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F1 Brazilian GP: Lando Norris pops to the top of timesheets with upgraded McLaren in FP1
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Key Points:
- Lando Norris set the fastest lap in FP1 at Interlagos with a time of 1m11.717s, narrowly beating Kimi Antonelli by 0.082 seconds.
- Max Verstappen finished third, 0.236 seconds behind Norris, while Lewis Hamilton was the fastest Ferrari driver in fourth place, 0.324 seconds off the pace.
- George Russell secured fifth position, 0.386 seconds slower than Norris, followed by Isack Hadjar in sixth, 0.439 seconds behind.
- Rookie Gabriele Mini impressed with seventh place, just under a tenth of a second quicker than Alpine teammate Franco Colapinto in ninth.
- The top 10 was rounded out by Bortoleto in eighth and Liam Lawson in tenth, both nearly a second off Norris’s leading time, indicating a competitive but spread-out field in early practice.
