Lando Norris pipped Oscar Piastri to the fastest time of the sole Interlagos practice session ahead of Friday evening's Sprint Qualifying at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

New title leader Norris produced a last-gasp pacesetting lap of 1:09.975 to get ahead of team-mate Piastri by 0.023s with the McLarens proving dominant on the practice timesheet going into the crucial Sprint weekend's first qualifying session at 6.30pm, live on Sky Sports F1 .

But, unlike the papaya cars, Max Verstappen did not run the medium tyres during the hour of running and finished down in an unrepresentative 17th place.

The Red Bull driver did briefly run on the quickest compound, the softs, late in the session but abandoned the lap after being half a second down on Piastri's benchmark at that point of the session

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