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'Easily quickest' Hamilton says own mistakes cost him pole

Lewis Hamilton has said that he was 'easily quickest' in today's German Grand Prix qualifying session and only missed out on pole due to his own error. Hamilton will line up second on the grid tomorrow in Hockenheim, behind his team mate Nico Rosberg. On his final qualifying run the Englishman locked up a front wheel at the hairpin, and later he insisted that the time lost from the resultant 'flat spot' on his tyre cost him pole position. 'I was 2.26 [tenths] up at that point' he said, 'and I think I lost maybe half a tenth on the exit of that corner. Then I lost those [rest of the gap] later on, [in] half a lap. Think as I came out of Turn 11 it had come down to 0.16...
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