Spanish Grand Prix: Lando Norris has real opportunity after coming from nowhere with 'masterpiece' lap

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It says everything about the remarkable lap with which Lando Norris took pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix that it was a toss-up as to which was the most important and impressive of two striking statistics.

Or was it that in beating runaway championship leader Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes by 0.011 seconds, Norris had made a mistake at the final corner that cost him more than 0.3secs?

As Stella is someone who has worked with Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, his comments carry weight.

Norris said: "Most tracks, you know what is perfect, what you really want to achieve in a perfect lap. A very good day is when you get pretty close to that.

"So, yeah, it's a dream to achieve a lap like that. So it was easily one of the best laps I've ever done.

"So, very excited, very pleased and it's not often you achieve a lap like today and it's a pretty awesome feeling when you do."

Stella said: "The most impressive thing is the fact that it's a pole position despite having lost 0.35secs in the last corner, which means that it would have been a pretty convincing pole position without this issue.

Norris does not use a display on his dashboard showing his progress compared with his previous lap, the so-called delta, as most other drivers do.

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