Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton narrowly beat Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen to seal his 4th consecutive pole position. Incidentally, Hamilton finished the session 0.044 seconds ahead of Vettel, the same as Lewis’ racing number.
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Prior to qualifying, Brendon Hartley was forced to sit out after a big off in Practice 3 due to a suspension failure. This led to a lot of chewed nails when remaining Toro Rosso, Pierre Gasly, reported a vibration. Fortunately, the car survived the ordeal and he managed to get into Q2 at least.
Meanwhile, Williams had a nightmarish session as both drivers spun off on separate occasions. Senior driver Lance Stroll ended up in the kitty litter for good. Meanwhile Sergey Sirotkin managed to rally drive his way back to the pits.
Joining Hartley and the 2 Williams were Stoffel Vandoorne (again) and a gutted Carlos Sainz. Q2 was a bit calmer with no real shenanigans with Nico Hulkenberg the lead driver to be eliminated. Joining him were Sergio Perez, Fernando Alonso, Pierre Gasly and Marcus Ericsson.
In the final session of qualifying, Hamilton took top honours ahead of Vettel and Raikkonen respectively. Bottas in the other Mercedes finished ahead of the two Red Bulls of Verstappen and Ricciardo. Behind them, on another stellar performance were the Haas duo of Magnussen and Grosjean followed by Charles LeClerc and Esteban Ocon.
Here is how Twitter reacted to the qualifying session and Lewis Hamilton grabbing his 4th consecutive pole position.
Daniel Ricciardo lost DRS on quickest Q3 lap #F1 #BritishGP motorsportweek.com/news/id/18980?…
#BritishGP any chance we could see or hear the F2 commentary that we paid to see? Didn't come for football......
Congratulations to @LewisHamilton on securing pole for tomorrow’s #BritishGP #f1
Wow. @LewisHamilton, you are the man. Smashed it out there today. Another home pole! I am absolutely buzzing. Crazy emotions right now. So happy ❤️ #TeamLH #BritishGP
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Remember when someone said that Vandoorne is almost as good as Alonso? Me neither. #BritishGP
YES!!! @LewisHamilton has stuck it on pole! What.A.Lap! The home support here never fails to amaze me. Thank you Lewis, you’ve made thousands of people very happy! @MercedesAMGF1 #F1 #BritishGP #TeamLH
Racing’s coming home.... All the best tomorrow @LewisHamilton 🇬🇧 #BritishGP
MiniDrivers - #F1 - #BritishGP - Qualifying #Hamilton #Vettel #Raikkonen losminidrivers.com/2018/07/07/f1-…
P5 it is, the best we could do today in qualifying. The car felt really good in Q3. It will be difficult to challenge the guys ahead tomorrow, so let’s hope for an exciting race #keeppushing #BritishGP
Good job for @ScuderiaFerrari today at #BritishGP. Ottima prestazione della #SF71H oggi a Silverstone. Buen trabajo de #Seb5 y #Kimi7
Its a slim margin, but pole is pole. Congratulations @LewisHamilton @MercedesAMGF1 #F1 #BritishGP
Vettel quick to brush off the neck injury: "It wasn’t the most enjoyable session, but it’s nothing. We did the session so it’s fine. The speed tomorrow is less than in qualy, so it's going to be OK" #F1 #BritishGP
Close battle but Lewis Hamilton takes pole for #BritishGP beating Sebastian Vettel by 0.044s and Kimi Raikkonen by 0.098s. #Haas' Kevin Magnussen took the best of the rest honours: bit.ly/2MTt4Ge #F1 @MercedesAMGF1 @HaasF1Team @F1 @fia
P11 for tomorrow.. A satisfactory result after several problems in the morning. #BritishGP
Twitter I love it! Good to SEE From Morocco that our Hero @Max33Verstappen did a perfect job #BritishGP in Qualy 👍. 🚗💨💨💨💨💨😜
Very good job #Seb5 #Kimi7 #BritishGP #Quali
Part 1 of the historic treble completed @LewisHamilton on pole @SilverstoneUK #BritishGP 🏴✅ https:
Imagine if: England 🏴 beat Sweden 🇸🇪 Hamilton on pole @silverstone And Edmund beats Djokovic @wimbledon 😁 Could be an incredible and historic day for English sport 🏴🏴🏴 #ThreeLions #BritishGP #Wimbledon
Anyone that says Kimi is washed up and needs to retire just needs to look at his performance this weekend #F1 #BritishGP
No worries, you have the race pace... looking forward! And get some painkillers 😂 #Seb5 #Ferrari #BritishGP
Vettel feared he would miss qualifying due to neck issue #F1 #BritishGP motorsport.com/all/article/?i…
Just a few people watching the footie at @SilverstoneUK after an awesome performance from @LewisHamilton to take pole #BritishGP
It was a nightmare Saturday afternoon for Williams at Silverstone 😩 #BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1
🏁 #Q3 #Quali #BritishGP 🇬🇧 So that was a lot of fun! 🙌 Here’s how we line up on the grid for Sunday’s 52-lap #BritishGP: P7 - @KevinMagnussen 🇩🇰 P8 - @RGrosjean 🇫🇷 #HaasF1 #F1
YESSSSSSS!!! #BritishGP pole for @LewisHamilton!!! 💪💪
P2 and P3 for the Scuderia, great fighters #Seb5 and #Kimi7 #ForzaFerrari !! #Quali #BritishGP
RAIKKONEN: "I think we will be good for tomorrow. It will be hot, not easy for the tyres" #BritishGP 🇬🇧 #F1
