Lewis Hamilton Shows His Class to Claim Pole Position at 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix

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Published: April 2, 2016

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Come Saturday evening at the Australian Grand Prix, on a day Lewis Hamilton eased to his 50th career pole position despite a rule change intended to put an end to Mercedes' run of front-row lockouts, the final nails were being pounded into the coffin of Formula One's new, elimination-style qualifying format.

Or so we thought, anyway.

As you would expect of a regulation change confirmed less than a month until the start of a new season, the overhaul of qualifying—which gained the "unanimous" approval of the F1 Commission, per the FIA's official website—had failed spectacularly. 



And for once, those within the paddock—notorious for their conflicting priorities and regular acts of selfishness—were in complete unison.

Toto Wolff, the man who has led Mercedes to two consecutive drivers' and constructors' world championships, was too embarrassed to celebrate his team's 37th pole in 39 attempts, simply referring to the hour-long session as "rubbish," per Sky Sports' Matthew Morlidge.

His opposite number at Red Bull, Christian Horner, told the same source F1 "should apologise" for the farce and "address it immediately," while Sebastian Vettel declared it was "definitely the wrong way to go," claiming "plenty of engineers" had "predicted what would happen" and suggesting the sport had ignored the warning signs.



A range of flaws of the elimination-style structure had been exposed at Albert Park, from the indigestible chaos of Q1 to the empty track at the supposed crescendo of qualifying, which gave Vettel—the most intense driver on the grid, remember—the time to change into his jeans and change trainers before qualifying had officially concluded.

Perhaps the most depressing—and certainly the most disturbing—side-effect of the new format, though, was it had taken the emphasis away from a driver's ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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