Verstappen shouting in Q3: 'What the hell has happened?'

While rain was pouring down from the Brazilian sky outside, Verstappen was inside on the press conference couch analysing qualifying. "The gaps were very, very small between everyone. Through Q1, Q2 you could see that everyone was using a lot of tyre sets and I made it quite interesting, I think. We lined up to go out for Q3, and you could see that the sky was just black. I was like, wow, if that rain hits, it's going to be a lot. So, the out lap was quite quick. We went for the lap and in the first sector it felt alright."

Verstappen had never seen rain like that before

"The rest of the lap felt shocking. So, I think what happened, throughout the lap was the rain was coming in. It was not hitting the track yet, but the wind increased a lot and it changed direction to a tailwind in the middle sector. The car was just sliding all over the place. I was shouting on the radio, like, what the hell happened? We are nowhere, but the team just told me to keep pushing because they said everyone was struggling out there. But I've never experienced something like that. There's such a big influence on car balance. You could see the weather influence quite extremely."

In Q1 and Q2, the differences between them were probably more manageable. Verstappen returns to that: "It was a bit difficult over the bumps. I don't know why that was the case because we didn't really touch the car. We need to understand that because on the bumps it was not very comfortable. We tried to work our way around it."

"The gaps were just very close. I think we were quite competitive. I think no one really knew who was going to be first in Q3. It would have been a normal session without the weather incoming. I think that makes it quite interesting for Sunday as well to see how everything will evolve with the long-run pace," the three-time world champion concluded.