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Hamilton 'proud' to put an end to pole drought

It's been an unusually long dry spell in Lewis Hamilton's normally bullet-proof record of picking up pole positions. But the six-time world champion used the final qualifying session of the season to put an emphatic end to that. Hamilton's pole time of 1:34.779s was a new track record for the Yas Marina Circuit and gave him his fifth pole of the season. But it's his first since Germany back in July, resulting in a gap of nine races without taking the top spot in 2019. The Mercedes driver admitted that it felt good to back back on pole again after such an unusually long gap without success on Saturday - and that it hadn't been easy to pull it off this weekend. Hamilton and Bottas top final...
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