Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner has hailed168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen’s pole position at the Japanese Grand ☂Prix as his best ever lap.

Verstappen showed exactly why he is a four-time world champion by producing a stunning lap to claim a shock first pole of the 2025 seaso🅰n at Suzuka.

The Dutchman pipped McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris b🐷y 0.012s to take what is his fourth consecutive pole in Japan.

"Unbelievable! We did not expect that,” H🌠orner told Sky Sports F1.

“Just an outstanding lap. He’s extracted every ounce of performance. He and his eng🌳ineering team were working on the preparation and getting the tyres in the right window.

“He’s got the most out of it today and getting that pole positioﷺn was completely against the run of form that we’ve been seeing. A massive result for him♓ and a big lift for the team.”

Horner revealed Red Bull made significant changes to their difficult RB21 to try and get it into a better working window for Verstappe🤡n.

“We have turned the car upside down this weekend. In s🎐et-up we’ve bee🧸n round the houses with it and Max and his team have done a great job,” he explained.

“Just getting the car into the right window and g༒etting the tyres in the right place, just putting everything together.

“The McLarens, if they’d put th🎶eir laps together on the theoretical, they are half a tenth quicker, but they didn’t get that in today.

“He left nothing on the table. That was one of his best laps in qualifyꦍing ever.”

Red Bull encouraged by Yuki Tsunoda

Verstappen’s new teammate Yuki Tsunoda could only manage 15th plꦿace🅠 on his qualifying debut for Red Bull.

The Japanese driver was half a second slower than Verstappen when he wa🦩s eliminated in the second part of qualifying.

Tsunoda was also outpaced by Liam Lawson, who has returned 🍌to Racing Bulls following his brutal demotion from the main Red Bull team.

Horner explained that opting to go for a diffꦿerent downforce level to Verstappen hurt Tsunoda🐭 but was nevertheless encouraged by his early showing.

“It’s all subjective to the data. This morning they both 🦩ran a bit more downforce and Yuki found it was more to his liking,” he said.

"Certainly in Q1 he looked competitive, he was within a tenthܫ of Ma💛x and just once place behind.

"He didn't improve in Q2 and that last run, he was a bit quick into Turn One and ha♏d a big moment into Turn Two, and you are never going to recover from there.

"I think he could comfortably have m🃏ade the top 10 today but he can still race well tomorrow.”