Formula 1 pole Hamilton, Vettel sinks in 9th position
Hamilton confirms his happy moment taking the Pole in Japan while his "presumed" rival for the world title sinks to ninth place on the grid.
Behind the uncontainable English, Bottas brand mate will complete the first row.
The second will see the Dutch Verstappen flanked by the best Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen. The Ferrari disaster arrives in Q3, which starts dry and ends in the wet, which compromises the qualification of Vettel.
Hamilton updates his curriculum, at least the one concerning the pole, eighth season and 80th career, waiting to update even the statistics of the victories.
The first 10 minutes of Q3 are a disaster, the original sin arises in the first 10 minutes, when the Ferrari drivers go out too early with the intermediate tires, the track seems dry in many sections of the track.
The Ferrari bet is on a dry qualification. Fatal mistake that made us lose a lot of time the moment it started to rain. While the Ferrari drivers were looking for the re-entry to the box for the change of tires Hamilton pushed on the accelerator assuring himself the pole.
Raikkonen managed to limit the damage decisively while Vettel sank into ninth position.
For Ferrari it seems like a dark night. The points of separation from Vettel on Hamilton are 50 and everything suggests that the gap between the two can even widen.
Once again the box and the drivers themselves become protagonists of errors that penalize the team and prejudice the Ferrari race to the world title.
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