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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Philip Duncan

Max Verstappen claims United States Grand Prix sprint pole to pile pressure on Lando Norris

Lando Norris risks losing ground to Max Verstappen in his bid to be crowned world champion after seeing his rival take pole position for Saturday's sprint race in the United States.

Norris, who trails Verstappen by 52 points heading into the concluding six rounds of the campaign, will line up three places behind Verstappen for the 19-lap dash after he qualified a disappointing fourth at Austin's Circuit of the Americas.

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