Verstappen finished third in Baku Saturday in the first Sprint race of 2023 but says it should be the last.
“It feels like you have a football match and it’s 3-0 for one team and then suddenly you just say let’s reset it to 0-0 and go again. I find it a bit unnecessary these kinds of things.”
“I got bored through today’s qualifying to be honest. I like to have one particular qualifying where you put everything in it and that was yesterday, which I of course enjoyed. Then you have to do it again today like ‘my god, another qualifying’, I just don’t really enjoy that.” Charles Leclerc claimed pole position for Sunday’s race and the Sprint Shootout before finishing runner-up to Perez in the Sprint race.“I don’t hate this format, I think it’s a better format than last year’s Sprint format,” said Leclerc.
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