Max Verstappen has snatched another Sprint Qualifying pole position, as the Red Bull man toppled the McLaren drivers to set up an exciting front-row in Austin.

The championship dark horse has applied further pressure to the McLaren drivers as he put in an imperious lap in the third part of Sprint Qualifying to take top spot away from McLaren’s Lando Norris.

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The eight-minute session mandated the use of the soft tyre, meaning that the drivers would likely only have a single-lap effort to put in their best times due to the tyre life available to them.

Mercedes’ George Russell, and the Williams duo of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon were the first out on track, trying to make use of the vacant track in the early minutes of the qualifying segment.

Russell logged a 1:32.888, 0.023 clear of

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