#F1 #SprintQualifying: @McLarenF1’s @LandoNorris storms to #MiamiGP #F1Sprint pole.
Lando Norris, #4, Mastercard McLaren Formula 1 Team-Mercedes, MCL40, celebrating his sixth-career Sprint pole position in Parc Ferme, Sprint Qualifying, Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix 2026, Miami International Autodrome, Miami, Florida, United States of America. Image credit to Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images. Norris Miami Sprint Pole, 2026 Miami GP Sprint Qualifying Results, F1 Miami GP Sprint Qualifying Results, Formula 1 Miami Sprint Qualifying Results.
Norris Miami Sprint Pole – Reigning world champion Lando Norris put his upgraded MCL40 racer in pole position for tomorrow’s 100-kilometre F1 Sprint Race ahead of current World Driver’s Championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli who split the McLaren duo as Oscar Piastri completed the top three.
This was Norris’s sixth Sprint pole position of his career, and the Briton becomes the first to outqualify a works Mercedes this season.
In SQ3, the top ten just went out for one flying lap. It began with Mercedes’ George Russell registering the first lap-time of a 1:28.493, with Hamilton slotting into P2 with his 1:28.618 effort.
Norris was next posting a 1:27.869 going quickest by 0.370 seconds over Leclerc who jumped to second with his 1:28.239.
Franco Colapinto was the lead Alpine jumping into fifth on a 1:29.320 and ahead of team-mate Pierre Gasly only briefly as Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar split the duo with a 1:29.422.
Verstappen with a purple sector three ended up fifth with his 1:28.461 after McLaren’s Piastri moved to provisional second behind his team-mate Norris on a 1:28.108 but was pipped by Antonelli’s 1:28.091 to prevent the Woking-based team from taking a front-row-lockout.
Leclerc lines up on the second row of the Sprint grid alongside Piastri to take fourth.
Mercedes’ Russell took sixth alongside former team-mate Hamilton who placed seventh for Ferrari.
Colapinto, Hadjar and Gasly rounded out the top ten.
In SQ2, which was topped by Leclerc, the Audi pairing of Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg ended up outside the top ten in 11th and 12th respectively.
Bortoleto missed out on an SQ3 appearance by a slim 0.021 seconds and could not improve on his final flyer.
Haas’s Oliver Bearman took 13th and in-front of Williams pairing Alexander Albon and Carlos Sainz who were 14th and 15th in the order.
RB’s Arvid Lindblad was the slowest of the SQ2 eliminatees in 16th.
In SQ1, which was topped by Norris, a late improvement from Albon eliminated RB’s Liam Lawson by 0.055 seconds and the Kiwi ends up 17th on the grid for tomorrow’s 100km Sprint.
Haas’s Esteban Ocon was next in 18th and in-front of the Cadillac pairing Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas who were 19th and 20th respectively.
The Aston Martin’s of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll brought up the rear.
You can see the full Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix 2026 Sprint Qualifying Results Classification at the link: https://www.formula1.com/en/results/2026/races/1284/miami/sprint-qualifying
2026 Miami GP Sprint Pole Position – Lando Norris, #4, Mastercard McLaren Formula 1 Team, Mercedes, MCL40 – 1:27.869:
“Perfect result for us, nice way to reward the team. We have some upgrades on the car and it was nice to feel some grip again. Just the beginning of the weekend, but a nice result for us. This track has always been good to us. We knew what we were bringing would be a step and it is. Since the first lap today I felt comfortable, I felt like I had some rear grip. My SQ2 was pretty woeful, I was a second off and it didn’t fill me with confidence. But we got everything in a good window, and the lap was good apart from one corner, Turn 16, completely missed it. Just happy to be back here, it has been a little while!
