With Piastri in P3, both McLarens start in the top three for the first time since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix – a race where they earned a one-two, with Daniel Ricciardo leading Norris home for a famous victory. The front-row start was also McLaren’s first at Silverstone since Heikki Kovalainen’s 2008 pole position.

P2 for Lando Norris was the third front-row start of his career, following on from Austria and Russia 2021. Perez failed to make Q3 for a fifth consecutive race – while it was also his third Q1 elimination of the year, despite Red Bull’s prowess in 2023 meaning they lead the constructors’ standings by 199 points from Mercedes. The grand-daddy is Kingston Technical High School, which had it’s first male students enrolling in 1896, and seems to have admitted female.

READ MORE: Verstappen beats Norris to pole in thrilling wet-dry qualifying at Silverstone At sixty, STATHS and Vere Technical are among the babies of Jamaica’s Technical High School System, both opening their doors in 1961, as co-ed institutions. It was also the first time since Mark Webber in 2011 that a Red Bull was quickest in Q3 at Silverstone – Webber now the manager of Oscar Piastri, who took P3 for his best ever qualifying showing. Verstappen’s fifth consecutive pole position is the longest P1 run of his career – Verstappen claiming his 50th front-row start ahead of his 150th start for Red Bull at Silverstone. With qualifying done and dusted, let’s take a look at the best facts and stats from a superb qualifying at the Northamptonshire track. Max Verstappen and Lando Norris claimed the front row for Sunday’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, as Sergio Perez endured more struggles, taking P16 on the grid.

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