Oscar Piastri found plenty of encouraging pace but it still wasn't enough to get McLaren's Australian ace into the qualifying shake-up at Zandvoort as teammate Lando Norris roared to back-to-back poles at the Dutch Grand Prix.
Back at the track where this time last year he had seemed to be on top of the world, Piastri had looked sharp for most of the qualifying session on Saturday, hours after he had only been able to finish fifth in the sprint race behind victorious Mercedes driver George Russell.
But when it came to the Q3 with spots of rain threatening, it was Norris who continued his recent renaissance, taking pole just as he had done last time out at the Hungarian Grand Prix when he went on to win the race.
