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- Leclerc on pole with Verstappen second and Hamilton fifth
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It’s become fashionable to speak about things in superlatives and absolutes – things can’t just be good or bad, they have to be the best or the worst, putative facts announced in purple prose of the sort you’ve just read. But we can all agree that, without doubt, F1 is the weirdest sport in the world, as illustrated by the end of last season and the beginning of this.
Consequently, it’s not at all easy to get a read on what we’re about to see. The best driver might win, the best car might win, or someone at the back might crash, leading to a concertinaed field and a last-lap free-for-all because our tiny minds can only cope with things that are neatly packaged. Sorry, the most neatly packaged things of all-time, in the world … ever!
