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Five live Formula One.

We have a bumper podcast. five live formula one.

We have a bumper podcast for you today with a sprint race and qualifying to discuss

at a dominant Saturday for Max Verstappen,

taking his 40th pole position and winning what he described as a spicy sprint race.

Ben Edwards and Mark Priestley watched events unfold.

We'll discuss the sprint in a moment, but we have to start with

qualifying and Max was a country mile ahead of everyone else then.

Absolutely and it's interesting because often the time differences here in Austria are tiny because it's not a long lap in terms of

that time but he actually had a decent margin throughout the whole of qualifying actually

It wasn't just like one run he kept doing it and we were quite surprised in the end at the gap he had

and Landa Norris came second again so as it was in the sprint race grid which we as you say we'll talk about the sprint race later but

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