Verstappen: "Not a big deal" to have youngest pole position record

With time running out to break another record, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has claimed that it's "not a big deal" to him to potentially break the record of being the youngest-ever driver to be on pole position in F1.

The current holder of the record is none other than Sebastian Vettel, who famously claimed pole position for Toro Rosso at Monza in 2008 when he was just 21 years and 72 days old.

Verstappen, who turned 21 in September, will have one last chance to break the record next week in Abu Dhabi, as he'll be older than Vettel was in 2008 by the time the 2019-season starts.

Much to the Dutchman's annoyance, he missed out on pole position in Mexico by 0.026 seconds to his teammate Daniel Ricciardo. Verstappen did go on to win that race.

 “For me I was not really after the youngest pole record,” the Dutchman was quoted by Crash.net.

“I mean I don’t think Lewis cares that he’s not the youngest pole sitter with five titles. It’s not a big deal but just fighting for pole, that was the target.

“I’ve never really had a great opportunity compared to other qualifying sessions where I felt like it was great, it was a good feeling, and you’re only like P3 or even P5 sometimes.

“It felt like it was a good session and this felt horrible. It’s still second by such a small margin.”

Verstappen was visibly annoyed by missing out on that pole position in Mexico to Ricciardo, but it wasn't because of the record, he explained.

“I was mainly very angry because of the problems I’ve had with my engine during qualifying, that weekend I was clearly the fastest but just for 75 seconds I wasn’t.

“So yeah I was literally pissed off. Then of course every little thing which comes with it makes me even more angrier, I could literally- I prefer not to say.

“I could literally do some damage if somebody would say something wrong to me after qualifying. That angry I was. So yeah, every little thing makes me more angry.”

Despite potentially missing out on the pole position-record, Verstappen is still the record-holder for being the youngest driver ever in F1, the youngest driver ever to score points, and the youngest driver ever to win a race. Not bad.