Max Verstappenleader of the Formula One World Championship, which begins this Sunday with the Australian Grand Prix, the third of the year, at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne which “Even though it was a more difficult weekend,” having pole position again was “great.”
The 26-year-old Dutchman sealed his thirty-fifth F1 pole position, his third of the year, by dominating Saturday’s qualifying, where the third and decisive round (Q3) covered 5,278 meters of the Melbourne track one minute, 15 seconds and 915 thousandths, 270 less than Sainz and 359 ahead of his teammate, Mexican Sergio Pérez.
“Even though it was a more difficult weekend, to have achieved pole position today is great. I did not expect. indeed, but we gradually improved throughout qualifying and I felt I could push more at the end,” explained ‘Mad Max’, who will try this Sunday to increase his record of victories in F1 to 57, the third of all time.
“Throughout the weekend we had problems with ‘graining’ and we had to solve a lot of things“, but what we need is to continue fine-tuning the car with the team,” said the Dutch star, who led the first two ‘doubles’ of the year – completed by his teammate, the Mexican Sergio Pérez – for Red Bull in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. .
“The balance of the car improved throughout qualifying; and as the session progressed it became easier to handle. And I was very happy with the laps we did in Q3 (the third and decisive round of qualifying), something “I was surprised,” explained the triple F1 world champion.
“Obviously, we have all the information from Q1 and Q2; and I think we did two very good laps,” he commented.
“Tomorrow is a bit of unknown territory, because it’s always easy to go wrong here; and tire management is more complicated,” warned Verstappen.
“Although the weekend was quite complicated for us and I don’t think that tomorrow will be an easy race, being on pole after the difficulties we experienced is something we can be proud of,” declared the head of the World Championship this Saturday at the Albert Park circuit.
Source: La Verdad
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