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Vettel: I nearly lost the car on my pole lap
Sebastian Vettel has revealed that he nearly blew it on his sensational pole position lap for the Mexican Grand Prix when he briefly lost control of his car. The German knew he needed to pull something special out of the bag on his final Q3 effort as Max Verstappen had produced a brilliant first lap in the top 10 shootout. But after a purple first sector, Vettel says he had a moment at the tricky second-gear Turn 6 right-hander, which forced him to drop down to first in his bid to recover. Luckily for him, he lost very little time and was able to get going again, finishing his lap to steal pole position from Verstappen by just 0.086 seconds. Speaking about the effort needed to beat Max...
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