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Lando Norris beat home hero Max Verstappen to claim pole position for Formula 1's Dutch Grand Prix.
Norris romped to pole with a huge improvement on his final qualifying lap, finding four tenths between his first and second Q3 push laps.
That first lap had been good enough to hold provisional pole before the final runs ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri and Verstappen.
Q3 after run 1
Norris 1m10.074s
Piastri +0.119s
Verstappen +0.148s
Verstappen then displaced Norris with his final flier, but Norris went over three and a half tenths faster than Verstappen to claim his fourth grand prix pole.
Piastri had to settle for third on the grid with only a minor improvement on his final lap.
Q3 after run 2
Norris 1m09.673s
Verstappen +0.356s
Piastri +0.499s
Mercedes' sole Q3 representative George Russell was the last driver over the line and knocked the second Red Bull of Sergio Perez off the second row.
Perez had to settle for fifth ahead of Charles Leclerc and the fastest Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso.
"I cannot do more than this," Alonso declared after completing his sole Q3 lap in the gap before the final laps of the frontrunners.
He had looked slower than team-mate Lance Stroll throughout qualifying but when it mattered Alonso claimed seventh ahead of Alex Albon - a strong debut for the upgraded Williams - Stroll and the Alpine of Pierre Gasly.
Nightmare for Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton, who has won two of the last three races, suffered a fraught qualifying hour that started with a close call with Perez.
Perez found Hamilton in his path at the Turn 2 right-hander, prompting Perez to refer to Hamilton as an 'idiot' and triggering a post-session investigation to determine whether Hamilton impeded Perez.
Hamilton had comfortably breezed through Q1 otherwise but he ended up 12th and out of qualifying by the end of Q2 with a messy final lap. He suffered a snap of oversteer through Turn 1 and struggled to harry his W15 through the Turn 8-10 complex.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz - lacking dry running after a mileage-limited second Friday practice - was the other big-name casualty, ending up 11th ahead of Hamilton, RB's Yuki Tsunoda and the Haas duo of Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen.
Ricciardo out in Q1
Daniel Ricciardo was dumped out of Q1 in 16th, coming up 0.111s short of a place in Q2. That marks the 10th time team-mate Tsunoda has outqualified him this year and his fourth Q1 exit of the year.
He was joined in the bottom five by an irritated Esteban Ocon, who said his Alpine had been a "disaster" since the start of the weekend, and the two Saubers of Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu, separated by 1.1s.
A huge crash in final practice wrecked Logan Sargeant's Williams and left his team facing a losing battle to get his car ready for qualifying, consigning Sargeant to a last-place start at a track where he qualified 10th at in 2023.
