The two-time world champion posted two laps good𓆏 enough for pole in Q3 on his way to topping qualifying for the seventh time this season, 0.228s clear of Perez, who secured a Red Bull♏ front-row lockout. 

Verstappen will be eyeing his 15th victory of an alreadyꩵ record-breaking 2022 campaign in Sunday’s grand prix. 

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"It was a bit of an up and down qualifyi𒆙ng. It started off quite well," said Verstappen. "Q2 was a little bit messy. I don’t know why but on those tyres I couldn’t get the grip together. 

"But then in Q3 it all felt a bit more normal. We had a bit of a scare, the car turned off before the first run, so we had to reboot everything. Theꦇn we went out and both of the laps were good enough."  

Perez’s late improvement saw him leapfrog 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, who outpaced Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz by two tenths. 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton was over six tenths adrift of Verstappen’s pole effort as he took fifth with a lap just 0.003s faster than Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell. 

McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris took seventh ahead of Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon and Aston Martin’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Sebastian Vettel, who was n𒁏inth in his final qualifying of his F1 career. 

Outgoing McLaren driver168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Daniel Ricciardo completed the top-10, 1.2s off the pace. 

Fernando Alonso narrowly missed out on a spot in Q3 as he took𒈔 11th for Alpine, ahead of AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda. 

Mick Schumacher was 13th-fastest in his final qualifying session for Haas, a tenth clear of Aston Martin’s Lan⭕ce Strolꩲl and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu. 

Kevin Magnussen failed to follow his Haas teammate into Q2 and was dumped out in 16th, ahead of AlphaTaur🌺i’s Pierre Gasly. 

Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas could only qualify 18th, ahead of the Williams pair of Alex Albon and Nicholas Latifi, who was slowest of all in qual🌃ifying for ⛄the 10th time this season.