It's still all to play for from P1 and P5 on the grid, so we'll give it our all and see how it plays out." Tomorrow looks set to be an interesting race, it appears to be quite close between the top teams in terms of race pace. Lewis had a trickier time, it just wasn't his qualifying session today, so we'll take a look at what happened. Valtteri had a strong qualifying and put in a brilliant first lap in Q3 which was good enough to secure pole. It's been a little while since we've been on pole and it's a very good feeling to start from the front again, we've all missed it. "That was an exciting qualifying session - it was very tight, with a few cars within just a few tenths. Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport ![]() He'll live to fight another day tomorrow, we had good pace in the car in the long runs on Friday and we hope that we can make that count tomorrow in the race." But I think he would be the first to say that was a bit of a messy couple of laps in Q3. It wasn't such a happy session for Lewis and a bit of a surprise because he was very strong on the first two sessions. "This is our first pole since before the summer break and what a welcome pole it was - incredibly tight, incredibly exciting and fantastic to have Valtteri put our car on the top step today. It's going to be a tough challenge trying to get past two Ferraris, a Red Bull and Valtteri, but I'll continue to work at it and hope that I can do a better job tomorrow." Now I'll have to try and figure out what went wrong today and how I can get myself to the front. Valtteri did a great job, so congratulations to him. Clearly the car had the capability to be on the front row, I just couldn't put the lap together. "This must be one of the worst qualifying sessions I've had in a long time. Our long runs looked good yesterday, so hopefully we can get a strong result in the race." It's always an advantage to start from the front now it's up to me to try and maintain the lead at the start tomorrow. I'm very pleased with my first lap in Q3 it wasn't quite perfect, but good enough to put us on pole. I knew going into qualifying that the car had the potential to fight at the front, I just had to get a good lap together. I was struggling with the car yesterday, but we've made a number of changes overnight and today the car felt much better. "This is very satisfying - it's been a while since we've last been on pole, so this is a great feeling. He'll have his work cut out at the start to stay out of trouble in the middle of the pack. Hamilton aborted his lap, winding up rather adrift down in P5. ![]() By the end of the segment, the track seemed to be lacking grip and with next to no improvements, Bottas was assured of a fifth pole of the season and a first in Austin. Bottas absolutely nailed his first flying lap but Hamilton couldn't match him and wound up fifth. ![]() They made it through Q2 on the medium compound tyre, and rolled into Q3 looking in good shape. Mercedes picked up the pace on Saturday, and certainly looked to be in the mix for pole.
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