Verstappen has been comfortably leading the entire SpanishGP weekend, but his aborted lap in Q3 suggested the F1 world champion could have been even more dominant.
But unlike numerous past cases of a Red Bull driver running early in Q3 to then jump out of the car and wait for events to unfold, safe in the knowledge their pole was secure, Verstappen insisted he head out for one last lap.
At the end of the first sector, marked by the entry into the Turn 4 left-hander, Verstappen had in fact ceded 0.025s to his previous personal best. But then he turned up the wick through the sector part of the lap. He flashed purple by the point he hit the brakes into Turn 10. A run time of 28.903s was not only 0.251s quicker than what any other driver managed through the second sector, but also 0.161s up on his own pole effort.
"Then no one turned out to go any faster. By Turn 10, I was already almost two tenths under my own time, so it still would have been a nice lap. But in the end, it wasn't necessary."
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