Brazil GP: Valtteri Bottas’ pole position soothes Mercedes’ pain of Hamilton crash, robbery
Valtteri Bottas took pole position for Mercedes at the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday while team mate and newly-crowned four-times world champion Lewis Hamilton will start at the back after crashing out.
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel will join the Finn, who is 15 points behind him in the championship, on the front row with his Finnish team mate Kimi Raikkonen third and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen fourth.
The pole was the third of Bottas’s career and he did it with a track record time of one minute 08.322 seconds at a damp Interlagos.
“It feels good. It was so close with Seb all through qualifying,” said the Finn, who was 0.038 quicker than Vettel. “It’s a shame Lewis went out but I’m happy I could do a good job for the team.”
BOT: “It feels good. It was so close with Seb all through qualifying. It’s a shame Lewis went out but I’m happy I could do a good job for the team” #BrazilGP#F1 pic.twitter.com/1DIIjayk88
— Formula 1 (@F1) November 11, 2017
Hamilton, who clinched his fourth world championship in Mexico two weeks ago, had been hoping for a 12th pole of the season …read more