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Max Verstappen has suggested that those who believe his team's Singapore slump was down to the FIA's latest technical directive should "suck on an egg".

Today's post-qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.

We're at a slight disadvantage to most teams by having only one hard compound set, but we'll work on a strategy to maximise the race result within the constraints we have.

P2 and P3 is a great day for McLaren, so we are delighted by this result.

We witnessed something very special today. Max was in a different league.

A two-stop will clearly be the most popular option, especially as temperatures should be the same as today.

There were higher expectations within the team at the end of FP3, having seen our cars making progress from Friday, but unfortunately, we weren't able to make that further step forward.

Today's result is not too bad, but our session started on the back foot in Q1 as we wasted a set of Softs because of the red flag triggered by Sargeant.

It will be a long race for everyone and the goal is to come away with both cars in the points.

Our performance today can mainly be attributed to the corner speed range we see here at Suzuka.

Both drivers did a good job - but we have to be honest with ourselves: we did not have enough performance to qualify higher.

A mixed day for us. We have a good selection of new tyres available for the race tomorrow and will be looking to make progress into the top 10 during the Grand Prix.

We knew this was a track that doesn't suit us, and we did the best we could.

The Singapore slump a distant memory, Max Verstappen mega-lap sees the Dutchman take pole at Suzuka, 0.581s up on Oscar Piastri.

Times from today's qualifying session for the Lenovo Japanese Grand Prix.