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Nico Hulkenberg has admitted that his Q3 lap in Bahrain was one of his best qualifying laps he has ever produced, claiming it to be on par with his pole position lap in Brazil, 2010.
Hulkenberg will start tomorrow's race in P7 and leads the midfield pack which has already proven itself to be so close in terms of performance and competitiveness.
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"I'm very satisfied and happy," said Hülkenberg. "It was really the maximum and one of my best qualifying laps I can recall, together with Brazil.
"It's quite a tricky track to get a 100 per cent lap and I've just managed to do that in Q3, so I'm very proud and happy about that – the team has done a great job over yesterday and today."
Hulkenberg qualified in seventh at last weekend's Chinese Grand Prix before it all went wrong during the race, but he is hoping for a much smoother Grand Prix tomorrow to bring home some points.
"One week ago we had a similarly good qualifying, but the next day it went wrong," he said. "We've started pretty well, now we need to make sure that we get some of those Easter points!
"Last Sunday we were really lacking race pace in the dry and the balance didn't feel great, but we've tried a couple of different things, the car is a bit different, so hopefully tomorrow the pace is good."
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