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Morning After: The Drought Is Over

Taking his first pole position in ten races, Lewis Hamilton was back to his hammer-time best on Saturday in Abu Dhabi. Possibly the biggest oddity of the 2019 season, Lewis Hamilton’s drought of pole positions since Germany is finally over, and in classic Hamilton-fashion too. Equipped with Mercedes’ spec-3 engine to Valtteri Bottas’ new spec-4, Hamilton still managed to beat the Finn by 0.194 seconds, a seriously impressive accomplishment. Consider not just the performance boost an upgraded power-unit brings, but that Bottas’ was less than a day old, while Hamilton’s was one of his three allotted for the whole season, and it might have been one of his best Saturdays all year....
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