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Verstappen a Merc threat after 'unexpected' split
Max Verstappen will start on the front row for the first time since the F1 season-openers in Sunday's Russian GP after nailing one of his "best laps ever" to beat Valtteri Bottas and split heavy favourites Mercedes. The Red Bull star expected to be fighting in the midfield rather than the Mercedes this weekend, but while Lewis Hamilton took pole in a dramatic session by more than half a second, Verstappen out-paced Bottas by a tenth with a superb final lap in Q3 to secure second place. Verstappen's only other front-row starts this season came in the Austria back-to-back in July - one after being bumped up the grid thanks to a post-qualy penalty for Hamilton and the other following...
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