Max Verstappen only needed one run in Q3 to snare his fourth pole of the 2023 F1 season in Barcelona. But as mattkewF1 explains, the Red Bull driver was on course for an even faster lap that he aborted in a telling sign of his advantage this weekend ⬇️
Yet his dash to pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix was made that bit easier again when the only other driver to top a qualifying shootout this term, Charles Leclerc,. Two more big scalps were claimed in Q2 as Sergio Perez and George Russell were also eliminated.
But unlike numerous past cases of a Red Bull driver running early in Q3 to then jump out of the car and wait for events to unfold, safe in the knowledge their pole was secure, Verstappen insisted he head out for one last lap. He flashed purple by the point he hit the brakes into Turn 10. A run time of 28.903s was not only 0.251s quicker than any other driver managed through the second sector, but also 0.161s up on his own pole effort.
"By Turn 10, I was already almost two tenths under my own time, so it still would have been a nice lap. But in the end, it wasn't necessary."
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