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Lewis Hamilton
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Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton narrowly beat Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen to seal his 4th consecutive pole position. Incidentally, Hamilton finished the session 0.044 seconds ahead of Vettel, the same as Lewis’ racing number.
Prior to qualifying, Brendon Hartley was forced to sit out after a big off in Practice 3 due to a suspension failure. This led to a lot of chewed nails when remaining Toro Rosso, Pierre Gasly, reported a vibration. Fortunately, the car survived the ordeal and he managed to get into Q2 at least.
Meanwhile, Williams had a nightmarish session as both drivers spun off on separate occasions. Senior driver Lance Stroll ended up in the kitty litter for good. Meanwhile Sergey Sirotkin managed to rally drive his way back to the pits.
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Joining Hartley and the 2 Williams were Stoffel Vandoorne (again) and a gutted Carlos Sainz. Q2 was a bit calmer with no real shenanigans with Nico Hulkenberg the lead driver to be eliminated. Joining him were Sergio Perez, Fernando Alonso, Pierre Gasly and Marcus Ericsson.
In the final session of qualifying, Hamilton took top honours ahead of Vettel and Raikkonen respectively. Bottas in the other Mercedes finished ahead of the two Red Bulls of Verstappen and Ricciardo. Behind them, on another stellar performance were the Haas duo of Magnussen and Grosjean followed by Charles LeClerc and Esteban Ocon.
Here is how Twitter reacted to the qualifying session and Lewis Hamilton grabbing his 4th consecutive pole position.
Daniel Ricciardo lost DRS on quickest Q3 lap #F1 #BritishGP https://t.co/Zky1zCtou6 pic.twitter.com/bfXaaex0eY
— Motorsport Week (@MotorsportWeek) July 7, 2018
#BritishGP any chance we could see or hear the F2 commentary that we paid to see? Didn't come for football……
— David Kirk (@veyron_fan) July 7, 2018
Congratulations to @LewisHamilton on securing pole for tomorrow’s #BritishGP #f1
— Ken Smy (@smy_ken) July 7, 2018
Wow. @LewisHamilton, you are the man. Smashed it out there today. Another home pole! I am absolutely buzzing. Crazy emotions right now. So happy ❤️ #TeamLH #BritishGP
— Beth (@beth_f1) July 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/PeterTully1/status/1015611333696475136?s=20
Remember when someone said that Vandoorne is almost as good as Alonso? Me neither. #BritishGP
— TOMMY 🇧🇬 (@BulgarianCF) July 7, 2018
YES!!! @LewisHamilton has stuck it on pole! What.A.Lap! The home support here never fails to amaze me. Thank you Lewis, you’ve made thousands of people very happy! @MercedesAMGF1 #F1 #BritishGP #TeamLH pic.twitter.com/MWZlq8ixRd
— Tom Hallam (@TomHallamF1) July 7, 2018
Racing’s coming home…. All the best tomorrow @LewisHamilton 🇬🇧 #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/i94DcqoPPG
— billywhizz (@BillyMonger) July 7, 2018
MiniDrivers – #F1 – #BritishGP – Qualifying#Hamilton #Vettel #Raikkonen https://t.co/880T7mgVLL pic.twitter.com/roSrdaqL0z
— MiniDrivers (@OfficialMinis) July 7, 2018
P5 it is, the best we could do today in qualifying. The car felt really good in Q3. It will be difficult to challenge the guys ahead tomorrow, so let’s hope for an exciting race #keeppushing #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/WTqkjMPQbu
— Max Verstappen (@Max33Verstappen) July 7, 2018
Good job for @ScuderiaFerrari today at #BritishGP. Ottima prestazione della #SF71H oggi a Silverstone. Buen trabajo de #Seb5 y #Kimi7 pic.twitter.com/d3cMrzK0g9
— Marc Gené (@marc_gene) July 7, 2018
Its a slim margin, but pole is pole. Congratulations @LewisHamilton @MercedesAMGF1 #F1 #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/G0b5NE6srr
— Formula 1 Circus (@Formula1circus) July 7, 2018
Vettel quick to brush off the neck injury: "It wasn’t the most enjoyable session, but it’s nothing. We did the session so it’s fine. The speed tomorrow is less than in qualy, so it's going to be OK" #F1 #BritishGP
— Luke Smith (@LukeSmithF1) July 7, 2018
Close battle but Lewis Hamilton takes pole for #BritishGP beating Sebastian Vettel by 0.044s and Kimi Raikkonen by 0.098s. #Haas' Kevin Magnussen took the best of the rest honours: https://t.co/QNCFTUbqMR #F1 @MercedesAMGF1 @HaasF1Team @F1 @fia pic.twitter.com/nZemgBSxMR
— Darshan Chokhani (@DarshanChokhani) July 7, 2018
P11 for tomorrow..
A satisfactory result after several problems in the morning.#BritishGP pic.twitter.com/wxsca2Jynk— Nico Hülkenberg (@HulkHulkenberg) July 7, 2018
Twitter I love it!
Good to SEE From Morocco that our Hero @Max33Verstappen did a perfect job #BritishGP in Qualy👍. 🚗💨💨💨💨💨😜 pic.twitter.com/dKTtXOPoVL
— Tim Coronel (@TimCoronel) July 7, 2018
Very good job #Seb5 #Kimi7 #BritishGP #Quali pic.twitter.com/wbEdprKAbP
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) July 7, 2018
Part 1 of the historic treble completed @LewisHamilton on pole @SilverstoneUK #BritishGP 🏴✅ https://t.co/4yX8gGjPB0
— Tom Firth (@firttd) July 7, 2018
Kisses all around 😘#P1 #Quali #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/d6gc7yJxdQ
— Lewis Updates (@LH44updates) July 7, 2018
Anyone that says Kimi is washed up and needs to retire just needs to look at his performance this weekend #F1 #BritishGP
— Georgina Yeomans (@gina_maggie) July 7, 2018
No worries, you have the race pace… looking forward! And get some painkillers 😂 #Seb5 #Ferrari #BritishGP https://t.co/pdXgqq7ozw
— Angelo Tanzi (@LNmyskin) July 7, 2018
Just a few people watching the footie at @SilverstoneUK after an awesome performance from @LewisHamilton to take pole #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/q2gWUB6iXP
— Katie is Bendy (@KateisBendy) July 7, 2018
It was a nightmare Saturday afternoon for Williams at Silverstone 😩#BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/yLZrtPDdgY
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 7, 2018
Hamilton out the pits early so he can be back in time for the England game #BritishGP
— WTF1 (@wtf1official) July 7, 2018
🏁 #Q3 #Quali #BritishGP 🇬🇧
So that was a lot of fun! 🙌
Here’s how we line up on the grid for Sunday’s 52-lap #BritishGP:
P7 – @KevinMagnussen 🇩🇰
P8 – @RGrosjean 🇫🇷#HaasF1 #F1 pic.twitter.com/eInaJVdX3D— Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) July 7, 2018
YESSSSSSS!!! #BritishGP pole for @LewisHamilton!!! 💪💪 pic.twitter.com/qv8YJO8ZjF
— Mercedes-AMG F1 (@MercedesAMGF1) July 7, 2018
Don’t want to keep mentioning Charles Leclerc but… Charles Leclerc! #BritishGP #F1
— WTF1 (@wtf1official) July 7, 2018
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P2 and P3 for the Scuderia, great fighters #Seb5 and #Kimi7 #ForzaFerrari !! #Quali #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/5F9Nmqb8oa
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) July 7, 2018
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RAIKKONEN: "I think we will be good for tomorrow. It will be hot, not easy for the tyres" #BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1 pic.twitter.com/xZMuNI9y0e
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 7, 2018
