Norris Tops Oscar Piastri in Sao Paulo Practice
The British driver has outscored his teammate at all of the previous five race weekends.
The McLaren driver just pipped team-mate and championship contender the Australian for the top spot in the dying seconds of practice at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The British racer, who grabbed the title advantage from his teammate by one point after winning in Mexico City a fortnight back, outpaced the Melbourne-born driver by a tiny margin of 0.023secs.
Until that point, Piastri had been the fastest McLaren driver throughout the hour before the sprint shootout set to begin at 6:30 PM GMT.
The Red Bull star, the sole remaining contender in realistic title contention, trailing 36 points Norris, ended up in P17 as his team ran a different programme.
Verstappen's team-mate the Japanese driver was the sole competitor to have an incident, if briefly, when he spun at the fourth corner soon after starting.
Tsunoda lost control over the curbs on exit before rotating through the gravel trap, and was blessed to avoid just a slight brush of the wall.
Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton also spun, at the final moments of the practice, rotating twice through the fast downhill corner leading to the final corner on to the pit straight.
The veteran wrapped up in 19th place, one place behind team-mate the Monegasque driver.
The McLaren pair were well clear of the rest of the field, with the German's Sauber third fastest, 0.619 seconds slower than Piastri's best.
The Aston Martin of the Spanish driver was in fourth, with the Sauber of Bortoleto in front of Mercedes' Russell and Alpine's Pierre Gasly and the Williams of Sainz.
