“I don’t know, maybe that last session it was just incredibly difficult to get the tyres to work. Already in SQ2 I didn’t feel great. In SQ3, I think it just felt similar for me, I didn’t really improve a lot on the soft, but somehow we were first.
“Of course, I’ll happily take it, but it didn’t really feel enjoyable out there to drive for whatever reason. In practice, it felt really, really nice, I was very comfortable and confident, but in qualifying not so much.”
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Verstappen was then asked for his thoughts on Lando Norris and McLaren – who took pole for the Sprint race in China last time out – falling away when the soft tyres arrived in SQ3, and how close the field was when the session drew to a close.
“After practice I was quite confident that we could fight for pole, then in qualifying it didn’t really look like that, but somehow we still ended up in first,” he added, having finished a tenth clear of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. “I don’t know what happened to the other cars in the last lap.”
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