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Understeer cost Verstappen a shot at pole

Max Verstappen says that, in the cold conditions, a 'bit too much' understeer in Q3 cost him a chance of getting pole position. Mercedes has started at the front of each race this season, but it looked like there was a chance of that changing at the Nurburgring as Verstappen topped Q1 and went less than a tenth slower than Lewis Hamilton in Q2. After the first round of laps in the final shoot-out, he was occupying P1 and looking good. As the track evolved, he, Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas were all improving in the early stages of their final runs, but the Dutchman dropped off towards the end. Therefore, he'll start the race in P3, behind the Finn and the Brit respectively, and he thinks...
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