QPR boosted their promotion credentials as they overcame an early red card to secure three points against Norwich thanks to Martin Rowlands' free-kick.
The visitors were down to 10 men when Matthew Connolly received a second yellow card after just 25 minutes.
Just five minutes later Rowlands opened the scoring when his free-kick from 20 yards evaded everyone, including keeper David Marshall.
The hosts dominated the second period but could not find a breakthrough.
Norwich boss Glenn Roeder: "I'm not here to make excuses, our build-up was slow, we were not creative enough and too many of our players put in below-average performances.
"I don't necessarily think QPR did enough to deserve a win but what they did do was defend very well.
"They are a big, powerful strong team and we didn't play well enough to break them down."
QPR boss Iain Dowie: "I thought our response to going a man down was terrific.
"We got our goal and then defended superbly, while we could have easily have gone further ahead ourselves.
"It's a very pleasing result, much more pleasing than Sunday when we won 4-1 because this was a real backs to the wall team effort.
"All 10 men who stayed on did an excellent job, as did the substitutes. "I'm delighted for the lads."
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