00:01Pérez is in trouble here as Esteban Ocon next across the line goes 6th fastest.
00:06Nicolas Latifi goes 5th fastest. Now Lando Norris needs to get out of that bottom 5 and he does,
00:12but only just for Lando Norris and Sergio Pérez is out of qualifying.
00:18Sebastian Vettel was trying to weave his way through and that is two Hasses that have got in his way.
00:24That was close, that was terrible.
00:27That's a penalty coming Mazepin's way of no consolation to Sebastian Vettel who's down there
00:32in the bottom 5 out of qualifying on a fast lap whilst others were trying to build a gap.
00:38We're out, chocolate.
00:40Can't believe it. They were so slow with these guys on the pit lane.
00:44A disappointing start to the weekend for him after a pretty, pretty tough weekend in Spa.
00:49Nikita Mazepin is out of qualifying, that incident involving him and Sebastian Vettel is going to be
00:55investigated after the session. Schumacher's out as well.
00:59Head down. Oh, I was going to say he's very aggressive on the way in and he was.
01:05Too aggressive on the way in and all the anticipation that was building in that Williams garage.
01:12George Russell is out of qualifying.
01:16If you're not pushing, you're not trying and he was definitely trying and he was definitely pushing.
01:19He's on the limit. It's going to happen at some point. Do you know what I mean?
01:23You can't have a perfect qualifying session every race.
01:28Oh, that's another Williams and that is a bigger impact.
01:33And that's Nicholas Satifri very much out of qualifying and that is another red flag.
01:38Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay?
01:41Yeah, I'm fine.
01:43He's out of qualifying as is Yuki Tsunoda, Lando Norris, Lance Stroll and George Russell because the
01:51session will not be resumed. We've seen with Max when the car's a little bit twitchy, he is super fast
01:58and I think we're going to see that right now. No Dutch driver has ever started higher than 14th for
02:03a
02:03Dutch Grand Prix. Max Verstappen in the one minute eight seconds and that has delighted the Dutch
02:10crowd here. He was a couple of tenths up on both Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton through the first
02:16sector. He was two tenths up on Valtteri Bottas through the middle sector. He was a tenth up on this
02:21man Lewis Hamilton through the middle sector pushing Max Verstappen and maybe pushing Mercedes to
02:27places they just can't go here because Valtteri Bottas finishes three tenths behind Verstappen as we
02:32watch Hamilton coming off the banking at the final corner. Is he the man that can deny Verstappen
02:37pole? Not on this evidence. He's three and a bit tenths off Verstappen and he's behind his teammate
02:42Valtteri Bottas. Verstappen starts his final flying lap. Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton, Daniel Ricciardo
02:49are the three that haven't started their flying lap as yet. Hamilton might get caught by Leclerc going
02:55through the final corner as Verstappen continues on his way and takes that high line around the banking
03:00at turn three. A slingshot on the exit and out towards turn four in the nice fast-flowing
03:06S's section as we can watch Lewis Hamilton going around the banking. Leclerc finishes his lap, goes
03:11forth fastest. Hamilton gets to the line with about eight seconds to spare, so it's going to be right
03:16down to the last gasps for Verstappen to see if he's got pole here and he's going to have to
03:21be waiting a
03:22long time for the Mercedes to cross the line. Check your flag is out as Pierre Gasly goes fourth fastest,
03:28retakes that position on the second row. That is a super performance from him. Ferrari fifth and sixth,
03:33Esteban Ocon goes seventh fastest. Verstappen's going quicker through that middle sector.
03:38Roar of approval from the fans as they see that one and they rise to acclaim Max Verstappen here as
03:43Giovinazzi goes seventh fastest and that's a super qualified performance from him. Valtteri Bottas and
03:48Lewis Hamilton seem to be the only two that can deny Max Verstappen who might yet go quicker than his
03:53provisional pole time. Guess what he does? Verstappen's on pole here in Zandvoort. There's the Mercedes of
04:00Bottas and Hamilton who can try and deny him his first pole position in his home Grand Prix. Now on
04:07the banking
04:07we go with Valtteri Bottas who knows what it's like in the junior formula to have success here but at
04:13the
04:13moment Bottas can only make second place on the grid. Can Hamilton deny Max Verstappen? The two
04:20championship protagonists battling it and qualifying. Hamilton is alongside Max Verstappen on the front row
04:27for what will be the sixth time in 2021 but the celebrations here in Zandvoort for the home favorite
04:34Max Verstappen. Max Verstappen no one could deny him pole and by three one hundredths of a second he takes
04:40it over Hamilton.
04:44That is pole position mate. Pole position home Grand Prix. Really proud of you. Nice job.
04:52Yes guys unbelievable. What a great car today. It was unbelievable. We're just flying. Thank you so much.
05:02Sixth pole in the last seven races. Ford Max Verstappen sharing the front row with Hamilton for the sixth
05:09time in 2021. Wow. We've seen them battling in lap one. We've seen them coming together in lap one. We
05:19don't know how this race is going to pan out. The teams don't know because we haven't been to Zandvoort
05:23for
05:2336 years. What we do know is the two fastest drivers on the grid and the two best drivers on
05:30the grid are
05:31going to be starting alongside each other.
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