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Hamilton bemoans "poor" and "messy" qualifying for missing out on 100th F1 pole

Sam Hall Saturday 1 May 2021 16:50 - Updated: 16:52 Lewis Hamilton described his Portuguese Grand Prix qualifying as "poor" and "messy" as he missed out on the opportunity to score his 100th F1 pole position. Hamilton entered the Saturday session at Portimão hoping to become the first driver in F1 history to score a century of poles but was denied by just 0.007secs to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas. Article continues under video Despite setting what was the fastest qualifying time overall with a lap of one minute 17.968secs in Q2, Hamilton failed to find any improvement in the top-10 shoot-out as Bottas' lap of 1:18.348 proved enough. "It was a difficult...
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