Silverstone F3: McLaren's Norris tops first qualifying by 0.006s

Norris was in a three-way fight with Prema duo Callum Ilott and Maximilian Gunther in the second half of the session, with the trio trading the lead several times.

The Carlin driver was the last to improve, his 1m50.094s just six thousandths of a second better than Ilott's time.

Gunther had to settle for third despite being less than a tenth adrift.

BMW protege Joel Eriksson was fourth, followed by another Carlin rookie Jehan Daruvala.

Ferrari junior Guan Yu Zhou was sixth ahead of Nikita Mazepin, who was the fastest Hitech driver in the session.

Stand-in Jake Dennis, who is only confirmed for the first three rounds of the season, took eighth, but was still less than four tenths slower than his teammate.

Two more rookies in Joey Mawson, who beat his three more experienced teammates at Van Amersfoort Racing by four tenths, and Honda's Tadasuke Makino completed the top 10.

Makino beat Hitech teammate Jake Hughes by 0.007s, who in turn was just ahead of Mick Schumacher, the German kicking off his F3 career in 12th.

Qualifying results:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Delay
1	Lando Norris	Carlin	1'50.094
2	Callum Ilott	Prema Powerteam	1'50.100	0.006
3	Maximilian Gunther	Prema Powerteam	1'50.179	0.085
4	Joel Eriksson	Motopark	1'50.304	0.210
5	Jehan Daruvala	Carlin	1'50.377	0.283
6	Guan Yu Zhou	Prema Powerteam	1'50.416	0.322
7	Nikita Mazepin	Hitech GP	1'50.460	0.366
8	Jake Dennis	Carlin	1'50.481	0.387
9	Joey Mawson	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'50.510	0.416
10	Tadasuke Makino	Hitech GP	1'50.600	0.506
11	Jake Hughes	Hitech GP	1'50.607	0.513
12	Mick Schumacher	Prema Powerteam	1'50.668	0.574
13	Ralf Aron	Hitech GP	1'50.847	0.753
14	Pedro Piquet	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'50.915	0.821
15	David Beckmann	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'50.937	0.843
16	Harrison Newey	Van Amersfoort Racing	1'50.938	0.844
17	Ferdinand Habsburg	Carlin	1'51.001	0.907
18	Marino Sato	Motopark	1'51.015	0.921
19	Keyvan Soori	Motopark	1'51.792	1.698