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Yet, the rain held off and, after a panicky start, Hamilton improved his time in each of the three qualifying phases. After breaking the 16-year-old track record in practice on Friday broke it again in each of the three qualifying sessions. He finished the session with a time of 1min 22.868sec, 0.130sec ahead of Valtteri Bottas with Max Verstappen 0.328 back.  

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“The track’s completely different,” said Hamilton. He leads Verstappen by two points in the standings and will start nine places behind the Dutchman on Sunday even though the Mercedes has been faster all weekend. “I’ll give it everything,” said Hamilton. “Tomorrow is going to be difficult to move up. Hopefully we can give the fans a good race.” 

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