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DRS issue stopped Hamilton joining Hungary pole fight

Lewis Hamilton revealed his DRS would not open in the final part of qualifying, hampering his chances of being in the battle for pole in Hungary on Saturday. Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate George Russell took his first career pole position in stunning fashion on Saturday afternoon, in a session which had seen the Ferrari pair of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc look favourites for pole. But despite not setting a purple sector at any point, Russell earned pole in his Mercedes, while Hamilton was clearly disappointed to have not been in the fight at the front at that point, with a faulty rear wing being the culprit. “Yeah, I tried to open the DRS and it wouldn't open, so a bit...
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