Hamilton is on Pole in Germany
July 19th, 2008Another superb Lewis Hamilton pole position, this time in Hockenheim, Germany.
Lewis was looking good since he arrived at the Hockenheim circuit setting the fastest practice times throughout the weekend so far. His car was very well set-up, contrary to Kimi’s Ferrari which just didn’t hook up very well at all. But Hamilton was on form all weekend and today managed to secure his pole position for tomorrow Hockenheim Grand Prix.
Here’s what Hamilton had to say:
My final lap I was quite happy with it to be honest,
it went very smoothly, I think on the first Q3 lap again was looking to be a good lap but they put the yellow flags out in turn 12 – I think Heikki ran a bit wide – so to be careful that I didn’t get any penalties, I lifted quite a lot and the time wasn’t great. But I knew I had it in me and that we had the pace.
My final lap was pretty smooth, pretty easy going and I think we could have gone a little bit quicker if we needed to, so I’m quite cool.
Well it is very close as you can see I was quite surprised to see how close it was between all the teams – Sebastian Vettel was up there, Fernando Alonso was quick in the Renault and Mark Webber as well.
But it is very close between McLaren and Ferrari – a tenth here and there maybe – but I feel we have the pace, can keep moving forward and hopefully we can win.
German Grand Prix Starting Grid:
1. HAMILTON McLaren 2. MASSA Ferrari 3. KOVALAINEN McLaren 4. TRULLI Toyota 5. ALONSO Renault 6. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 7. KUBICA BMW 8. WEBBER Red Bull 9. VETTEL Toro Rosso 10. COULTHARD Red Bull 11. GLOCK Toyota 12. HEIDFELD BMW 13. ROSBERG Williams 14. BUTTON Honda 15. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 16. NAKAJIMA Williams 17. PIQUET Renault 18. BARRICHELLO Honda 19. SUTIL Force India 20. FISICHELLA Force India
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