MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton hailed a truly "epic day" on Saturday after writing his name above Michael Schumacher's as the all-time pole position king in the Formula One record books. On an afternoon of suitably English weather at the historic Italian "Temple of Speed", the "Pista Magica", the Mercedes driver conjured up a lap worthy of the great German rainmaster himself. His lap of one minute 35.554 seconds was more than 1.1 seconds quicker than anybody else at the fastest track on the calendar. "The second to last lap was OK at the beginning, but then I backed out of it, hoping that I'd get one more lap," said the 32-year-old. "It was a brilliant lap, after a session where he was the quickest man throughout, and it was undoubtedly a performance worthy of claiming the all-time pole position record," said the Austrian.

Source: thestar September 02, 2017 18:45 UTC