Here is Giles Richards qualifying report from Zandvoort is here and with that I’m going to sign off on today’s live blog. Dom Booth will have full coverage of the race tomorrow. Thanks for following along!
It all flipped for the McLaren drivers in the final qualifying session. Piastri had trailed Norris in practice and the first two qualifying sessions, but came through in Q3. The Australian was feeling pretty happy with the timing of his best lap.
Piastri said: “That was the definition of peaking at the right time, the whole weekend I felt pretty good but there have been a couple of corners that I’ve not been able to go any faster.
“I didn’t really go any faster in those corners but I found some more elsewhere so I’m super happy to come away with the result.
“Obviously we’ve still got all the points tomorrow but it was looking like a tricky weekend so far, so to come out with that I’m pretty stoked.”
Norris, despite losing out to his teammate at the last didn’t seem too concerned: “It was close. It has been close all weekend so could easily go one way or the other. Yes I could be a little disappointed not on pole but not the end of the world either.
“With the wind like this a lot of it is down to luck. I had a good lap. I am in a good position and we are in a good fight.
“We will have some fun tomorrow. We both had terrible starts last year, we will see. It is a long race with a lot of laps.”
