• Leclerc third for Ferrari, Red Bull’s Verstappen fourth
Valtteri Bottas took pole for the British Grand Prix, putting in a fine performance in qualifying under great pressure from the challenge of his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton, who was in second place at Silverstone by just six-thousandths of a second. Charles Leclerc was in third for Ferrari but his teammate Sebastian Vettel could manage only sixth. Max Verstappen was in fourth for Red Bull with his teammate Pierre Gasly in fifth.
Bottas had to pull out an exceptional lap to deny Hamilton and delivered with an almost perfect run on his first flying lap in Q3. On the first hot runs in the final third, Hamilton was quickest in the first and third sectors but had a moment of oversteer through Brooklands in the middle sector and Bottas was able to best his teammate by three tenths, with a time of 1min 25.093sec. Ferrari, however, had work to do, with Leclerc behind Verstappen in fourth and Vettel in sixth.
Written by Giles Richards at Silverstone
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/13/valtteri-bottas-lewis-hamilton-british-f1-gp-pole-mercedes under the title “Valtteri Bottas edges out Lewis Hamilton for British F1 GP pole”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
