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Hamilton predicting 'tough battle' with Red Bull and Ferrari in Malaysia

After claiming a 70th career pole position for this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton is predicting a difficult battle heading into Sunday's race at Sepang.  Despite struggling for pace all weekend, Hamilton claimed pole from Kimi Raikkonen by only 0.045 seconds while Sebastian Vettel failed to complete a lap following a turbo issue. 'Today we had no idea how it was going to go today, I’m sorry for whatever happened to Sebastian as obviously he was very quick in practice,' said Hamilton. 'Somehow, we turned it around, the engineers did such a great job yesterday, the car felt great for both Valtteri and I, so it’s real surprise to be up here...
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