Max Verstappen faces a fight to take pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix after calling his Red Bull ‘unacceptable’ in final practice. As Carlos Sainz raced to the top of the time charts at the Marina Bay Circuit, Verstappen finished fourth. But Verstappen bemoaned the handling of his car in the city-state, describing the upshifts in his Red Bull machinery as ‘unacceptable’. Verstappen returned to the track in the closing moments of the one-hour running, ringing the neck of his Red Bull to move from sixth to fourth, 0.313 sec slower than Sainz. Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez, who won here last year, finished eighth, 0.719 sec back.

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