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Hamilton: My Montreal lap was special but this one topped it

Lewis Hamilton delivered a superb lap in Canada to match his idol Ayrton Senna's record of 65, now two weeks later the Mercedes driver has gone one better than the late great Brazilian, claiming pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with a lap that he believes was even better than the one in Montreal. Pole position in Baku was the 66th of Hamilton's F1 career, two shy of Michael Schumacher's all time top spot starts. It was one of those special laps which again stunned the F1 paddock, coming after a problematic couple of days of practice, and then delivered in trying circumstances on his final run of the session. Hamilton said afterwards, 'I came across the line so happy because even...
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