In Melbourne Verstappen took over provisional pole from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with his second run in Q3, but with his final effort Leclerc struck back to take his second pole of the 2022 season by 0.286s.
Despite qualifying on the front row Verstappen admitted he hadn’t felt comfortable in the Red Bull RB18 all weekend on a single lap, saying he was “all over the place”.
“I didn’t really feel good in the whole weekend so far,” Verstappen said straight after the qualifying session, which was red flagged for an incident between Lance Stroll and Nicholas Latifi and for a crash by Fernando Alonso.
“I think there’s not been one lap where I actually felt confident, so a bit of a struggle. Of course, second is still a good result but just not feeling that great to go to the limit. We will try to analyse it.”
“Probably in race pace everything stabilises a bit, but for me this weekend so far it has been all over the place.
“Of course, happy to be second, but I think also as a team we…
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