F1, Max Verstappen awarded by Gigi Buffon: “A great day”

Verstappen awarded by Buffon: "A great day"

Max Verstappen stamps yet another pole position in Jeddah: the Red Bull driver seems immune to the rumors surrounding his team and will start ahead of everyone Saturday in the race. "Today è was a great day. We managed to improve the car in the night and that gave me confidence to attack the high-speed corners. 

The Dutch driver after official qualifying è was honored by former Azzurri goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who presented him with the wheel of the 34th career pole: "Here having confidence makes all the difference to push you to the limit. I felt comfortable in the car and è really crazy when you go fast here in qualifying". 

"I am very happy with my first lap in Q3,” explained the three-time world champion. The second one didn’t satisfy me in the same way, but we had fun anyway and è pole came. The car è behaved very well".

A brief prediction about Saturday’s race: "There have been crazy races here in the past. The track è difficult, there are many straights and possibilities” of overtaking”.