Lewis Hamilton eyes Max Verstappen fight after “totally unexpected” F1 Australian GP qualifying result
Hamilton finished 0.372s off the pace of polesitter Verstappen as he took third behind Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell in qualifying on Saturday.
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After Mercedes’ most competitive showing of the season so far, Hamilton was bullish about his team’s chances of taking the fight to Ver💞stappen’s sole♌ Red Bull on Sunday.
“This is a t꧂otally unexpec𓂃ted,” Hamilton said. “Really proud of the team.
"George did a🧔n amazing job there today so fo🗹r us to be up on the front two rows in honestly a dream for us.
"We are all working as hard as we can to get right back up to th💞e front so to be this close to Red Bull is incredible.
"Hopefully tomorrow we can give them a run for their m🅺oney and weജ hope the weather is good.
"I am super grateful for this position and I am just going toꦆ wo🐻rk as hard as I can tomorrow.”
Asked what his goal is for the race, Ha♌milton replied: “[My goal] is to get to first.
"I am going to try and see and I will be hoping like my first day here 2007, Turn 1. 🗹;
"I don't know if anybody remembers but hopefully we can do that."&nꦕbsp;
Russell, who pipped 💫Hamilton by just 0.035s and was 0.236s adrift of Verstappen, said Mercedes’ performance was a big surp🍃rise.
"We weren't expecting t🔴hat - that's for sure,” he said.
"A lot of hard work going on at the factory, here ꦅin M๊elbourne and wow, what a session for us.
"The car felt alive, the lap at the end was right on the limit and to be honest I'm a little bit disappointed thไat we didn't get pole position.
"It's one of those things where your expectations change so quickly in this s♔port.”
The Briton added: "We would have been happy with🔯 a top four, top five yesterday.
"The 💯car felt aw♊esome and we've definitely got potential still to come.
"It must be the jet lag programme we're doing - somethin🐎g's got to b﷽e right.
"We've got to understand when you've had goo🌳d days and bad days.
"We'll take it - it's going to be exciting tomorrow, tough against Max and I'm very happy 𓆉to finish P2.”
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