168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen believes his Red Bull doesn’t belong on the front row for the F1 Chinese Grand Prix sprint race.

The reigning world champion will start second for Saturday’s sprint race in Shanghai after being narrowly beaten to pole position by Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton.

Despite missing out on the fastest time by just 0.018s, Verstappen was delighted with his result, insisting his Red Bull does not hꦗave the inherent pace to warrant his P2 st♛arting position.

"I'm very happy. In practice, we were quite a bit off so I'm very happy to be on the front row,” said the Dutchman, who was only 16th in Friday’s sole♓ practice session.

"The lap was very good. It's always very tough when you go from a mediu🎐m to soft with no references and when you look at it, 0.018s off pole, I don't even think we should have been on the front row anyway so I'm vꦚery happy to be second.

"The balance was not massively off. We were jus💎t too ꧟slow but this is good for us,” Verstappen continued.

“A little motivation✅ boost for everyone that we keep nailing the laps and maximising everything you have got and you need to do that as well when you are strugglꦫing a bit more for pace.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris could only take third and sixth, but Verstappen still doesn’t think th�ꦬ�e Red Bull is quick enough to challenge the McLaren duo.

"They looked very fast up un⛎til that last run, so it will be hard to keep them behind,” he insisted. “Hopefully it will be fun and we can race a bit, that would be nice for me.”

Contrasting fortunes for Red Bull drivers 

Verstappen’s new teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson suffered a disastrous qualifying and was eliminated in SQ1 with the slowest time, meaning he will start 20th and last for the ✨sprint race.

The result means that former F1 title rivals Hamilton and🦹 Verstappen wil𒅌l share the front row of the grid.

"Verstappen vs Hamilton into Turn 1, Piastri in behind. What can Norris do? I'm pumped,” saꦚid Sky 𓃲Sports F1 pundit Karun Chandhok.