Max Verstappen’s F1 race engineer dared him to do 1m28 pole lap as radio message explained
The Red Bull driver crushed his rivals with a devastating performance 🥂in qualifying as he claimed a dominant pole position at Suzuka.
Having already set a lap time good enough for pole, Verstappen went even quicker on his final run of Q3, posting a 1m28.877s which put him a massive 0.581s clear of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri’s McLaren.
“There you go, 28,” the reigning worl🉐d champion told Lambiase over team radio during his cool down lap back to the pits.
Asked about the radio exchange in the post-qualifying press conference, Verstappen confirmed he had been egged on by his race🧜 engineer.
“Yeah, he told me like 1:28 would be nice,” Verstapp♛en sai෴d.
“I said ‘Don’t worry, I’m gonna send it’ and then he was like, ‘Yeah, but like don’t shunt the car, rig๊ht?’
“I was like, ‘Yeah, 🍸obviously, that’s not what I want to do’.”
Verstappen added: “I knew that there was still a little bit left in a few placꦦes.
“That’s what I tried to tidy up, which worked ou🥂t quiꦗte well.”
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said Lambiase was “winding” Verstappen up ahead o꧋f his final qualifying lap.
“GP [Lambiase] started winding him༒ up for the last run, to say ‘Let’s see a 28 today’,” Horner told Sky.
“I said to GP ‘Look, I’d like🏅 to see f꧙our wheels on the car at the end of it!’
“That first run looked good enough to ♕get the job done, but then he just went quicker ag⛎ain.
“All his laps have been stunning today. He’s done three laps on new ty♊res, and the lap on scrubbed tyres in Q2 to go second fastest… it has been an absolutely mind-blowing performance.”
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