Lewis Hamilton says he had to compose himself and recover after a spin in qualifying to take his 91st pole position at the British Grand Prix. The defending champion was struggling to match teammate Valtteri Bottas in the early part of qualifying and then spun on his first run in Q2 with Bottas already quickest. Understandably Hamilton was still adrift of the Finn at the end of that part of the session, but he bounced back in Q3 with an impressive response to take pole by 0.3s. “Obviously there is a relatively big gap between us and third place, but it doesn’t matter,” Hamilton said. “At the end of the day Valtteri is pushing me right to the limit and he’d been doing such a...
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