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Valtteri Bottas beats Lewis Hamilton to pole position in Bahrain
Valtteri Bottas will start the Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position after setting the pace in qualifying for the first time in his Formula 1 career. The Finnish driver looked close to Lewis Hamilton in the first two segments of qualifying but trailed his Mercedes team-mate. Bottas held onto second place after the opening runs of Q3, but put in a 1:28.769 to take provisional pole. Hamilton suffered a poor final part of the lap and couldn’t beat him. So, Bottas clinched his first pole position and put in the quickest ever lap of the Bahrain International Circuit, with Hamilton locking out the front row. Sebastian Vettel was a slightly distant third, ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi...
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