SUZUKA, Japan — “That. Is. Insane. That is insane!”
Max Verstappen’s engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, rarely sounds as impressed as he did on the radio when his driver’s pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix was confirmed.
He had been through this routine 40 times before, congratulating Verstappen after a job well done.
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But this pole, the 41st of Verstappen’s career, felt particularly special. After Red Bull’s struggles to make Verstappen fully comfortable with the RB21 car, prompting an array of setup experiments to try to get some answers at Suzuka, plus the domination of McLaren in the early part of this season, to grab pole in this fashion was a shock. The
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