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Verstappen stops McLaren run to take shock Suzuka pole
Max Verstappen stunned McLaren by snatching pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix with a new track record at the Suzuka Circuit. Verstappen had been more than 0.2s down on Oscar Piastri’s provisional pole time after the first runs of Q3 but strung together an inch-perfect final lap to rocket to top spot. “That is insane,” his engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, told him, to guttural screams of excitement from the cockpit. His final lap of 1m 26.983s set the record for Suzuka, breaking Sebastian Vettel’s previous benchmark from 2019 by 0.081 seconds. The Dutchman hadn’t expected to contend for pole and said he needed to put it all on the line to seal the deal. “The last lap was...
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