'I don't expect pole': Verstappen tips Mercedes to hit back at Spa | Wheels24
The Dutchman clocked a best lap in one minute and 43.744 seconds to outpace Ricciardo by 0.048 seconds, leaving championship leader Lewis Hamilton down in third for Mercedes, just 0.096 adrift of the pace-setter.
But he wound up ahead of Alex Albon in the second Red Bull, Sergio Perez of Racing Point and his own Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas who was celebrating his 31st birthday. The top ten were all within eight-tenths of a second of Verstappen, a tight bunching of lap times that suggests a close contest is in prospect for Saturday's qualifying and Sunday's race if the cooler conditions continue."I think the Red Bulls are just a little bit quicker at the moment, but even Racing Point I think is right with us and then also Daniel Ricciardo and Renault are very close.
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