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* First pole of any kind for Hamilton this season* Ferrari driver 0.011 quicker than F1 leader Antonelli* Russell only fifth on the sprint grid Lewis Hamilton continued his long love affair with Silverstone by seizing pole position for Saturday’s British Grand Prix sprint race as his home crowd hailed their Ferrari hero’s achievement.The seven-times world champion was fastest in sole practice and all three phases of Friday’s qualifying session, finishing the day with a best lap of one minute 28.376 seconds on a sunny afternoon at Silverstone.Mercedes’s Formula One leader Kimi Antonelli was 0.011 slower than Hamilton, who has won a record nine British Grands Prix since his 2007 debut with McLaren.”I love this place and I love this crowd. I can’t express to you how big a dream it is,” said Hamilton after stepping out of his car and saluting the adoring crowd.”The car has felt great today… I’m really grateful to get that pole. I was quick through all the sessions but still, it was only 11 milliseconds, so it was very close to these guys.”WORLD CHAMPION NORRIS TO LINE UP SIXTHRed Bull’s Max Verstappen qualified third with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc fourth and George Russell, Antonelli’s teammate and closest rival, fifth. McLaren’s world champion Lando Norris, last year’s winner, starts sixth after battling brake duct damage.Antonelli is 40 points clear of Russell after eight rounds and the 19-year-old Italian could extend that on Saturday, with eight points going to the winner of the 100-km race.The pole was Hamilton’s first of any sort this season and first also since a sprint qualifying in China last year.The 41-year-old great, who took his first grand prix win for Ferrari in Spain last month, has yet to take a regular pole since July 2023 when he was at Mercedes.Throughout the session Hamilton made the difference, the Briton pushing himself to another level as has been the case so often in the past at a circuit where he has lived some of the great afternoons of his career.”We are ahead of Mercedes and Red Bull and these guys have so much power,” he said. “They have been doing amazing all year but my team just won’t let up and they keep pushing and that is what I am so proud of.”We didn’t expect we would be coming to Silverstone and competing for the front row. We really, really didn’t. But this is an amazing surprise and I am ecstatic.”ANOTHER SETBACK FOR RUSSELLAs Hamilton celebrated, Russell added another setback to a lengthening list and pondered Ferrari’s speed.”I am very surprised (by Ferrari),” said the Briton, winner of two of three previous sprints this year. “They’ve been on the back foot with the PU (power unit) and energy management and here they look the best at the moment.”We’ve always known they have a great chassis but I think some things aren’t quite making sense… obviously Kimi did a great job but Ferrari have had the upper hand all day.”McLaren’s Oscar Piastri qualified seventh with Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar eighth and Racing Bulls pair Liam Lawson and British rookie Arvid Lindblad completing the top 10.Hamilton and Leclerc were one-two after the first phase but Antonelli found some speed in the second to split the two Ferraris, with Norris right on the cusp in 10th place and in danger of going out.”There was a little bit left on the table but it was a decent lap, and unfortunately super close to Lewis,” said Antonelli of the final phase. “But congrats to him, and on our side we’ll focus on tomorrow now.”All the sprints so far this year have been won from pole. Related Story Source link
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Israeli air force launched new airstrikes on various areas in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing three people and injuring several others.According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, an Israeli drone strike targeted the town of Jibchit, killing one person, while another strike targeted the town of Loubiyeh in the Sidon district, killing one person and injuring another.The Agency added that an Israeli drone also struck the town of Ansar, killing a paramedic and wounding four other people.According to the latest official figures, the death toll from the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon has risen to 3,371 people, with an additional 10,129 injured. Related Story Source link
South Korea and Japan will resume their joint maritime search and rescue exercises (SAREX) starting early next month, Seoul’s defense chief said Saturday, calling it a “symbolic” move that reflects improving bilateral relations.South Korea’s Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back announced the plan during bilateral talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi, held on the margins of the Asia Security Summit, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.”The SAREX drills will take place on June 7,” South Korea’s (Yonhap) news agency quoted the defense minister as saying in the opening remarks. “I believe the resumption of the drills after nine years carries a highly symbolic and declaratory meaning.”The drills will be conducted jointly with Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force in international waters southeast of Jeju Island, South Korea’s Navy said in a separate release.The exercise will involve its 4,900-ton ROKS Cheon Ja Bong landing ship, Japan’s 7,250-ton Aegis-equipped Kongo destroyer and a Japanese maritime patrol helicopter, it added.Launched in 1999, the biennial SAREX exercise was designed to train procedures for coordinated responses between naval ships from both countries in the event of maritime incidents in waters near the Korean Peninsula.But the drills have been suspended since the 10th round in 2017, as bilateral ties soured following a dispute over a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft making an unusually low-altitude flyby over a South Korean warship in December 2018.Seoul had decried the plane’s approach as a “menacing” flight, while Tokyo accused the South Korean vessel of having locked its fire-control radar on the plane.The two countries agreed to prevent a recurrence of such a spat during defense ministers’ talks in June 2024 under the previous Yoon Suk Yeol government amid a dramatic warming of bilateral relations. Source link
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