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But Norris went off track on the exit of Turn One and came close to losing control at the hairpin a number of times.

He ran on to the kerb at Degner One, twice had an oversteer moment at the hairpin, and then a big wobble out of the final chicane.

Leclerc challenged Russell for second, tracking right behind the Mercedes from laps 25 to 28 before a snap at the hairpin gave Russell some breathing space.

Norris had a slide at Turn 13 on his first lap, followed by the error at the hairpin on his second.

But a few days before Christmas, a string quartet hauled its instruments up the hairpin stone pathway, into a Franklin Hills living room for amonthly house-show series.