Lando Norris: Qualifying was very tense!
Lando Norris won the qualifying session held in very difficult weather conditions – it is already the British McLaren driver's seventh pole of the season, and even the rain in Las Vegas couldn't stop him.
Lando Norris (1st): "It was a nervous, very nervous qualifying, and I didn't know that after me no one would have time to do a lap. I felt the first two sectors of the lap were pretty good, but the track was very slippery. It only took a small mistake attacking the kerb, and I made that mistake, and the car immediately started to spin — I almost hit the wall!
But my time was enough for pole. Far from the best conditions, but I'm glad the rain stopped and we were able to perform well. By the way, I even had a little nap before qualifying. I was expecting it to be dry, but when I woke up and saw it was raining, I thought it didn't bode well.
No one had driven here in the rain before, so it was unclear what to expect. You could literally crash the car in every corner, and the qualifying could easily have ended there. But when a session runs in such difficult conditions, I'm all the more happy that I managed to succeed."
Oscar Piastri (5th): "Yellow flags interrupted my final lap. I don't know what position I would have been in without that, because there were other issues as well — in particular the start of the lap wasn't great, and not everything went the way I wanted.
Overall, it's hard to say how much quicker I could have done the lap, but I can say for sure that we didn't achieve the maximum possible result. At the same time we have a good car — it seems to work pretty well in any conditions. And I still believe we have a chance to confidently lead the race — let's hope I can make up a few positions."
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