Despite setting the pace on Friday, Lewis Hamilton failed to find the sweetspot of his Mercedes W10 in the qualifying session for today’s United States Grand Prix. In contrast to the Briton, his teammate Valtteri Bottas narrowly beat his rival to take his 11th career F1 pole position after his struggles in Friday’s practices. Not his day – Lewis Hamilton produced some impressive qualifying runs and race simulation on different tyre compounds on Friday, but he could not replicate that performance when it mattered the most in the all-important qualifying session. At the weekend when he can claim his sixth world title, he had to conceded that he simply could not put a good lap together....
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