McLaren’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lando Norris pipped Mercedes’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell to claim pole position for the F1 Qatar Grand Prix sprint race.

Norris, who saw his title hopes end last time out in Las Vegas, was in peerless form in sprint qualifying as he topped all three se🅘ssions on his way to edging Russell to pole by just 0.063 seconds.

McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri was thirꦍd, 0.159s slower than Norris.

"It’s tough, because it’s so quick around here," Norris said. "It feels like the quickest circuit of the y𝓀ear. I mean, the final sector just feels like you’re hanging on. 

"Great qualifying todayꦬ, especially to bou🌊nce back from where we were last time out in Vegas, it’s a nice thing to do. Happy, it was a decent lap, I made too many mistakes on my second. 

"But 💙we were coming here to get pole, and w♑e did that, so job done for today."

Crucially for McLaren in their bid to win the constructors’ championship, both their driveღrs outqualfiied the Ferrari pair of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, who were fourth and fifth.

Newly-crowned four-time world champion Max Verstappenඣ was sixth, 0.303s adrift of Norris, with 2021 title rival and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton just behind in seventh.

Pierre Gasly was eighth-qu𝔉ickest in his upgraded Alpine, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg and Liam Lawson, who completed the top-10 for Haas and RB res🍒pectively.

Fernando Alonso narrowly missed out on a spot in SQ3 as he took 11th as the highest-place🌄d Aston Martin.

Williams driver Alex Albon was 12th, a♛head of Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas, 𓆏the second Aston Martin of Lance Stroll and Haas’ Kevin Magnussen.

It was ano🧸ther disastrous qualifying for Sergio Perez, who faced elimination in the opening session for the second weekend ♏on the trot.

The under-pressure Mexican could only manage the 16th-fastest time, but there was similar disappointment for a driver hoping to take his Red Bull seat, RB’s Yuki Tsunodaꦍ, who was knocked out in 17th.

Esteban Ocon was 18th, ahead of Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu and Williams stand-in Fr🌱anco Colapinto, who was slowest of all in 20th.