Verstappen on Pole for Spanish Grand Prix

Verstappen on Pole for Spanish Grand Prix
Red Bull's Max Verstappen celebrates after qualifying in pole position at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona on June 3, 2023. Nacho Doce/Reuters
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Red Bull’s championship leader Max Verstappen flew to pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz joining him on the front row after a dramatic qualifying.

Verstappen was nearly half a second clear of the Spaniard and so good was his first lap in the final phase that he aborted the second once it became clear nobody else was going to beat him.