Lando Norris grabs the season's first Sprint qualifying pole position!
Lando Norris grabbed the opening Sprint pole position of the season in an entertaining wet sprint shootout that saw the McLaren driver’s time deleted only to be reinstated.
Lewis Hamilton went quickest before Charles Leclerc took over at the front then Fernando Alonso followed by the Red Bull team-mates. Sergio Perez went P1 with a 1:36.110 to sit three-tenths up on Max Verstappen. And out went Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon, the latter behind despite using the new Alpine floor, Alex Albon, Yuki Tsunoda and Logan Sargeant.Follow PlanetF1.com’s WhatsApp channel for all the F1 breaking news!The delay meant the rain moved ever closer to the circuit, prompting the drivers to queue at the end of the pit lane with a warning that it could arrive at the end of the first hot laps. Such was the traffic jam that the drivers tried to squeeze into the queue.
But as the rain came down harder, those behind the Briton on the timesheet weren’t able to improve their times, saving Hamilton but putting George Russell, Kevin Magnussen, Nico Hulkenberg, Daniel Ricciardo and Lance Stroll out of sprint qualifying.Venturing out on intermediates having again queued at the end of the pit lane, Norris was told the rain would “continue at this intensity”.
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