The reigning world champion sent his home crowd wild by snatching a last-ditch pole position ahead of Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos𝔍 Sainz in a pulsating qualifying on Saturday.&ဣnbsp;

Verstappen beat Leclerc by just 0.021s on his final lap of Q3, with Sainz sneaking ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who was left 0.3s adrift in fourth after a spin for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Red Bull's Sergio Perez prevented the Mercedes dri▨ver from improving. 

Asked if he was worried about the long run pace of the Mercedes, the Dutchman, who is cruising towards a second world tit🀅le, confidently replied: “No.” 

Hamilton, who felt pole would have been out oꦺf reach even if he hadཧ been able to complete his last run at full speed, is hopeful of fighting for a first win of the season at Zandvoort. 

ꦫ“We're close and I hope t𒀰hat we can fight these guys in the race,” said Hamilton. 

"It's a difficult rac🍸e to overtake as we've seen in the past, but we've got nothing to lose, we've got to give it everything.

"If our single lap to race pace delta that we normally have transfers over, then we could be in a good place, and then it's down to the strategy and those so🙈rts of things.

"I don't think it's going to be overtaking on track necessarily, but I'm just going to kee🐠p my🍸 hopes up and we'll see what I do.”

Leclerc believes Ferrari have a good chance of beating Verstappen to thꦺe win if the team works together. 

“I think our♍ race pace looks quite strong,” said Leclerc. “It’s going to be close with the Red But but we just need to do a great start and then we'll see.”

He added: “It’s a track where it’s very difficult to overtake.ꦑ 

"I hope that we will be as close as we were today, and hopef▨ully we can play a little bit with Carlos and I to pu♌t Max under pressure.” 

On Mercedes’ pace, the Monegasque commented: “I think they will be closer in the race but I still believe that if we do everything perfect we will be stro♛nger.”