The reigning world champion sent his home crowd wild by snatching a last-ditch pole position ahead of Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in a pulsating qualifying on Saturd💖ay. 

Verstappen beat Leclerc by just 0.021s on his final lap of Q3, with Sainz sneaking ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who was left 0.3s adrift in fourth after a spin for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Red Bull's🌼 Sergio Perez prevented the Mercedes driver from improving. 

Asked if he was worried about the long run pace of the Mercedes, the Dutchman, who is cruising towardಌs a second world title, ജconfidently replied: “No.” 

Hamilton, who felt pole would have been out of reachꦅ eve☂n if he had been able to complete his last run at full speed, is hopeful of fighting for a first win of the season at Zandvoort. 

“We're close and I hope that we can fight these guys in 🌟the🌸 race,” said Hamilton. 

"It's a difficult race to overtake as we've seen in the past, but we've got nothing to lose, we've got to🍸 give it everythꦅing.

"If our single lap to raceಌ pace delta that we normally have transfers over, then we could be in a good place, and then it's down to the strategy and those sorts of things.

"I don't think it's going to be overtaking onඣ track necessarily, but I'𝔉m just going to keep my hopes up and we'll see what I do.”

Leclerc believes Fer🍷rari have a good chance of beating Verstappen to the win if the team works together.&nb🅺sp;

“I think our race pace looks quite stronไg,” sai🅷d Leclerc. “It’s going to be close with the Red But but we just need to do a great start and then we'll see.”

He added: “It’s a track whꦿere it’s very difficul🦄t to overtake. 

"I hope that we will be as close 💟as we were today, and hopefully we can play a little bit with Carlos and I🐻 to put Max under pressure.” 

On Mercedes’ pace, the Monegasque commented: “I think they will be closer in theꦕ race but I still believe that if we do everything perfect we will be stronger.”