Pakistan, Aug. 23 -- Lando Norris found unexpected pace to beat his rivals and the weather to take pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix on Saturday after George Russell took a sprint race win on Formula 1's return from its mid-season break. As rain started to fall on the Zandvoort track, McLaren's Norris made the most of his final run to reclaim pole by 0.102 of a second from Russell, whose Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli - the standings leader - was third. "A little surprised, honestly, but a decent lap," said Norris, who'd been critical of his car in the earlier sprint race and credited McLaren with making the right changes.

"We had to try something because what we had before wasn't going to be enough," he said, adding the changes w...