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Abu Dhabi Qualifying: Bottas steals it from Hamilton
Valtteri Bottas claimed pole position for the season finale Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a scintillating lap that his teammate Lewis Hamilton was unable to match as Mercedes were clearly the better car on the night at the pristine Yas Marina Circuit. Bottas played second fiddle to Hamilton up until qualifying when the Finn found an extra bit in his penultimate run in Q3, popping a jaw-dropping 1:36.231 on a cooling track under floodlights. Hamilton had it all to do on his final run and was up by nine-thousandths of a second after the first two sectors, but trying too hard in the final sequence of bends saw his Mercedes get out of shape and costing him time. He will start the race from...
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