Lando Norris hit back after a tricky start to practice for McLaren to set the second practice pace at the Las Vegas Grand Prix before the end of the session was heavily disrupted by a loose manhole cover.

After McLaren's pre-event concerns that the Las Vegas Strip Circuit may again not play to their strengths appeared to be realised during a difficult start to Friday's running, Norris was back on the pace in the second session and set a day-best time of 1:33.602 to outpace Mercedes' in-form Kimi Antonelli by 0.029s.

However, the final timesheet came with a significant caveat given neither of Norris' two title rivals - Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen - the two Ferraris nor Mercedes' George Russell, last year's dominant race winner, completed their own laps on the soft tyre due to a track

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