00:00and circuit it's used the rest of Max Verstappen into the gravel and into the barriers and that
00:07is Max Verstappen having a horrendous start to his qualifying in 2026 this is his first flying
00:15lap and the man who was knocked out in Q1 on pure pace for the first time in his F1
00:20career
00:21in Sao Paulo last season is out of qualifying here after an escapade into the gravel and we've
00:28got a red flag now that'll help Mercedes won't it and Kimi Antonelli maybe get a shot lap has Max
00:35kept
00:36it going can he get it going if not and can he find enough purchase to reverse that out of
00:42the
00:43gravel trap if he can no he's out of the car he'll lose it where did it go wrong for
00:49Max Verstappen
00:50powering his way down the straight super clipping should now kick in did he touch the white line
00:57with his rear tire I don't know if not basically as he's hit the brakes the uh the electric with
01:04the kinetic motor is like pulling the handbrake on
01:08no it's well away from the white line yeah that's not a driver error I could say how often do
01:14you see
01:14Max Verstappen just making fundamental errors he's he's hit the brakes and it's just locked the rear
01:21axle just like Lance Stroll in testing yeah you can't pull handbrakes on anymore in modern cars but
01:26in older ones you could do if you were with us for our coverage of testing in Bahrain
01:31going into turn 11 uh Lance Stroll okay Max yeah I don't know the car just locked on the rear
01:38axles
01:39but that's it it's not the start to the season that he would have expected a pole sitter here
01:46Max Verstappen twice in the uh last three years but he Lance Stroll had that moment where instead of
01:54using the energy braking uh the system just uh deployed all the braking energy to the rear brakes
02:01locked up the axle
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