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AWelcome to our coverage for the 2020 Russian Grand Prix from the Sochi Autodrome, famous on the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Lewis Hamilton did what Lewis Hamilton does and claimed the 96th pole position of his career yesterday, It wasn’t easy at all for the champion though, making a mess of laps in both Q1 and Q2 and only crossed the line to complete a lap good enough to get him into Q3, after Sebastian Vettel crashed and pulled. the red flag.
However, in Q3 no one could get close as he beat Max Verstappen by more than half a second and his teammate Valtteri Bottas by nearly 0.7 seconds. That said, Hamilton is not that optimistic of his chances in today’s race. He had to use a set of soft tires to get into Q3 at the end, which means he starts with them, while his two biggest rivals behind him are on the more favorable medium compound tires.
It’s not a good place to start and I think this year will see our cars being more towed and there are more trailers this year than we’ve seen in other years.
I usually expect one of these two [Bottas or Verstappen] come flying at some point. I think I’m going to focus on my race and try to run the fastest race that I can. I’m obviously on the worst tire to start the race, but overall it’s a good tire to make a real start, but it doesn’t have … it has the most degradation, ten times more than any other tire, I think it is. So that’s going to be a fight.
I don’t know if that puts me in two stops, I don’t know, it’s unlikely because the pit lane is too slow, so I’ll have to take care of those tires as much as I can. These guys, if they manage, will walk away, so I’m sitting down tonight to try to figure out if there’s a different kind of race I can do tomorrow to keep my position.
It should, then, be at least a strategically interesting career. It’s not the best track to overtake, or indeed the best track in any shape or form, but we’ve had some decent big prizes here in recent years so there’s hope. As always, I’ll be here for all the preparation, live updates, and reactions.
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