McLaren is slightly surprised by its pace advantage on Red Bull, but not for the reasons many had speculated about

Over the first eight rounds of the year, Red Bull spoke more than anyone else about this weekend’s technical directive. The Milton Keynes squad were adamant that harsher flexi-wing restrictions would eat into McLaren’s advantage.

Max Verstappen was beaten by more than quarter of a second by Oscar Piastri in Q1 for the Spanish Grand Prix, but team-mate Yuki Tsunoda was the headline-maker on Saturday afternoon, setting the slowest time of the session to qualify 20th and last.