Max Verstappen will start on pole for Sunday’s F1 Canadian GP after a wet qualifying session that had Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc make early exits and Nico Hulkenberg lose second place after a post-session grid penalty.
Verstappen won the Monaco Grand Prix from the pole without facing a battle for the lead, but his fourth win of the season was anything but an easy cruise.
Max Verstappen has never held the pole in Monaco, and for much of the session it looked like that streak would continue.
It would be easy to say simply that Max Verstappen won the F1 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne Sunday
It wasn’t surprising that Red Bull’s Max Verstappen grabbed the pole Saturday for the F1 Australian Grand Prix.
What a difference a year makes.
Defying all the pundits who tapped others, at the end of the day in Bahrain Saturday it was yet another Red Bull lockout of the front row mirroring the final race of 2022.
Sebastian Vettel bid a fond auf wiedersehen to fulltime F1 racing Sunday after a week spent celebrating his 15 years in the sport.