Grand Prix in Miami

Miami GP: Qualifying from 10pm LIVE

Max Verstappen

(Bild: AP)

What a Saturday for Max Verstappen: The world champion from the Netherlands not only won the sprint race around the Miami Dolphins stadium, but also secured pole position in the evening for Sunday's race (10pm), keeping his clean sheet this season! 

Verstappen, who will start from the front ahead of the Ferrari duo Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, has won all six qualifying sessions this year.

The last time Frenchman Alain Prost was on pole position six times at the start of a season was in 1993 in the then all-dominant Williams - since then, no other driver has managed this until this year.

"It wasn't the best lap of my career!"
"Let's keep it up!" said the 26-year-old after his 38th career pole position. "I think we've improved the car a bit, but every year when I come here I find it difficult to be consistent. Today was about finding that balance and I think we did that well. It wasn't the best lap of my career, simply because it was so slippery."

Here is the FINAL STATE:

Verstappen goes for the Miami hat-trick on Sunday, having won the races the past two years.

Here's the standings in the drivers' championship:

"It felt so much on the limit, it was very close until Q3. When we started to push for the last one or two tenths, we started to lose it," said Leclerc. "But the race is long and I hope we can put Max under a bit more pressure tomorrow."

Behind the Ferrari tandem on the grid is Perez, followed by the McLaren-Mercedes of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Fernando Alonso only managed 15th place.