Verstappen: "Otherwise we would have been a little closer"

Max Verstappen was a few tenths short of the Mercedes duo during the final phase of qualifying around the Mugello circuit. According to the Dutchman, it could have been a bit better.

“Somehow my first run in Q3 was not quite perfect. I was too far from the cars in front of me so I didn't really have a slipstream. As a result, there was not much left in it," a realistic Verstappen tells Ziggo Sport. "It was a pity that this first lap did not come to the fore because the conditions deteriorated afterwards."