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Shocked Hamilton 'being challenged in different way'

Lewis Hamilton insisted he was genuinely "shocked" to have overcome the Red Bulls for his first pole position of the 2021 season at the Emilia-Romagna GP - and admitted F1's fierce new inter-team fight was "challenging me in a different way". The seven-time world champion celebrated his 99th F1 pole at Imola on Saturday but said he had not been expecting to top qualifying, particularly after final practice earlier on Saturday when Max Verstappen outpaced him by six tenths of a second. "For us it's a real surprise," said Hamilton to Sky Sports F1. "You heard it on the radio for us. We do have a small deficit in performance, we felt at least. We saw it in...
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