Red Bull’s championship leader Max Verstappen flew to pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz joining him on the front row after a dramatic qualifying.
Verstappen was nearly half a second clear of the Spaniard and so good was his first lap in the final phase that he aborted the second once it became clear nobody else was going to beat him.
“The car was on rails,” said the happy Dutch driver, who took his first Formula One win at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya in 2016 and also triumphed last year.
“It was really enjoyable to drive today.”…