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A quick Lando Norris is fantastic news for F1 fans
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McLaren's Lando Norris celebrating on the podium after finishing second in the Spanish Grand Prix.
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Exciting though it undoubtedly was, when he beat Max Verstappen in the dying moments of an already gripping final qualifying session and put everyone on the edge of their seats, it seems that pole position for a grand prix is not quite the gift that one might expect it to be for Lando Norris.
The last time – the only previous time – he achieved that in a grand prix had been in Sochi back in 2021. On that occasion he lined his McLaren up ahead of Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari, George Russell’s Williams and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes. But the outcome wasn’t so good; he led for 50 of the 53 laps before aquaplaning off on his slick tyres and finishing seventh after following everyone else into the pits for wet-weather rubber he’d resisted.
