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Lando Norris secured pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix after Carlos Sainz triggered a red flag during Q3 with just a tad over eight minutes to go.
It became a one-lap shootout under the lights at Marina Bay Street Circuit, Piastri on provisional pole while Norris sat sixth before the final runs after putting together a shocking lap during third practice earlier on Saturday. Max Verstappen saw his lap time deleted because of the double yellow flags at Turn 18, where Sainz crashed into the barriers, and that’s an automatic lap deletion in qualifying. But the Dutchman insisted that he lifted. That lap deletion, though, didn’t matter with his final flying lap landing him a front-row start.
The Mercedes duo will make up the second row, with Lewis Hamilton qualifying third and George Russell fourth. Nico Hülkenberg will line up sixth, alongside Piastri, who qualified fifth. Charles Leclerc saw his final lap time deleted for track limits at Turn 2, landing him down in ninth.
Meanwhile, Sergio Pérez was knocked out in Q2, marking this weekend the first time since Hungary that the Red Bull driver hasn’t advanced to Q3. Daniel Ricciardo, who faces questions about his F1 future, was knocked out in Q1, while RB teammate Yuki Tsunoda qualified eighth, lining up alongside Fernando Alonso. In his first race back since the one-race ban he served last weekend, Kevin Magnussen qualified P14.
This is a developing story.
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