FORMULA ONE
Lewis Hamilton needs to get back on pole in Spain
Barcelona — Lewis Hamilton is back on top of the world championship as Formula One returns to Europe but the Mercedes driver faces a big battle to stay ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. Vettel is going for his fourth pole position in a row, and at a circuit that should be a proper benchmark of performance after a thrilling and sometimes chaotic first four races of the 2018 season. The German has never started from the top slot in Barcelona, however, whereas Hamilton — with more poles than anyone in the history of the sport (73) — has done so in three of the past four years and won twice. Pole matters because only three of the last 17 races at the Circuit de Catalunya, albeit also three of the last seven, have been won from anywhere else on the grid. Past performance may provide some comfort to Hamilton but he knows that his four-point advantage over fellow four times world champion Vettel owes a lot to luck and that Ferrari have true pace. "There’s ...
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