By Daily Sports on July 14, 2019

Valtteri Bottas beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position by the tiniest of margins at the British Grand Prix.

The Finn beat the world champion by just 0.006 seconds as Hamilton just failed to make up on his second lap for a mistake on his first run in the final session.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was a threat but ended up just 0.079secs behind in third.

The Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly pushed Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel down to sixth place.

Leclerc had looked like a real contender for pole position after setting the pace by just over 0.1secs in the second knockout session.

But he made a mistake on his first run as the Mercedes drivers came to the fore.

Hamilton had a slide when he lost rear grip in Brooklands corner on his first run, when Bottas beat him by nearly 0.3secs.

Hamilton improved on his second run while Bottas could not but it was not quite enough.

Vettel was struggling, the four-time world champion looking out of sorts all day and ending up 0.615secs slower than Leclerc, who has now beaten the German for three qualifying sessions in a row. (BBC)

•Photo shows Valterri Boltas

Source Daily Sports

Posted July 14, 2019

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