World champion Max Verstappen rebounded from practice problems when he maintained his 100% Grand Prix qualifying season record at the Emilia Romagna weekend and tied a Formula One record from Ayrton Senna. Red Bull’s Verstappen clocked 1 minute 14.746 seconds around the 4.909-kilometres Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari for his seventh season and 39th career pole just ahead of the McLaren duo of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Verstappen found some extra pace after coming fifth, sixth and seventh in the three Imola practice sessions, saying via team radio “What a difficult start but…