Lando Norris says that he expected it to be "tight" in qualifying after leading team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri to a McLaren one-two in Friday practice at the Austrian Grand Prix.

Qualifying takes place from around 6 PM Kenyan time live from the Red Bull Ring in Salzburg.

Norris was 0.157 seconds quicker than Piastri, with Red Bull's Max Verstappen third fastest, 0.318 seconds off the pace. Aston Martin's Lance Stroll took fourth place, ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and the Mercedes of George Russell.

Austria, which is round 11 of the Formula 1 championship, will see McLaren, Red Bull and Ferrari all have upgrades to their cars this weekend.

McLaren have new front suspension shaping that is aimed at working with a new front wing that was first tested at the last race in Canada and after the session, Norris told the BBC "the car felt good from the off".

Red Bull have a new floor edge and Verstappen told the BBC: "We didn't have any big issues; just lacking a bit of pace, a bit too much understeer in the car as well - short run and long run. That is something that we have to try and get rid of."

Ferrari, for whom Lewis Hamilton was 10th fastest, have a completely redesigned new floor, their first upgrade since Bahrain in April.

"A huge amount of work went on to bring the floor but as you can see, it's not necessarily changed our competitiveness.," Hamilton told the BBC. "The car actually doesn't feel bad, it's just we're a huge chunk off pace-wise. We need to look into that."

Hamilton, who had issues with the gearbox in first practice, said he hopes Ferrari can improve, but added: "We won't be at the front."

Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda was seventh, while Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto, Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso and Hamilton completed the top 10.

Piastri leads the Formula 1 driver's championships with 198 points. His teammate Norris has 176. Third-placed Max Verstappen has so far collected 155 points to round off the top three.