Listen to this article Norris, whose McLaren team had struggled for pace in the opening rounds of 2022, grabbed the opportunity Imola’s capricious weather conditions provided with both hands. After advancing to Q3 in a stop-start Q2, in which the rain that plagued practice returned, Norris found himself third on the provisional grid for Saturday’s sprint at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. In the rain-soaked top 10 shootout Norris’ early timed lap was again good enough for third, and due to two red flags, one for Valtteri Bottas’ stricken Alfa Romeo and one for a late off by Norris himself, nobody else had the chance to clock a better laptime. That means Norris will start Saturday’s 21-lap sprint from his best grid position this season, but the Briton thinks he could have even snatched a front-row start off championship leader Charles Leclerc because his first banker lap was …