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Lewis Hamilton dedicates lap record to late actor Chadwick Boseman
Updated On: 30 August, 2020 09:52 AM IST | Belgium | AFP
Hamilton smashes lap record at Belgian GP; dedicates pole position to late US actor
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Lewis Hamilton gestures in homage to late US actor Chadwick Boseman after securing pole position at Spa, Belgium, on Saturday. Pic/AFP
Lewis Hamilton delivered two successive record breaking qualifying laps to claim his sixth Belgian Grand Prix pole position and a record-increasing 93rd of his career with a flawless demonstration of speed on Saturday. The championship leader clocked a best lap in one minute and 41.252 seconds in the final seconds of a session that he dominated in a personal tribute to the Hollywood film actor Chadwick Boseman, who died on Friday.
His Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas was second, to complete another black arrows front row of the grid, but he was more than half a second adrift of Hamilton's pace. It was Hamilton's fifth pole in seven races this year, a feat he said he had wanted to achieve in memory of Boseman whose life had been an inspiration to Hamilton. "Today was a very, very clean session for me and the end of the lap was getting better and better. We did such a lot of work for this in the background.
"This is a really important pole for me because I woke up to the saddest news of Chadwick passing away... it has been such a heavy year for all of us so it rocked me. I wanted to go out there and drive to perfection because of what he has done for our people and how he has shown young kids what is possible."
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