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Informed that Lance Stroll maintained his pole position after an investigation by stewards, Max Verstappen says “it is what it is” should have qualified better.
Verstappen will start Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix second on the grid despite dominating the weekend sessions.
Faster in all three practices and two seconds up in Q1 and again in Q2, he lost pole position to Stroll in a shocking final qualifying segment.
The Racing Point driver made an impressive final lap on the intermediate tires, setting a 1: 47.765 to beat Verstappen by 0.290s.
However, shortly thereafter, the stewards announced that they were analyzing Stroll’s final lap to see if he had slowed down enough for Sergio Pérez’s yellow flags at Turn 7.
They declared yes, and Stroll held onto its inaugural pole position.
Informed of the decision, Verstappen told De Telegraaf: “It is what it is.
“If we wanted to be on pole, we should have qualified better.”
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The dejected Verstappen was seen being consoled by a team member before addressing the post-race press conference where he admitted he was “upset” by his result.
“I think it’s the first time I’ve felt upset here this year,” he said. “So, I think that says it all.
“Everything was going pretty good on the wet tires, but already in Q1, when I tried to do the interests, it just wasn’t working at all, even compared to other people in the interests around me.
“So in Q3 I wasn’t really sure about going to interest because I was very comfortable on the extreme tires, so once we boxed and got out, I had no grip at all compared to the laps I was doing before.
“It is very disappointing to be second.”
When asked if he could turn that P2 into a P1 on Sunday, especially as Mercedes teammates are starting sixth and ninth with Lewis Hamilton ahead of Valtteri Bottas, the Dutchman felt he was starting on the wrong side of the grid to improve. . Get away.
“I don’t know. We’ll find out tomorrow, to be honest,” he said.
“I think Lewis and Valtteri are a bit lower, but I’m starting on the inside now too, so it’s not very pretty. But we’ll find out tomorrow. “
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