Bottas Pole Position in Silverstone

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Less than a blink of an eye formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton to the top spot. Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas is minimally faster than the Briton – and a lot faster than Sebastian Vettel.

To like world champion Lewis Hamilton from great Britain would start his home Grand Prix at Silverstone from one Position into the race. But the tiny size of 0.006 seconds, he lacked in Qualifying, less than a blink of an eye (about 0.1 seconds). “I wasn’t good enough tonight,” said Hamilton. The sovereign leader of the world championship standings, will it be able to get over. Minimally faster than Hamilton, his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas was only. For the Finns it was the fourth Pole Position of the season.

Vettel: “Too little Speed”

Third was Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque was just under eight hundredths of a second slower than Bottas, and spoke afterwards of the “Maximum” price for what he can get out against the Mercedes-competition. Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel disappointed with a ranking of six. “All in all, it lacked a bit of Speed. I haven’t felt so comfortable in the car, the Speed came alone,” said Vettel: “a round, it is at the Moment not really. I was all the time the same – and all the others were getting faster and faster.”

Mercedes in the favorites role

Between the two Ferraris and the two Red Bull pilots, the fall, Dutchman Max verse, the winner of the last race in Austria moved to rank four and the Frenchman Pierre Gasly in Fifth. Niko Hulkenberg ended up in the Renault at the start of the tenth place.

Prior to the British Grand Prix this Sunday (Start at 15.10 GMT), the tenth of 21 races this season, leads the five-time world champion Hamilton with 197 points, well clear of Bottas (166). The four-time Champion Vettel (123) as the Fourth is already 74 points behind and in desperate need of victories in order to preserve his shot at the Title yet. Third-party Max Verstappen (126).

Mercedes as a “favorite” in the tradition of the Grand Prix. From 2013 to 2017, it was for the factory team at Silverstone, and five successes in a sequence, four of which caught Hamilton. In the previous year, Vettel had won ahead of his British rival. î