Max Verstappen was master and commander at the Belgian Grand Prix qualifying. On the wet track, Max set the fastest time.
With a 1:53.159 time, he was 6-tenths of a second faster than Charles Leclerc in P2. Max, however, will be starting from P11 tomorrow due to a ten-place grid penalty for replacing the engine in his car. Therefore 11th place was the best possible result for the three time world champion. His Oracle Red Bull Racing-teammate Sergio Perez was third fastest, placing him next to Charles Leclerc on the front row.
After his winning lap, Max debriefs: “It was a nice qualifying. Luckily the weather was okay, it was just raining a little bit. But at least we could do the qualifing. Everything worked well, every tyre that we were on we could just do a good lap time.
I was of course thinking about Q3, not knowing if it was going to dry out (then), so I was trying to keep two new sets for Q3, and luckily we (got away) with it in Q1 and Q2. So (I’m) very happy, the car was working quite well in the wet. I could just do my laps, and then try to do as many lap times in the wet (as possible), which is also quite tricky. ”
In spite of his fast lap on the wet track, Max sees a difficult road ahead, starting from P11: “Tomorrow is going to be a different day. It’s going to be warmer, normally (there’s) no rain, so (it’ll all be about) tyre degradation.
We need to make sure we’re good on that. I know that, of course, I start ten places back, so this was the best I could do today. I’ll go from there. I don’t know how quick we’re gonna be, I hope we’ll be in the mix, and then try to move forward.”
Max elaborates further: “We’re not making it easy on ourselves, and especially in the battle that we’re in. I know that today was a great day, but it’s in the wet. We need to be quick in the dry tomorrow. It’s going to be a tough battle. We’ll try to do the best we can, hopefully we can battle the Ferraris and the Mercedes ahead, and with a bit of luck we can challange McLaren.”
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