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Bottas takes Russian GP pole as mistake costs Hamilton
Valtteri Bottas picked up his second pole position of the 2018 Formula 1 season after pipping Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to P1 in the final stage of qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix on Saturday in Sochi. At the track where he scored his maiden grand prix victory last year, Bottas managed to edge out Hamilton by one-tenth of a second to score his sixth F1 pole, heading up a front row lock-out for Mercedes in Russia. 5774263478001 CrashTV: Hamilton managed to top both Q1 and Q2, but was slower than Bottas on his first flying lap in Q3 before a mistake at Turn 7 on his final effort meant he had to settle for second place on the grid. Despite Hamilton’s mistake, Ferrari...
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