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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Lewis Hamilton beat team-mate Nico Rosberg ..[ 4206 ]

Lewis Hamilton beats Mercedes team-mate Rosberg to Spain pole

10 May 2014 Last updated at 17:06 GMT

Lewis Hamilton beat team-mate Nico Rosberg in a private battle for pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Hamilton had looked to be struggling, but a superb lap in the final seconds gave him a fourth pole in five races.
Hamilton was 1.053secs quicker than Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo in third.
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Sebastioan Vettel breaks down during qualifying
Spanish GP: Sebastian Vettel breaks down in qualifying
Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Lotus' Romain Grosjean were fourth and fifth ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso, while Sebastian Vettel will start 15th on the grid. 
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The world champion finished 10th but was later given a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox for the race.
The German had originally failed to set a time in the top 10 shoot-out after his Red Bull lost drive coming out of the pits at the start of the session.
Finn Raikkonen was just 0.036secs ahead of team-mate Alonso as Ferrari slipped back in competitiveness following an upgrade in performance from Renault, engine supplier to Red Bull and Lotus.
McLaren's Jenson Button was eighth ahead of the Williams of Felipe Massa, with Vettel rounding out the top 10.
Hamilton had been in supreme form on Friday, but appeared to be lagging behind Rosberg through final practice and the first two parts of qualifying, in which the German was quicker.
But after the final session was briefly stopped to recover Vettel's Red Bull, which was stranded at Turn Three, Hamilton was nearly 0.3secs clear of Rosberg on their first runs.
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Lewis Hamilton pushed car to limit to get pole
Spanish GP: Lewis Hamilton 'ecstatic' to claim pole position

Rosberg closed the gap slightly on their all-important final run but Hamilton just had too much.
"It's been a tough day," Hamilton said. "Nico has been driving really well so I didn't know whether I'd be able to get it. But right at the end I managed to get absolutely everything out of the car.
"Yesterday [Friday] I had such a great day and I was really happy with the car. Often when things are that good you don't want to change much, but we changed a couple of small things here and there.

Qualifying: Hamilton v Rosberg 2014

  • Australia: Hamilton 1st, Rosberg 3rd
  • Malaysia: Hamilton 1st, Rosberg 3rd
  • Bahrain: Rosberg 1st, Hamilton 2nd
  • China: Hamilton 1st, Rosberg 4th
  • Spain: Hamilton 1st, Rosberg 2nd
"Today the track went down [in pace] and the car was a real handful. Lots of oversteer, very inconsistent corner to corner and once you're in qualifying there is nothing you can do.
"So that's why we made some changes [during qualifying]. I was struggling to put a lap together but in the end I made it by the skin of my teeth. I tweaked the diff settings a little bit and drove the car a little bit differently."
Rosberg said: "Very disappointed, I don't enjoy coming second to Lewis. In the end it was a good lap from me, and Lewis just did a better job. That's the way it is. It's still all to play for tomorrow. It only takes a good start and I'm in the lead again."
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Spanish Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton's pole-winning lap
Spanish Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton's pole-winning lap

Ricciardo added: "Best of the rest but it's not quite good enough. Still a second off. That's too much. We've made some improvements, but Mercedes have as well."
Grosjean's fifth place is comfortably the team's best qualifying performance of the year after a difficult start to the season.
The team have been battling reliability problems after a late start to pre-season testing but after making progress in the first four races are finally in a position to exploit the car's potential.
The Franco-Swiss's team-mate Pastor Maldonado qualified last after crashing at Turn Three on his first lap of the first session.

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