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Today, reviewing Austrian GP qualifying, one of the shortest laps on the calendar, which usually means we get some very tight margins.

And we did get that, apart from not out front.

Lando Norris taking pole position by over half a second back to the Ferrari of Charles

Leclair.

And it goes McLaren Ferrari, McLaren Ferrari, as Piastri and Hamilton have got the second

row of the grid.

0.521, Sam, That doesn't happen, Austria. Have a day off. Honestly, they have a day off. I say he bounced back. I say he'd come back fighting. And I didn't mean come back fighting and just wipe everyone out. I mean, you know, give everyone else a bit of a chance to breed, have a go, you know. Yes, there were some yellow flag issues. Yes, we didn't see the likes of Vastepen and Piastri get their final running. But, I mean, the gap wasn't going to be half a second, but the gap was looking mighty even before that yellow flag came out. I would be pretty surprised if Piaastri or Vastappen, or even the Ferraris at their absolute peak today, were going to trouble Landon Norris, who has had an absolute return to form.

We've seen this from him a few times this season where he's just rocked up. It seemed to have

controlled the weekend. He didn't do FP1, but he was fastest in FP2, fastest in FP3,

and then pretty much fastening every single session throughout qualifying as well and

force taking whole position. Half a second faster than everyone else. Around this track of all

tracks is pretty darn phenomenal. Yeah, caveat the yellow flag, but still, what an effort from him.

Yeah, and let's start our review with the McLaren guys.

Got plenty to talk about on today's review.

Mercedes 5th and 9 Ferrari with their upgraded car getting second and fourth,

as you've already mentioned, the Red Bull of Max Verstappen,

joint worst qualifying of the season so far, down in seventh, some surprise appearances

in Q3 as well.

Lando Norris, obviously recovering from that incident he had towards the end of the Canadian

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