Max Verstappen’s F1 race engineer dared him to do 1m28 pole lap as radio message explained
The Red Bull driver crushed his rivals with a devastating performance iཧn qualifying as he claimed a dominant pole position at Suzuka.
Having already set a lap time good enough for pole, Verstappen went even quicker on his final run of Q3, posting a 1m28.877s which put him a massive 0.581s clear of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri’s McLaren.
“There you go, 28,” the reigning world champion told Lambiase over team radio during his cool down lap back to the pits.&nbs♚p;
Asked about th🍎e radio exchange in the post-qualifying press conference, Verstappen confirmed he had been egged on by his race engin🍰eer.
“Y𒁏eah, he told me like 1:28 would be ni꧙ce,” Verstappen said.
“I said ‘Don’t worry, I’m gonna send it’ and then he was like, ‘Yeah,♏ but like don’t shunt the car, righ💞t?’
“I was like, ‘Yeah, ❀obviously, that’s not wh෴at I want to do’.”
Verstappen added: “I knew that there was still a little bit left in a few place🐷s.
“That’s wha𝕴t I tried to tidy up, which worked out quite well.”
Red Bull team princ🧔ipal Christian Horner said Lambiase was “winding” Verstappen up ahead of hꦦis final qualifying lap.
“GP [Lambiase] started winding him up for the last run, to say ‘Let’s see a 28 today’,” Horner told Sky꧟.
“I said to GP ‘Look, I’d like to see four wheels on the car at the en📖d of it!’
“That first run loo🍨ked good enough to get the job ꦑdone, but then he just went quicker again.
“All his laps have been stunning today. He’s done three laps on new tyres, and the lap on scrubbed tyres in Q2 t🌠o go second fastest… it has been an absolutely mind-blowing 🍎performance.”
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