The two-time world champion posted two la💃ps good enough for pole in Q3 on his way to topping qualifying for the seventh time this season, 0.228s clear of Perez, who secured a Red Bull front-row lockout. 

Verstappen will be eyeing his 15th victory of an already record-bre💫aking 2022 campaign in Sunday’s grand prix. 

• F1 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Full Qualifying✃ results

"It was a bit of an up and down qualifying. It started off quite w꧂ell," said Verstappen. "Q2 was a little b🃏it messy. I don’t know why 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 fജirst run, so we had to reboot everything. Then we went out and both of the laps were good enough."  

Perez’s late improvement saw him leapfrog 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, who outpaced Ferrari teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz by two tenths. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton was over six tenths adrift of Verstappen’s pole effort as he took fifth with a lap just 0.003s faster than Mercedes teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell. 

McLaren’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris took seventh ahead of Alpine’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon and Aston Martin’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sebastian Vettel, who was ninth in his final qualif💦ying of his F1 career. 

Outgoing McLaren driver168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Daniel Ricciardo completed the top-10, 1.2s off the pace. 

Fernando Alonso narrowly missed out on a spot in Q3 as he took 11th for Alpine, ahead of AlphaTauri’s Yuki🥂 T🦄sunoda. 

Mick Schumacher was 13th-fastest in his final qualifying session for Haas, a tenth clear of Aston Martin’s Lance⛦ Stroll and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu. 🦋;

Kevin Magnussen failed to follow his Haas team🌺mateꦍ into Q2 and was dumped out in 16th, ahead of AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly. 

Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas could only qualify 18th, ah▨ead of the Williams pair of Alex Albon and Nicholas Latifi, who was slowest of all in qualifying for the 10th time this season.