Max Verstappen says he was 'more on the edge with track limits' in his fight for AustrianGP pole against Leclerc and Sainz ahead of the F1 sprint race 📏 Here's the full story ⬇️
The Ferraris left the pits ahead of the Red Bull for the final 2m30s qualifying shootout.
Leclerc set a personal best first sector, lost time in the middle part of the lap but then set the fastest run of the session through the final sector to snatch provisional pole with a 1m05.013s. Verstappen, meanwhile, had missed his personal bests in the first and second sectors - albeit his slower time in S1 was still 0.07s up on Leclerc before he ceded 0.03s to theThe Red Bull driver then snatched top spot for the sprint race away from his rival, a personal best final sector just 0.002s slower than Leclerc to post a 1m04.984s benchmark.
Explaining his lap, Verstappen knew he had dropped time early on and therefore had to be"pretty spot on" and did so being aggressive with track limits through the final corners."Then we went out. My Turn 1 and 3 were not the best, so I knew that the rest of the lap needed to be pretty spot on here to be able to do something."And I think especially the last sector was a lot better than what I've done before, and more on the edge of course with the track limits.
"It was good. It was close. I knew it was going to be close but of course, it's always nice to just be ahead."
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