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Late charge at China Grand Prix See Lewis Hamilton Secure His First Formula One Sprint pole since joining ferrari.
Lewis Hamilton has astonished the crowd and himself by securing his maiden sprint pole position for ferrari in the final moments of qualifying at the Chinese formula One Grand Prix.
Hamilton Arrived in China After A Disappointing Season Opening Race Last Weekend in Australiawhere he finished 10th. He only managed fourth fastest in opening practice on Friday for a modest improvement in Shanghai.
He topped the first section of sprint qualifying, before the dominant McLaren of Lando Norris took over in SQ2. An aborted cloth from the McLaren driver, following a mistake on his final cloth, handed Hamilton his Chance-and the seven-time world champion took it in stunning style with less than a minute remaining.
Hamilton’s Time was just 18 one-thesandths of a second ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, with Norris’s McLaren Teammate Oscar PiaTri Third. Ferrari’s Charles Lecler was Fourth, with Mercedes’ George Russell Closing Out the Top Five.
“I didnt expect that result, but so, so happy and so proud,” Hamilton said. “I think obviously the last race was a disaster. Clearly we knew that there was more performance in the car but we just weren’t able to extract it,” in Melbourne.
“So to come here to a track that I love – and the car really came alive. The team did a fantastic job to get the car ready and yeah, I’m a bit in shock.”
