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Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton takes on 'pressure' for 'beautiful lap'
Lewis Hamilton said he thrives under "pressure" after salvaging a pole position he thought he had blown in Azerbaijan with a "beautiful lap". Hamilton made a mistake on his first lap in final qualifying and was worried he would not be able to make amends when a crash halted the session. But a superb last lap beat team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.434 seconds. Hamilton said: "I had two minutes to get my run. The pressure of that was amazing. I love it." The Mercedes driver's pole position in Baku was the 66th of his career - only two short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record - but he said he was "even more excited than I have been for a long time"....
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