Spanish GP: Lando Norris beats Kimi Antonelli to first pole position at Madring after thrilling qualifying finale

The McLaren driver hadn't appeared to be in contention for pole at any point of the session, but found a huge amount of pace on his final run to edge out championship leader Antonelli by 11 thousandths of a second.

Max Verstappen, who had surged into pole contention earlier in the session, edged out Lewis Hamilton for third after the Ferrari driver produced a strong recovery having crashed in final practice earlier on Saturday.

Charles Leclerc start behinds his Ferrari team-mate in fifth, while Antonelli's Mercedes team-mate and nearest championship challenger, George Russell, could only manage sixth.

The remarkable nature of Norris' lap was further highlighted by a near-half second gap to his team-mate Oscar Piastri in seventh.

Norris said: "I'm shocked! A little bit surprised to be here now. My god, that was probably one of the best laps I've done in my career.

"Very, very happy. Very proud, very happy for the team. Just one of those laps where everything came together.

"I had a good idea of what I wanted to do. It was whether my brain let me do it on the last lap. Everything pretty much worked perfectly."

Sunday September 13 8.40am: F3 Feature Race 2 10.20am: F2 Feature Race 12.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Spanish GP build-up 2pm: THE SPANISH GRAND PRIX 4pm: Chequered Flag: Spanish GP reaction 5pm: Ted's Notebook

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