Max Verstappen: 'It was an exciting qualifying and I'm happy to be starting third as I think it was the maximum we could do today. Everyone in the Team works so hard at this race so hopefully they can also be happy with this and my mechanics did a great job. Of course, as a driver and a racer you always want to be on pole but you also have to be realistic. In Q2 it looked pretty good but I knew that they (Mercedes) were coming and that they still had some margin. In Q3 we didn't quite have the tyre temperature that we wanted on the final run, which cost us a bit of lap time, but I still don't think we had enough for the front row. Overall, I feel good in the car and we keep pushing hard to...
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