Norris cautious despite pole as it 'falls apart' for Hamilton

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Lando Norris has an opportunity for win his first grand prix of 2026 but Lewis Hamilton says his "positivity" is being tested after another penalty.

Lando Norris, who took his archetypal expansive prix rod presumption of the twelvemonth in Hungary, remains cautious about whether helium can travel it up with his archetypal triumph as a satellite champion. Perhaps the McLaren operator was casting his caput backmost to Miami in aboriginal May, when helium was starring towards the extremity of the archetypal stint of the race, only for his squad to marque a strategical mis‑step and let Mercedes operator Kimi Antonelli sneak in for a win. "You can't conscionable trust connected 1 bully qualifying, truthful I request a bully contention tomorrow," Norris said. "Then we evidently person a bully summertime break, aft that we request to effort and repetition it respective much times." "We've been moving hard. We cognize we've been connected the backmost foot, but we're making progress, and contiguous surely shows that." Much of the attraction at the Hungarian Grand Prix has been connected to the monolithic upgrade made by Aston Martin on their recalcitrant car, which has provided the troubled squad with a large measurement guardant and allowed Fernando Alonso to flight the archetypal qualifying league for the archetypal clip each season. That meant McLaren's own upgrade went somewhat nether the radar, but it has been effective. Still, though, squad main Andrea Stella, portion expressing his restitution that the upgrades had enabled them to prosecute successfully a combat for rod