Max Verstappen has revealed the heart-warming reason why he hasn’t gone to see the new F1 film which stars Brad Pitt and was produced by Sir Lewis Hamilton. Directed by Top Gun: Maverick ‘s Joseph Kosinski, F1 tells the story of a veteran racing driver (Pitt) who returns to Formula 1 to drive alongside a hotshot rookie played by Damson Idris.

Charles Leclerc will join him on the front row, while Max Verstappen is P7 only, having called the Red Bull “undriveable”, clashed with a “naughty” Lewis Hamilton in an impeding incident noted by the stewards, before a yellow flag wrecked his final Q3 lap, topping off a frustrating afternoon.

Lando Norris took a dominant pole position at the Austrian Grand Prix, setting the fastest time of every part of qualifying to roar back from his Canadian Grand Prix disaster. A yellow flag at the very end of the session,