ABU DHABI:
A happy and supremely-dominant Lewis Hamilton crushed all his rivals as he set up a Red Bull party-wrecking race in today’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by taking his sixth pole position of the season.
The 27-year-old Briton was simply untouchable as he steered his car to the fastest time in all three parts of the session, finishing with an outstanding best time of one minute and 40.630 seconds. Defending champion and series leader Sebastian Vettel qualified only third and will miss out on a front row start in Abu Dhabi for the first time after suffering technical problems for much of the day.
Hamilton’s best lap, clocked on his first run in the top ten shootout, was good enough to leave him three-tenths of a second clear of Vettel’s teammate Mark Webber who will share the front row with him for the 55-laps race at the 5.554 kms Yas Marina Circuit.
“I’m very excited,” said Hamilton. “It’s the first time for a long time I’m ahead of the Red Bulls and starting at the front. It’s going to be tough in the race and I hope we are strong enough to fight them once again. The car’s felt beautiful all weekend but we’ve not made any improvement since last weekend so I guess it just likes the track and hopefully it will continue to like it tomorrow.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 4th, 2012.
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