F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Max Verstappen reveals ‘scare’ before final run of qualifying
The two-time world champion secured his seventh pole of the season, and his third consecutive at the Yas Marina Circuit, after outpacing Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez by two-tenths.
But Verstappen’s qualifying did not go complete🐭ly smoothly, with the Dutchman suffering a problem just before his first run of Q3.
"It was a bit of an up and down qualifying. It started oꦑff quite well," said Verstappen.
🥀"Q2 was a little bit messy. I don’t know why𝔉 but on those tyres I couldn’t get the grip together.
"But then in Q3 it all felt a bit more normal. We had a bit💎 of a scare, the car turned off before the first run, so we had to reboot evꦏerything. Then we went out and both of the laps were good enough.”
Verstappen and P🤡erez were at the centre of a team orders row that erupted at last weekend’s Sao Paulo Gr꧋and Prix, bu🌞t the pair insist they have put the incident behind them.
Perez will start one place ahead of Charle🐬s Leclerc, who is fighting to secure second plac🌼e in the F1 drivers’ standings.
And Verstappen said he🐓 is keen to help Perez seal runner-up spot i🐈n the championship.
"I’m very happy that both cars are on the front row, because of course we wa🅷nt to win the race, but we also want 🐼to finish second with Checo in the championship, so that’s definitely a great start before tomorrow,” he added.
"It always sounds gre🍌at. For sure today was amazing, I still expect it to be aꦦ a good battle tomorrow, but at least we have both cars there and we can do what we want."
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