Lando Norris says his qualifying session was “awful” after a small mistake resulted in his best lap time being deleted and dropped him from third place to start seventh at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. McLaren looked slightly off the pace on Friday but showed strong performance on Saturday, with Norris comfortably leading the way over teammate Daniel Ricciardo. On his final Q3 attempt, Norris set the fastest first two sectors and looked like he might snatch pole position before ending up just shy in second place, but before he was bested by Red Bull's Sergio Perez his lap time was deleted for exceeding track limits by a tiny margin at Turn 9.
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