Lando Norris will make his second top-five start in a week at the Austrian Grand Prix following yet another strong qualifying from the British rookie for the increasingly-impressive McLaren squad.

Norris ended the qualifying at the Red Bull Ring in a strong P6 for McLaren, just 0.027s shy of Kevin Magnussen’s impressive performance to go fifth for Haas. But P6 became P5 following Magnussen’s five-place grid drop for changing his gearbox before the session, meaning that Norris matches his best-ever starting position from Paul Ricard last time out. But according to the 19-year-old, he’d had to work hard for the achievement…

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“It wasn’t an easy quali, we still had to push,” said Norris. “I had to do a pretty decent lap, I thought, to get where I did. I was behind the Alfas after the first run of Q3, so I didn’t have the best banker lap, let’s say, but I managed to make a few improvements. We made a little tweak to the front wing and we managed to do a better lap come the important lap.

“[So a] good starting position, like last weekend… [and now] I want to stay out of harm’s way, get through the first few laps clean and try and build from there. Generally, our race pace has been strong and we can be confident going into tomorrow.”