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Bottas: Seven-tenths is obviously a big gap
It cannot be easy for Valtteri Bottas, his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton has hit the best form of his life, and in qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix the Finn simply had no answer to the pole-winning pace set by the driver in the other Silver Arrows on the night. Hamilton shattered the Marina Bay Circuit lap record with the best time of 1:36.015 in Q3, while Bottas who was only good for 1:36.702, almost seven-tenths down on the benchmark time, conceded, 'P4 is obviously not ideal.' And added, 'I can't be happy with this result. Everything was going pretty well from FP3 all the way up to Q2, but then the others could find big chunks in Q3 and I couldn't, I just didn't really feel...
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