Max Verstappen was on top in the US Grand Prix Sprint Shootout, but it was a very closely-fought session at COTA.
Max Verstappen will start on pole for the US Grand Prix Sprint Shootout, after missing out on Friday.
Qatar Sprint winner Oscar Piastri rounded out the top five on the grid at the Circuit of The Americas, in a tightly-fought shortened qualifying session between multiple teams.After ‘standard’ qualifying on Friday saw Charles Leclerc take pole position, the shortened version was set to be altogether different, with the track conditions somewhat cooler than Friday’s running and mandatory medium tyres to be used in SQ1 and SQ2, leaving extra variables for the drivers during the Sprint Shootout.
When those laps played out, the Williams of Alex Albon went third fastest in a superb lap while bot McLarens struggled to fire up their medium tyres, Oscar Piastri scraping through in 14th and Daniel Ricciardo putting himself though in 15th, narrowly above the Haas duo of Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen.
Leclerc seemingly thinks a slam-dunk punishment is on the way for the Briton, chiming in over his radio by saying: “And a penalty for Mr Russell, thank you.” Verstappen will have been grateful for banking a lap early on, as he completed a full 360° spin on the uphill exit of Turn 9, with mud on his tyres and his final lap ruined – though he had a good enough time to see him through.
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