Sebastian Vettel secured a fifty-fifth career pole position with a new lap record around the Hockenheimring on Saturday, a day made better by seeing his main championship rival fall by the wayside with a mechanical issue. Vettel stormed to pole position with a lap of 1:11.212s, just over two-tenths of a second clear of Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport’s Valtteri Bottas, but the second Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton will start at best in fourteenth place after grinding to a halt with a hydraulics issue at the end of the first phase of Qualifying. The Scuderia Ferrari driver felt pole position was possible early on in Qualifying, and he hopes to convert that into his first victory of his...
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