
The Orange Army were in fine voice and had been cheering along their champion Max Verstappen all weekend, but Lando Norris was doing his best to ruin the party by taking pole at the Circuit Zandvoort and the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix.
Norris is Verstappen's closest competition on the leaderboard and the most likely to stop the champ from driving his way to a fourth successive championship. That outcome still feels somewhat inevitable with the Dutchman's 78-point cushion coming into this weekend, but a win for the McLaren driver on Sunday would feel like a significant victory in context of the season.