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Twitter Left Shellshocked After Lance Stroll Storms to Sensational Turkish Grand Prix Pole

Published 11/14/2020, 9:24 AM EST

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Turkish Grand Prix blessed the Formula 1 community with an exciting and extraordinary qualifying session. The weather was out of control and the cars were skidding out of the tracks.

As the session resumed, Max Verstappen was leading throughout. However, Racing Point decided to go on the intermediate tire and surprised everyone.

Lance Stroll clinched his first-ever pole position in his last qualifying lap. He is only the third Canadian ever to qualify at pole position, and the Twitter community can not contain the excitement of an unfamiliar grid for tomorrow’s race.

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Twitter Celebrates with Lance Stroll

Matthew Gallagher could not keep his cool as Stroll claimed his first-ever pole. He took to the social media website and well, we were all screaming with him.

Speechless, that’s right. Lance Stroll beat Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, and Max Verstappen to stand at pole position. Much like the Racing Point team, we were all left speechless at the Canadian’s mega lap.

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Everyone is excited about the race today. We also hope that Lance Stroll takes the advantage and converts it into a race win. These could very well be the first glimpses of a future world champion.

Mercedes were nowhere with their pace during the session. However, the team was the first to congratulate Racing Point and Lance Stroll at their exceptional outing today.

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Lance Stroll drove the best lap of his life under the toughest conditions of the season. The pole-sitter was surrounded by everyone congratulating him on his first pole position.

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Stroll was followed by Max Verstappen as Perez qualified at P3 giving Racing Point their best-ever start. Racing Point have their best start of the season in tomorrow’s race. However, splitting the Racing Point is the Dutch who will certainly go for the win. The weather forecast is similar, so don’t forget to tune in with an extra tub of popcorn tomorrow.

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Ayush Manjunath is a Formula 1 author for EssentiallySports with more than 500 articles to his name. A Law graduate and a current Sports Management student, Ayush also has a certificate from UCLA on Sports, Media and Entertainment Management. He has an undying love for motorsports and lives to see Max Verstappen, George Russell, Charles Leclerc, and Lando Norris battle for the championship one day!
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