- Valtteri Bottas snapped a two-month pole position drought by topping qualifying for the British Grand Prix on Saturday, edging out Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton by six-thousandths of a second. It marked Bottas’s first pole since the Spanish Grand Prix, and was the 10th of his F1 career. He now has more pole positions this year than any other driver (4). - Bottas set his fastest time on his first Q3 lap, failing to improve with his second effort. Hamilton and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc (0.079s down) both improved as they took the chequered flag, but could not stop the Finn from grabbing pole. - It marked Hamilton’s first qualifying defeat at Silverstone since 2014, and prevented...
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