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Lewis Hamilton Scores His Fourth Pole Position This Year in Spain

After a rather close battle during the final moments of qualifying with Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton managed to secure his fourth pole position out of give races this season at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
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Lewis Hamilton: “I’m overwhelmed to get pole position because I’ve had a pretty tough day in the car, particularly after yesterday went so well. I was really happy on Friday and we changed a couple of small things overnight, just the tiniest of tweaks. But it was a real handful today because track conditions had changed. Nico had a strong P3 and first two sessions of qualifying, so we were making small adjustments to the differential to try and make improvements to how the car was handling for Q3.

On that final run, I really had to eke out everything and more from the car and myself to get pole and I’m so happy that I managed it. The hard work from the team and the development step we have made this weekend are totally inspiring for me – I haven’t experienced this level of performance before. I’ve never won at this circuit and I would love to, because my support in Barcelona has been growing every year and I have some amazing fans here in Spain. We are going to give it everything we can tomorrow to get the win.”

Unfortunately, despite having a trouble-free qualification session, Nico Rosberg didn't manage to finish with a better lap time than his team mate, with less than two tenths of a second separating the two Mercedes-AMG Petronas drivers in the end.

Today's pole position was Lewis Hamilton's ninth for the Mercedes-AMG team and his 35th in his entire Formula One career.

With his team mate Nico right on Hamilton's back and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo starting in third, tomorrow's Spanish Grand Prix should be a rather interesting race with at least one battle for first place to happen, despite the total domination of Mercedes-Benz.
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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