack round for the ultimate go and improved considerably to rise to provisional pole with a 1m10.029s, gaining significantly from a really robust center sector, however Norris’s last sector was very robust.

Norris roared to a 1m09.673s – the one driver to crack that barrier – as Verstappen was pushed to 0.356s adrift.

However Piastri couldn’t knock the house hero off the entrance row as he paid the value for not going faster than earlier than within the center sector and completed 0.499s down on his team-mate regardless of placing in a private finest time on the finish.

Russell did sufficient to beat Sergio Perez to fourth, with Charles Leclerc the lead Ferrari in sixth.

Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll ran offset to the remaining in the midst of Q3 as they solely had one set of latest tyres left for the ultimate phase, as did everybody besides the McLarens, Verstappen and Russell.

Alonso took seventh and Stroll ninth, with Alex Albon getting in between them and Pierre Gasly behind in tenth.

In Q2, Leclerc’s last-gasp enchancment knocked out his Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz, who had not pushed on the softs this weekend pre-qualifying resulting from his Friday gearbox difficulty and the rain seen to this point at this occasion. Hamilton missed the lower behind in twelfth.

Then got here Yuki Tsunoda and the Haas pair Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen.

In Q1, Perez’s leap from the drop zone to move the phase utilizing an additional set of softs shuffled Daniel Ricciardo to a swift exit for RB.

Perez’s further lap was required after his first try was scuppered coming throughout Hamilton going slowly on the surface of Flip 9 in an incident that will probably be investigated now the session has concluded.

Esteban Ocon couldn’t discover the identical enhancements as others amid the observe evolution issue and was out in seventeenth regardless of setting a private finest time on his final Q1 lap, with Sauber pair Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu additionally out after doing their last efforts forward of many others.

Logan Sargeant missed qualifying for Williams as his automotive might be repaired in time after his fiery FP3 crash.