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Lando Norris oozed satisfaction on Saturday after beating series leader and three-time champion Max Verstappen to pole position for Sunday’s United States Grand Prix.
The McLaren driver clocked a best lap in one minute and 32.330 seconds to outpace his Red Bull rival, who leads the title race by 54 points with six races remaining, by 0.031 seconds.
“It was a beautiful lap,” said Norris, after claiming his first American pole and his fourth pole in five races as he seeks to overhaul Verstappen.
“I was not going to go much quicker than I did. When you just do a lap and you think ‘damn, it’s going to be tough to beat that’ … I put everything out on the line and it’s what we needed to do.
“We’ve been on the back foot pretty much the whole weekend.
