Max Verstappen did not feel he had “missed out” on pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix – despite being pipped by a tiny margin. The Dutchman was only 0.036sec slower than Sir Lewis Hamilton in Q3 as the 2021 battle between Mercedes and Red Bull proved as tight as ever at the Circuit de Cataluyna-Barcelona. But although Verstappen had got agonisingly close to denying Hamilton his 100th pole position in Formula 1, he was full of positives about his performance having felt he had extracted the maximum potential from his car. “The laps were actually very good,” Verstappen told Sky F1, referring to Q3. “I was very happy with the lap time I did. “Of course it was so close,...
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