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Pole-sitter Lando Norris says he has nothing to prove in Sunday\u2019s Hungarian Grand Prix, despite not having won since his maiden victory in Miami in May.<\/b><\/p>\n
Norris said a one-two on the grid with team-mate Oscar Piastri alongside him and ahead of championship leader Max Verstappen is \u201cdefinitely once again a good opportunity [to win] for both of us and for us as a team to score some big points, and that\u2019s the target\u201d.<\/p>\n
But he rejected suggestions that it was important to lay down a marker after challenging for wins in Imola, Canada, Spain, Austria and the UK but just missing out.<\/p>\n
The Briton said: \u201cEvery single qualifying is important and every single race is important. It\u2019s not all of a sudden I need to do it and prove my point – I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have done the best we could in every race. We have shown great pace and opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know we have missed out on some and we don\u2019t need to go back into all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norris said before the race weekend that McLaren had \u201cdefinitely been the most consistent team\u201d since introducing a big upgrade package in Miami, but \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve had a dominant weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n
So far, Hungary is the closest they have come. Norris was fastest in Friday practice and in the final session on Saturday before qualifying, and again in the second session of a difficult wet-dry qualifying period before taking pole.<\/p>\n
Norris managed to take pole despite only having one one set of new tyres for the final session while his rivals had two.<\/p>\n
Norris was 0.328 seconds quicker than Verstappen. But after Piastri and Verstappen had used their second set of new tyres, Piastri closed to within 0.022secs and Verstappen 0.046secs.<\/p>\n
It was McLaren’s first one-two on the grid since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix, when Lewis Hamilton led Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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