Lando Norris was fastest in the second practice session at the Italian Grand Prix on Friday as the McLaren driver bids to cut into his teammate Oscar Piastri’s handy Formula One championship lead.

Briton Norris topped the times with a fastest lap of one minute 19.878 seconds, less than one hundredth of a second faster than Ferrari’s home hope Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz of Williams.

The 25-year-old trails Piastri by 34 points in the drivers’ standings after a mechanical failure forced him out of last weekend’s Dutch GP in the final laps.

Norris will hope that a broken wing mirror early in the session won’t bring him more bad luck, although it didn’t affect his performance on Friday.

“Normally by this point we have like a one-second gap on everyone! But at the moment it looks just

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