Lando Norris was left ruing the one that got away, after a poor start cost him a chance of victory at the Spanish Grand Prix in what he described as “the quickest car” on the grid.
The general consensus in the Formula One paddock was that Barcelona would be a two-horse race between McLaren’s Norris and Max Verstappen, after the Briton eclipsed his Red Bull rival by 0.02sec to take pole position. And so it proved, despite George Russell having a stunning start to push his countryman down into third place.
