SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE POLE FOR MAX VERSTAPEN, FERRARI READY FOR BATTLE

Max Verstappen was fastest in qualifying in Miami, recording his sixth pole position of the season, seventh in a row and 38th of his career.

In Sunday's race he will share the front row with Charles Leclerc. Carlos Sainz Jr. will start from the second. and Sergio Perez, and from the third the two McLaren drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

The Dutchman, after the Sprint triumph, maintains his dominance on this American track, beating the Monegasque by about a tenth of a second.

Carlos Sainz Jr. was the third best on this occasion, in a qualification very different from yesterday, but with a similar finish.

McLaren still can't find the right balance on their updated MCL38 in a single lap. Lando Norris was fifth, behind Sergio Perez and ahead of Oscar Piastri, but the car seems to have more potential than the results achieved.

The Mercedes AMG drivers follow, again George Russell before Lewis Hamilton, and in the last attempts they did not have new sets of red tires, so they saw the use of a new set of yellow tires as a better solution.

Aston Martin fared poorly, with both their drivers unable to make it through the Q2 session, and Fernando Alonso was "unrecognisable". The Spaniard almost crashed out in Q1, was P15, four positions behind Lance Stroll. A difficult path for them.

Hulkenberg, who finished ninth, and Tsunoda, tenth, took their place in the top 10 standings.