Lewis Hamilton: 'I could have gone faster in qualifying'

Lewis Hamilton has said that he is unworried by the narrow gap to teammate Nico Rosberg in the Chinese Grand Prix, suggesting that he could have secured pole position in Shanghai by a greater margin.

Hamilton finished four hundredths of a second ahead of his likely 2015 title rival, but the world champion has claimed that he missed out a faster lap in Q3.

He told reporters: "The first lap was very good, very happy with it.

"You always naturally feel you can improve a little bit on the next, but on the next lap I didn't extract the most from the tyres. I could have done better and the gap (two-to-three tenths) would have been the same."

Malaysian Grand Prix winner Sebastian Vettel will start from third on the grid after finishing almost a second behind the Briton in qualifying.

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Chris O'Keefe