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McLaren’s Lando Norris took his third career pole position on Saturday for the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix and laid down a marker to standings leader Max Verstappen. Norris is the double world champion’s nearest rival, 84 points adrift, and will hope to slash the gap in Sunday’s race. Rain drops in Budapest changed the dynamic after Norris had topped the timesheets in sunny final practice earlier on Saturday. But the Briton, who won in Miami this year, set 1 minute 15.227 seconds in Hungaroring qualifying for his second pole of the season as McLaren continued their huge leap in performanc…

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