F1 news - Lewis Hamilton on pole for final race of F1 season

ByReuters

Updated 24/11/2018 at 14:19 GMT

Five-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes front-row lockout with pole position at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday.

Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton competes during the qualifying session at the Yas Marina circuit on November 24, 2018, in Abu Dhabi, ahead of the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix

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The pole was a record-extending 83rd of the Briton's career and 11th of the season, as well as the fifth year in a row that Mercedes have swept the front row at the floodlit Yas Marina circuit.

Hamilton's pole lap of one minute 34.794 seconds was also a track record.

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