168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen delivered a memorable 🍸sound bite ove♔r team radio after securing pole position for the sprint race in Miami.

Heading into SQ3, McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris looked to be the favourite to take pole for the Saturday𓄧 sprint.

However, as ♓Norris’ charge faltered, it was Verstappen who delivered when it ▨mattered, despite putting together a scrappy lap.

Verstappen ultimately claimed pole for the sprint by just over a tenth ahead of Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.

The Dutchman was💞 clearly surprised when he was told by race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase that he claimed pole.

Verstappen said: "LOL. What happened to the 🌠others? This was te♔rrible.

"I mean I will take it!"

Explaining further why he was surprised to take top spot, Verstappen conceded that the performan🥂ce of his Red Bull “didn’t 🌠feel great”

"It felt really terrible. Maybe that last⭕ session was just incredibly difficult to get the tyres to work,” he said.

🐼"Already in SQ2 I didn't feel great. SQ3, it just felt quite similar for me.

"I didn't really improve on the🐼 soft. Somehow we were fi🌠rst. Of course, I happily take it.

"But it didn't feel enjoyable out there to drive for whatever reason because in practice it felt really, really nice, I was very comfortable and confide𓂃nt, qualifying, not so much.

"It might be the track layout a little bit. I thought after practice, I was quite confident we could fight for pole, then in qua♚lifying it didn't really look like that for me.

"But somehow we ended up in first. I don't know what happened to the other cars on that la𓄧st lap."

Verstappen hasn't been beaten in a sprint race since the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, when he finished behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri.

Since the introduction of the sprint format in 2021, Verstappen has won eight times - six more than the next driver (168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas: 2).