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1 15 Sep 2018 Singapore GP 2018: Hamilton Pole by 0.319s Over Verstappen Marina Bay was supposed to belong to Ferrari and Red Bull, yet Lewis Hamilton found a lap from nowhere to take pole by three-tenths and leave Sebastian Vettel staring at two cars he has to get past on Sunday. 2 1 Sep 2018 Italian GP 2018: Raikkonen Beats Vettel to Pole by 0.161s Vettel led every session all weekend and looked to have delivered Ferrari's home pole with his final lap, but it was Kimi Raikkonen, running in his slipstream, who stole it from him in the last seconds. 3 26 Aug 2018 Belgian GP 2018: Vettel Beats Hamilton by 11s at Spa Vettel's move on Hamilton was decided in the opening seconds, but it was a cleaner final tyre stint that turned a narrow launch-line pass into an eleven-second cruise to the flag. 4 25 Aug 2018 Belgian GP 2018: Hamilton Takes Pole by 0.7s in Q3 Rain Ferrari had the faster car through two dry segments at Spa, yet it was Hamilton who read the sky correctly when it mattered and walked away with pole. 5 29 Jul 2018 Hamilton Wins 2018 Hungarian GP, Raikkonen Fastest in Third Lewis Hamilton controlled the Hungaroring from pole to flag, but it was Kimi Räikkönen, not Hamilton or Vettel, who drove the fastest race of the afternoon and still finished third. 6 28 Jul 2018 Hamilton Beats Bottas to Wet Hungarian GP 2018 Pole Ferrari had spent all weekend quicker in the dry, but the rain arrived precisely when Hungaroring qualifying began and Lewis Hamilton read it best of all, beating teammate Valtteri Bottas to pole by a quarter of a second. 7 22 Jul 2018 Hamilton Wins German GP 2018 From 14th as Vettel Crashes Sebastian Vettel led his home race for over fifty laps on slick tyres, but Lewis Hamilton's one-stop gamble and a late Hockenheim downpour turned a Ferrari coronation into a Mercedes 1-2. 8 21 Jul 2018 German GP 2018: Vettel Takes Record Pole, Hamilton 14th Sebastian Vettel tore up his own history at Hockenheim with a track-record pole in front of a flag-waving home crowd, but the number that will actually shape Sunday is the P14 next to his title rival's name. 9 8 Jul 2018 Vettel Wins 2018 British GP; Hamilton Recovers to Second Vettel led off the start, lost the race to a Mercedes strategy gamble on lap one of the safety cars, and won it back with a bold dive at Brooklands that Hamilton's frantic recovery from the back of the grid couldn't quite catch. 10 7 Jul 2018 British GP 2018: Hamilton Takes Pole by 0.044s From Vettel Kimi Raikkonen was quicker through two of the lap's three sectors, yet Lewis Hamilton's speed through Aintree and Wellington was worth more than both of them combined. 11 1 Jul 2018 Verstappen Wins 2018 Austrian GP as Mercedes Double DNF Red Bull's home race was won as much in the Mercedes garage as on the Red Bull Ring's tarmac, and the pit stop that never came proved more decisive than anything Max Verstappen did on track. 12 30 Jun 2018 Bottas Beats Hamilton to Austrian GP 2018 Pole by 0.019s Valtteri Bottas out-nudged his own team-mate for pole at the Red Bull Ring, but the bigger story down the order was a Red Bull garage that spent Saturday fighting itself as much as Mercedes and Ferrari.