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Verstappen admits pole out of reach even before Q3 spin

Max Verstappen pushed Lewis Hamilton all the way in rain-hit qualifying for the Styrian Grand Prix on Saturday, but ultimately he didn't have the speed to knock the Mercedes driver off pole. Hamilton led Verstappen by a narrow margin in Q1 and Q2, but ended up over a second faster than the Red Bull in the final round - which saw Verstappen spin off at the final corner on his last all-out push in the pole shoot-out. “Overall it was a good qualifying but in Q3 it was raining a lot more," he explained to Paul di Resta in parc ferme after the end of the session. “It seemed like we were struggling a bit more in like the really wet conditions," he continued. "I wasn’t as...
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