Lewis Hamilton Beats Nico Rosberg in Nervy 2014 Singapore Grand Prix Qualifying

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Published: September 20, 2014

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Formula One's controversial new radio restrictions, designed to prevent teams and drivers from having a mid-race natter, have partially come into effect for this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.

Yet they did not stop Nico Rosberg from venting his disappointment at being beaten by Lewis Hamilton, his Mercedes teammate, to pole position at the Marina Bay track.

"Damn it," was all that the German, according to the FIA television feed, could utter upon learning of his defeat in what must be one of the few team radio messages that remain permitted by the sport's governing body—although one could not have blamed Rosberg if a bleep machine had been required.



Moments such as Hamilton's last-gasp lap time under the floodlights, with just six grands prix of the 2014 season remaining, are the type of instances which can decide the destiny of a world championship.

Trivial circumstances such as a driver starting on the dirty, rather than the clean, side of the starting grid suddenly grow in importance as a campaign approaches its climax, as races run out and as the amount of points to play for continues to shrink.

And Rosberg, who is currently nursing a 22-point lead over Hamilton in the drivers' standings, would have been only further enraged by the margin of the deficit to his Silver Arrows teammate.



Not the usual tenths of a second. Not the rare hundredths of a second. But thousandths.

Seven thousandths, in fact, according to the official Formula One website, which even in a sport as fast-paced as F1—in which the tiniest of margins can make the biggest of differences—is nothing.

The effects of the frustration of being so near and yet so far to a return to pole position after being convincingly outperformed by Hamilton over the Italian Grand Prix weekend, where Rosberg made an uncharacteristic error, remains to be seen.

Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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