Red Bull's championship leader Max Verstappen flew to pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz joining him on the front row after a dramatic qualifying.
Verstappen was nearly half a second clear of the Spaniard and so good was his first lap in the final phase that he aborted the second once it became clear nobody else was going to beat him.
Red Bull's Sergio Perez, Verstappen's closest title rival but 39 points behind after six races, qualified only 11th after a trip into the gravel while Ferrari's Charles Leclerc will start a shock 19th on the grid.Six different teams filled the top six positions, with Canadian Lance Stroll qualifying sixth and ahead of Aston Martin team mate Fernando Alonso, in ninth, for the first time this season.
"Unbelievable," said the Ferrari driver, who had complained earlier about a problem with his rear tyres, when his engineer confirmed the result.
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