There can be no argument over who will be the fastest man on track for Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix. After Max Verstappen delivered a crushingly quick lap at Spa-Francorchamps in qualifying he appears unstoppable and he knows it, for all that he will not begin the race from pole because of a five-place grid penalty.
Starting in sixth will barely be an inconvenience, a gnat pestering a giant for Verstappen who set the quickest lap in Belgium by almost a full second. His dominance was such in the end that an earlier angry exchange with his race engineer appeared to be a rank overreaction from the Dutchman.
