Mixed conditions characterised qualifying at Silverstone, with the session starting on the intermediate tyre and the track then progressively drying out. Practically all the drivers used the intermediate tyre throughout Q1, but a notable exception was McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who put the supersoft on in the very closing stages of Q1 to go fastest. The supersoft was used by most drivers for the rest of qualifying, but Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas - who faces a five-place grid penalty tomorrow - took the strategic decision to set his fastest time in Q2 on the soft.His team mate Lewis Hamilton took an extraordinary pole on the supersoft at the very end of Q3, his time of 1m26.600s (the...
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