Max Verstappen makes a fifth consecutive pole place after British Grand Prix qualifying

As is so usually the case on race weekends, reigning world champion Max Verstappen will begin on pole, this time for the British Grand Prix.

On a drizzly day in Northamptonshire Verstappen seemed unruffled – a story as outdated as time this season.

There was one second of raised eyebrows on his pit-wall when he understeered on the end of Q1, seeing him clip the wall and break his entrance wing when returning into the storage.

However from there the two-time champion, with a patched wing, was setting purple quickest sector after purple quickest sector and took pole with a time of 1:26:720, narrowly edging out Lando Norris, who will be part of him on the entrance row.

The ocean of papaya that’s scattered among the many file crowd at Silverstone over the weekend roared when Norris crossed the road and the Brit will fancy his probabilities in a drastically improved McLaren. His team-mate, Oscar Piastri, produced a powerful third.

Max Verstappen was quickest in qualifying as he secures one other pole place

Lando Norris made it aggressive on the finish however needed to accept a second-placed end

Lewis Hamilyon fell to seventh throughout Q3, with teammate George Russell ending sixth

‘Yeah child!’ Norris exclaimed on staff radio. This, in entrance of a house crowd, was one to savour for the emotional 23-year-old.

Verstappen’s pole, his fifth in a row, got here as little shock and, honestly, neither did a irritating session for Lewis Hamilton, who will begin seventh.

The Mercedes driver spun off 75 seconds into qualifying, dropping his rear tyres heading into Stowe, however harm was minimal and he prevented the ignominy of a Q1 exit.

That honour befell Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez, who will begin Sunday’s race from sixteenth following a disastrous session.

Earlier, qualifying had been delivered to a halt by way of a purple flag with simply over three minutes remaining in Q1 when Haas’ Kevin Magnussen stopped on observe because of a mechanical fault.

And when motion resumed, with Perez first out on observe, the out-of-form Purple Bull driver may do little to arrest his disaster of confidence, strengthening Verstappen’s grip on profitable a 3rd world title.

Nyck de Vries, Guanyu Zhou and Yuki Tsunoda have been the opposite three drivers to fall in Q1.

Elsewhere it has been Williams which were the discuss of the paddock – apart from Brad Pitt and the Hollywood movie crew capturing a film – this weekend they usually delivered.

Regardless of a shaky begin to qualifying they rallied impressively and Alex Albon, who went second quickest in ultimate observe, completed a sensible eighth.

Alpine’s Pierre Gasly completed tenth, with Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso in ninth.