Magnussen’s Brazil F1 pole ‘wasn’t down to luck’

Magnussen scored the first pole position of his F1 career at Interlagos on Friday after making the most of his track position advantage at the start of Q3 in damp conditions.

Magnussen’s early lap time put him on provisional pole, two tenths of a second clear of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, after getting to the front of the queue to exit the pits before the expected rain hit the track.

A red flag following George Russell’s spin into the gravel meant that by the…