New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI need a good start and then to try and have good pace — and degradation is going to be very big here so we have to try our best to maximise our performance,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have Max next to me at the start and it\u2019s important I am in front on the first lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is going to be fun tomorrow!\u201d Red Bull\u2019s four-time champion Verstappen admitted his success was down to being given a \u2018tow\u2019 by teammate Isack Hadjar who has a grid penalty and starts from the back of the grid on Sunday. <\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be here without him,\u201d the Dutchman said. \u201cI\u2019d be like P6 or something.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be looking in my mirrors for the people around me tomorrow! <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a really good result today. The car has been decent all weekend, if not on the level of Kimi, but I\u2019m happy with the front row. <\/p>\n
Gasly suffers wild crash in Belgium | 00:27<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always tough around here with the tyres in the long run, but I will just do my best and see if we can hang in there — or not!\u201d<\/p>\n
World champion Lando Norris of McLaren, who faces a 10-place grid penalty, was third in qualifying. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be standing here, but it\u2019s not nice knowing I have to go 10 places back tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is unfortunate that it is not where we will be starting tomorrow because it would be nice to have a little fight with these guys but we made the most of it. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very good qualifying and a very good lap for me. Honestly, I\u2019ve been pretty happy all weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of a home race for me so that\u2019s a little boost here.\u201d <\/p>\n
Antonelli fastest at Belgian practice GP | 01:01<\/p>\n
Like Dutchman Verstappen, who was born in Belgium, Norris has a Belgian mother. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe car is performing well,\u201d he added. \u201cI think we will see there are plenty of opportunities and hopefully we can put on a bit of a show for everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n
George Russell was fourth in the second Mercedes ahead of Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who crashed earlier in the day. Oscar Piastri was seventh in the second McLaren. <\/p>\n
Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad was eighth ahead of Audi\u2019s Gabriel Bortoleto and Hadjar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli aims to start fast and have fun on Sunday as he bids to convert his sixth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-809383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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