The Red Bull driver, who has stated his dislike of the sprint weekend format on several occasions, cruised to an easy victory ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes in a uneventful race at the United States Grand Pr𒁏ix on Saturday. 

Other than having to robustly defend the lead from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s fast-starting Ferrari on the run to Turn 1, Verstappen was unchallenged as he built up a comfortable 9༺.4-second lead꧒ over Hamilton in 19 laps. 

Asked if he has found any enjoy▨ment from the sprint races this year, Verstappen sarcastically replied: “Love it. I♏t’s fantastic.

“If you want my honest opinion about the sprint weekends, I don't really get excited♍꧟ by it. 

“I just feel like once 𓆏you complete qualifying, you're a bit lost. I feel like we only need one qualifying in the weekend where you really put everything on the line and it feels great. 

“This m๊orning as well, like you put it on P1, but I'm like… sighs… It’s a Saturday and there’s not many points anyway for the race.

“And besides that, like now we've done this race everyone ⭕more or less kn𒆙ows what's going to happen tomorrow between all the cars in terms of pace.

“So takes a little bit the excitement away from it. If we wouldn't have done today, and we only had that qualifying yesterday, you don't really know wh🍌at's going to happen before the race.&n♋bsp;

“So every𓄧one gets very excited,🅺 turning on the TV, because you don't know. And also we didn't know. Now we know, a little bit.”

Hamilton jokingly interjected: “𓃲It sounds like you are a bit bored.”

To which, Verstappen responded: “I’m not bored but if I would be a fan I would just be disappointed because then you know you're more or less kno😼w the picture and nothing crazy happens. You know what's going to🦹 happen tomorrow. 

“So I find that takes away that magic of waking up on the Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon and you turn on the TV, and you had qualifying, but you're not sur𝔉e which car is going to be quickest, in most of the years, and it takes that magic away I find.” 

Hamilton, who finished n🥀ea🐽rly nine seconds clear of Leclerc in a distant second, offered a different perspective to Verstappen.

“For us, it's fun. For 🐽me, it's fun,” he said. "I like having the extra opportunity to get out there and try to squeeze every little bit and more ou𓄧t of the package that we have. Can it be better? Sure.

“I think it’s been exciting for people so I personally quite like the sprint weekends.𒅌 Particularly the Friday I really like, w♑here you only have one practice session and then you are straight into quali.” 

Le🐻clerc echoed Hamilton’s view but feels there is room for improvement. 

“I think there are some t🅠hings that are nice, others that are a bit 🌜less nice,” he explained. 

“What I enjoy are the Fridays with one free practice and then you go straight into qualifying, this is somethi🌃ng that as a driver I like, because FP1 then becomes a real session. 

“In a normal weekend FP1, FP2, FP3, it’s really plenty of lap♛s before you get to qualifying, which is maybe a bit too many. But then there are maybe other things that we need to look into. 

"I think in Qatar it was very exciting because we had two compounds that were very different. One that was very good in the first six or seven laps and then had a lot of degradation, and the other that was really goo﷽d towards the end of the race. That makes the sprint race really exciting. 

“Otherwise we’ve got races like today where everybody, apart from Carlos unfortunately, uses the medium and then it is a bit of♊ a drain.”