Verstappen stormed to his 10th pole position of the season ahead of F1 title rival Lewis Hamilton⛄.

Hamil✤ton was the heavy favourite for pole going into qualifying after topping two of three preceding practice sessions, but Verst﷽appen’s 1m22.109s in Q3 proved to be untouchable.

On the run down to Turn 9, Verstappen be🎃nefitted from a tow from his ไteammate.

Speaking after qualifying, Verstappen revealed that it was discussed beforehand but the time gained fr♍om it didn’t explain the nearly four-tenth gap to Hamilton.

“Yeah it w🐻as discussed before quali,” he said. “It was very nicely executed as well. It’s not whatever the gap was, I might have gained a tenth towards Turn 9, it’s not a massively long straight. 

“Nevertheless, Checo is a great teammate and a real pleasure to work with so also aꩵ big thank you to him.”

Verstappenꦇ confirmed that they didn’t practice the tow in practice.

“No we didn’t,” he added. “Checo and I said to ourselves we we🌸re confident to do it just for that one run and t💯hat’s what we did.”

To secur🦄e his maiden F1 championship, Verstappen sim🧸ply needs to finish ahead of Hamilton. 

Even though it’s the biggest day of his career on Sunday, Verstappen says h🎃e’s going to be preparing as normal.

“I just need to focus♚ on what we can control as a team and the coming hours, what I think is most important is to have a good sleep but also I have friends and family around so I am not going to do anything different to what I normally have been doing,” he explained.