Why F1’s third-biggest pole gap of 2024 is being taken with a “pinch of salt”

The fight for pole position in Formula 1 recently has more often than not been a matter of ekeing out the final hundredths of a second.Qualifying battles like Hungary, where Lando Norris edged out McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by 0.022 seconds, or Spain, where the Briton pipped Max Verstappen, are typical of the kind of gaps that we have got used to.So as F1 returned from the summer break for ...Keep reading