Verstappen marks 50th career pole with a dry joke about 51

Max Verstappen marked his 50th career pole in Singapore with a dry comparison: it was better than 49, he said, though 51 would be better still. He added that he would keep going.

He took pole for Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix in Saturday qualifying, after securing sprint pole on Friday and winning the sprint on Saturday. Asked what the pole meant to him, Verstappen called it nice and said he thought Red Bull had been strong throughout the weekend. His 50 poles put him among five drivers to reach the mark, alongside Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna and Sebastian Vettel.