Dennis hails Hamilton's best-ever pole

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Saturday 11th October 2008

Ron Dennis has hailed Lewis Hamilton's pole position for the Japanese GP as the best of his motor racing career.

With title rival Felipe Massa reduced to a lowly fifth on the grid, Hamilton stole a possibly critical advantage by delivering a blistering lap of 1:18.404 to take pole position by 0.240s from Massa's Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.

Beaming with delight att he result, Dennis insisted that Hamilton's race strategy hadn't been compromised and declared: "I think that was the best pole of his life."

Speaking to ITV, the McLaren boss added: "It's a critical time and we've made no sacrifices of our race strategy, so it was a tremendous effort.

"We gave it absolutely everything through the whole of qualifying. He dug deep for that lap time and we're extremely pleased.

"It's a real team high. We'll enjoy the moment, but we're very focused on tomorrow."

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Your Comments

dgrtscorpio

"I can't say I didn't expect Lewis to get pole, what I didn't expect was Massa to be 5th...could the pressure be getting to him...Go Lewis, you deserve to be champion.."

ronniepilgrim35

"sss2512, i agree! every time mclaren or hammy do things right, they come out and claim "the best of my career" but in anyway, nothing ron dennis says can be taken seriously anymore... "