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Nuerburgring: Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes edged past three-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Pull for the pole position at the German Grand Prix here on Saturday qualifying. This was Mercedes first pole position since 1954.<\/p>\nNuerburgring: Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes edged past three-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Pull for the pole position at the German Grand Prix here on Saturday qualifying. This was Mercedes first pole position since 1954.<\/p>\n
Hamilton set the fastest qualifying time on Saturday of 1 minute, 29.398 seconds. Vettel had dominated the last two practice sessions but ended up .103 seconds behind Hamilton, who gained his 29th career pole.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton said after the qualifying that he was very proud to put the car on pole for Mercedes-Benz. \u201cI have been with Mercedes for a long time and it’s a great result for us to achieve pole here in Germany. I’m a little bit overwhelmed, to be honest, because I have been struggling since first practice this weekend. We were so far off this morning that we took the set-up back to where we started, tried to analyse everything and just worked really hard to improve it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Vettel said, \u201cCongratulations to Lewis on pole. It was very tight today, I tried everything. The car felt fine; I was struggling a little bit this afternoon in the first sector, I was losing time there and then trying to catch up. Unfortunately it wasn\u2019t enough, but it looks like we are a bit closer to the Mercedes here than we were in Silverstone, so I think we made some progress and can have confidence for tomorrow. We had a good run yesterday looking at the race, so I think we have done our homework. We have put the car on the first row; it wasn\u2019t quite enough for pole position, but we should have a good race from there tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Webber, who took the third spot, said, \u201cI was actually happy with third position today, as it was very sensitive out there. We lost a little bit in the first sector and struggled to find the rhythm that we had had there in P3, but we know there was a shift in track temp and it pulled everyone together a bit, at least for the short runs. With the long runs, we\u2019re happy with the car, so we\u2019re in a good position to put pressure on for the race victory tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nuerburgring: Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes edged past three-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Pull for the pole position at the German Grand Prix here on Saturday qualifying. This was Mercedes first pole position since 1954.<\/p>\n
Hamilton set the fastest qualifying time on Saturday of 1 minute, 29.398 seconds. Vettel had dominated the last two practice sessions but ended up .103 seconds behind Hamilton, who gained his 29th career pole.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton said after the qualifying that he was very proud to put the car on pole for Mercedes-Benz. \u201cI have been with Mercedes for a long time and it’s a great result for us to achieve pole here in Germany. I’m a little bit overwhelmed, to be honest, because I have been struggling since first practice this weekend. We were so far off this morning that we took the set-up back to where we started, tried to analyse everything and just worked really hard to improve it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\n