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Verstappen expected much bigger gap to Mercs

Max Verstappen was very happy with his qualifying performance in Spa having expected to be much further behind Mercedes. The Dutchman will settle into his familiar P3 spot on the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix having qualified 0.526s slower than pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton. He did though come extremely close to denying Valtteri Bottas P2, finishing Q3 just 0.015s slower than the Mercedes man. That's comfortably the closest he has been to a Merc in qualifying trim this year, and considering the fact that Spa is a power-sensitive circuit, Verstappen was very pleased with his efforts. 'We expected to come here and, with the long straights around here, it's never going to be the easiest for...
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