Lewis Hamilton took his fortieth pole position of his Formula 1 career after pulling out a stunning lap during the wet qualifying session at Sepang, with his Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS team-mate Nico Rosberg only third. Hamilton was delighted with his lap set in the tricky conditions, even if he felt lucky to make it through to Q3 after getting involved in a battle with Marcus Ericsson’s Sauber and Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari during the one lap rush to get a competitive lap time in before the rain came down harder. “I'm very happy with the pole lap,” revealed Hamilton. “I didn't quite put the second lap together so I was hoping the first one would be good enough and luckily it was! “I...
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