Oscar Piastri<\/a> claimed top spot 12 months ago.<\/p>\n“We’ve known that this track has always been good to us but we knew that what we were bringing was going to hopefully do a good step and it has,” added Norris.<\/p>\n
“It’s nice that our estimations have proved correct and the team deserve that, they put a lot of work into all these things. But since the first lap today, I’ve felt comfortable, I’ve got a bit of rear grip and I felt good.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always felt good around here and it’s always good to do it. Good to start the weekend with a pole.”<\/p>\n
When asked how difficult it was to control tyre temperatures during his lap, with track temperatures surpassing 50C on Friday, Norris admitted it had been “pretty tough”.<\/p>\n
“My Q2 was pretty woeful,” he continued. “I was like one second off so it didn’t fill me with confidence into the final run and I was debating whether we do one lap or two.<\/p>\n
“Will [Joseph] pushed me and said we’re doing one lap and it paid off. It’s been good work from the whole team, we got everything in a good window straight away so I’m very proud of them. But the lap was good, it was good apart from Turn 16 onto the back straight. Completely missed it.<\/p>\n
“Difficult conditions also with the wind, the wind can play a big part. I’m just happy, happy to be back here [as it’s] been a little while. [It’s the] perfect way for me to start the weekend.”<\/p>\n
Piastri managed to qualify third behind Norris and Antonelli, and believes that the pace of McLaren is genuine and helped by the warmer conditions in Miami.<\/p>\n
“I think the potential is there, yes,” he said. “We didn’t luck into the result today.<\/p>\n
“We’ll have to wait and see, I’m expecting Mercedes to still be very strong but they’ve not looked quite as dominant this weekend so far. We’ll see if that stays true into tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris believes claiming Sprint pole ahead of the Miami Grand Prix was a “nice way to reward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-641984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}