GPI 2017 Russian Grand Prix | Page 179

2017 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX appeared that Mercedes had turned up the wick on their cars to counter the pace of the Ferrari duo. Indeed both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas were quick in the first of the three sectors, but simply had no answer to the Ferraris in the last two sectors. Vettel’s pole for Ferrari is the team’s first since 2015 in Singapore and it will the team’s first front row lock-out since the 2008 French Grand Prix. GPI