- Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez joins Leclerc on front row of the grid
- Verstappen berates team for ‘shit execution’ in qualifying
There can be no argument over who will be the fastest man on track for Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix. After Max Verstappen delivered a crushingly quick lap at Spa-Francorchamps in qualifying he appears unstoppable and he knows it, for all that he will not begin the race from pole because of a five-place grid penalty.
Starting in sixth will barely be an inconvenience, a gnat pestering a giant for Verstappen who set the quickest lap in Belgium by almost a full second. His dominance was such in the end that an earlier angry exchange with his race engineer appeared to be a rank overreaction from the Dutchman.
