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Russell Beats Antonelli to Canada Sprint Pole in Final Sector
George Russell matched his teammate corner for corner around Montreal, but found the extra fraction where it mattered most, at the Wall of Champions, on the lap that decided the sprint's front row.
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China GP 2026: Antonelli Takes Pole in the Hairpin Sector
Antonelli beat Russell by two tenths for pole in Shanghai, and the sector sheets say it was a hairpin, not the long back straight, that settled it.
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Bottas Beats Hamilton to Baku 2019 Pole After Leclerc Crash
Valtteri Bottas found all his advantage in one corner of one lap, and it was enough to deny Lewis Hamilton pole in a Baku qualifying hour that stopped, twice, for red flags.
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Chinese GP 2019: Bottas Beats Hamilton to Pole by 0.023s
Valtteri Bottas found two hundredths of a second more than his own teammate when it mattered, and that was the whole story of a Shanghai qualifying hour Ferrari could not touch.
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Abu Dhabi GP 2018: Hamilton Takes Pole by 0.04s From Bottas
Lewis Hamilton banked another pole under the Yas Marina lights, but it was the final sector, not the straights, that separated the front row from the rest.
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Hamilton Suzuka 2018: Pole by 0.3s, Vettel 4.4s Back in P9
Hamilton's pole was clean and untroubled, but Suzuka's Saturday will be remembered for the two-second cliff that swallowed Vettel the moment Ferrari guessed wrong about the rain.
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Russian GP 2018: Bottas Beats Hamilton to Pole by 0.145s
Valtteri Bottas beat Lewis Hamilton to pole by a tenth and a half at Sochi, while Red Bull chose to abandon the fight before it started.
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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.
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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.
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Hamilton Takes 2018 French GP Pole, Mercedes Lock Out Row 1
Hamilton beat Bottas by barely a blink to take pole on Formula 1's return to Paul Ricard, but the real story was the gulf that opened up two seconds behind the top six.