AUSTIN — Red Bull’s Max Verstappen set the pace in final practice on Saturday for the U.S. Grand Prix while Lewis Hamilton was an unbothered fifth best with a sixth drivers’ title already in his grasp. With Ferrari chasing a seventh consecutive pole, Sebastian Vettel turned in the second-best effort, 0.218 behind Verstappen, while McLaren’s Lando Norris was third. Mercedes’s Valtteri Bottas, the only remote threat standing between Hamilton and another title, was fourth, ahead of his team mate. A seventh consecutive pole would equal a record for the Italian outfit that was achieved between the 2000 Italian Grand Prix and the 2001 Brazilian Grand Prix. It has been a problem-filled weekend for the young Monegasque who also saw his first free practice cut short with engine problems.

Source: National Post November 02, 2019 19:30 UTC