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Lewis Hamilton on pole for Malaysia GP

SEPANG — Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton blitzed his rivals in qualifying on Saturday (Oct 3) to secure pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates pole position next to Mercedes' Nico Rosberg of Germany and Red Bull's Max Verstappen of the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates pole position next to Mercedes' Nico Rosberg of Germany and Red Bull's Max Verstappen of the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters

SEPANG — Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton blitzed his rivals in qualifying on Saturday (Oct 3) to secure pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The reigning world champion clocked the fastest lap ever of the 5.543km Sepang circuit in 1min 32.850sec to finish more than four-tenths of second ahead of Mercedes rival and championship leader Nico Rosberg.

Third on the grid is birthday boy Max Verstappen, who celebrated turning 19 on Friday before clocking 1:33.420 a day later, less than 0.2sec off the pace of Rosberg.

Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo completes the second row of the grid for Sunday’s race.

Here is the starting grid for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix following the final qualifying sessions on Saturday:

Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)

Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull)

Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari)

Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari)

Sergio Perez (Force India)

Nico Hulkenberg (Force India)

Jenson Button (McLaren)

Felipe Massa (Williams)

Valtteri Bottas (Williams)

Romain Grosjean (Haas)

Esteban Gutierrez (Haas)

Kevin Magnussen (Renault)

Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso)

Carlos Sainz Jr (Toro Rosso)

Marcus Ericsson (Sauber)

Felipe Nasr (Sauber)

Jolyon Palmer (Renault)

Esteban Ocon (Manor)

Pascal Wehrlein (Manor)

Fernando Alonso (McLaren)

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