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Hamilton admits “messy” qualifying session cost him 100th F1 pole

The seven-time world champion’s wait to become F1’s first ever pole centurion was made to go on after Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas pipped him to the fastest time in Q3 by just 0.007s. Hamilton had set a lap that was 0.4s quicker than Bottas’ pole time in the second part of qualifying, but when it mattered in the Q3 shootout he came out second best. “It was a difficult session,” Hamilton acknowledged. “I think for everyone, it’s not that easy here, particularly as it is windy and quite slippery on this surface so it was challenging for everyone. “Quite a messy session for me really. Q1 wasn’t good, Q2 I only had one good lap and I would say in the whole session, I...
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