168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen delivered a memorable sound bi꧂te over team radio after sec☂uring pole position for the sprint race in Miami.

Heading into SQ3, McLaren’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris looked t🌸o be the favourite to take pole for the Saturday𒐪 sprint.

However, as Norris’ charge f♍ജaltered, it was Verstappen who delivered when it mattered, despite putting together a scrappy lap.

Verstappen ultimately claimed pole for the sprint by just over a tenth ahead of Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

The Dutchman was clearly surprised when he was told by race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase 🐎that he claimed pole.

Verstappen said𝔍: "LOL. What happened to the others? This was terrib﷽le.

"I mean I will take it!"

Explaining fur🐼ther why he was surprised to take top spot, Verstappen conceded that the performance of his Red𒊎 Bull “didn’t feel great”

"It felt really terrible. Maybe that last session wa⛎s just incredibly difficult to get the tyres to work,”꧒ he said.

"Already inꦏ SQ2 I didn't feel great. SQ3, it just felt quite similܫar for me.

"I didn't really improve on the soft. Somehow we were first. Of cours꧋e, I happily take it.

"But it didn't feel enjoyable out there to drive for wh𓆉atever reason because in practice it felt really, really nice, I was very comfortable and confident, qualify♓ing, not so much.

"It might be the track lay💦out a little bit. I thought after practice, I was quite confident we could fight for pole, then in qualifying it didn't really look like that for me.

"But somehow we ended up in first. I don't know what happened to the other cars on that ⛦last lap."

Verstappen hasn't been beaten in a sprint race since the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, when he finished behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri.

Since the introduction of the sprint format in 2021, Verstappen has won eight times - six more than the next driver (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas: 2).