Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the United States Grand Prix with Lewis Hamilton only fifth as he stands poised to seal the title. Bottas headed Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull's Max Verstappen, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Hamilton in a very closely contested session. Bottas was 0.012secs ahead of Vettel as 0.108secs covered the top four. Bottas ends a run of six consecutive pole positions by Ferrari stretching back to the Belgian GP in August. The end of qualifying was an anti-climax as only Verstappen of the top five was able to improve the lap time set on their first runs and Hamilton even aborted his lap. New rules for 2021 revealed Will USA be Hamilton's victory...
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