Hamilton managed to hook things up with his second effort, improving by half a second to leave his rivals with a sizeable amount of time to find if they wished to wrestle pole away.
The final driver to take a shot at beating Hamilton’s time was Vettel, who was over two-tenths of a second up in the first sector before more or less matching the Mercedes driver through the middle portion of the lap.

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