It was an important declaration for Norris, which was overshadowed by Piastri this season and the Briton follows his 13 -point teammate before the race. It was his first pole since the opening race of the season in March.
Norris said: “It’s been a long time.
“It was a nice tour, a well -put tour. It feels good when everything comes together.”
Leclerc, disappointed to miss the post, reduced traffic during his first final qualifying round, which, according to him, said that he had entered his last blind.
“There is always more to do, but it was the best we can do,” he said.
“The tour was really good. We know that we don’t have the car for the victories this year, but this weekend, the car felt good, from second place here, it will be difficult to take this first place.”
Piastri said: “Intense, as there are always here. It was reminiscent of last year. My first round was good, then the second when I made a mistake in the chicane of the port and I left a little.
“Always quite happy, it was a fairly disorderly weekend so far, so go out with a turn that I thought pretty good and third, I’m quite happy.
“I think I struck more walls this weekend than during my entire career. I just find it difficult to enter the groove. We did digests this weekend and get out with a third is quite good.”
The fourth place in Hamilton, 0.319 seconds off Leclerc, was its best qualification result of the season apart from taking pole for the sprint in China.
He faces an investigation to hinder Verstappen in the first part of the qualification, and if he is found guilty, he would have a grid penalty.
Verstappen was 0.606 seconds excluding pole and faces a difficult race, even with the minimum compulsory strategy in two stages imposed on all teams this year to try to add an additional intrigue and interest in the race.
The quadruple champion said: “I immediately felt the Q1, we lacked a little in the two sector. Every corners of the low -speed mechanical handle where the track falls from you and you have to set up borders, this is where we fought the most and we never seemed to improve.
“It’s just a weakness that we have in the air, the corners at low speed are not good, we know, and he just highlighted this weekend.”
George Russell of Mercedes only qualified 14th after his car broke down in the tunnel at the start of the second session, with a suspected battery problem.
And his teammate Kimi Antonelli crashed at the end of the first session after hitting the inner wall with the chicane, and will start the 15th.
Briton Oliver Bearman qualified 17th in his haas but has a 10 -seat penalty to hinder Friday training and start with the back accordingly.
