World of sport
Lewis Hamilton was denied pole position for the British Grand Prix by just six thousandths of a second yesterday.
Valtteri Bottas will start from the front at Silverstone despite Hamilton’s last-gasp effort to usurp his Mercedes team-mate.
Mercedes locked out the front row for today’s race with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc third ahead of Red Bull driver Max Verstappen. Pierre Gasly starts fifth with Sebastian Vettel a disappointing sixth.
Hamilton was bidding to secure his fifth consecutive pole at the Northamptonshire circuit, but the world champion made a critical error on his first run in the shootout for pole.
The Briton wobbled through Brooklands, temporarily losing control of his Mercedes, to leave him well behind Bottas ahead of the final runs.
Hamilton attempted to make amends for his error, but despite improving on his time it would prove no match for the Finn – Bottas ending Hamilton’s streak of four poles.
“It wasn’t good enough,” said Hamilton in front of a flat British crowd. “We worked hard but it got away from us.
“I had that mistake on the first lap and the second one wasn’t that great.
“Tomorrow is a long race, but we have got a great crowd here, so hopefully I can do something.”
Leclerc ran the Mercedes drivers close, finishing one tenth shy of Bottas at an overcast and blustery Silverstone, but his Ferrari team-mate Vettel struggled.
The German, already 76 points behind Hamilton in the championship, was seven-tenths off the pace.
British teenager Lando Norris will line up from eighth in his maiden home event following another encouraging weekend. His Mclaren team-mate Carlos Sainz qualified 13th, three tenths off Norris.
England progressed to the second preliminary round at the Netball World Cup, thanks to a 70-34 win over Scotland yesterday.
The Scots failed to match the quality of the Roses, whose 36-yearold shooter Rachel Dunn scored 49 goals from 52 shots.
Commonwealth champions England have two wins from two and will secure top spot in Group D if they beat Samoa today.
A win for Scotland against Uganda will also see them progress.
The Orange Tag Emerger comes from a nice wee fly-tying website called ‘Tiedathame’, that’s well worth a look for lots of interesting patterns.
It is tied on a size-12 Kamasan B110 grub hook using black UTC 70 thread. A tag of orange Neon Flash and the body is the tying thread, ribbed with grey ostrich quill.
The wing buds are Pearl Mylar and the head hackle is light-brown hen.
■ The Black Loch Fishery, near Falkirk, had a terrific week of sport with the trout being well and truly ‘on’ taking Dries, Buzzers, Blobs and Nymph on a variety of lines.
The two Reedy Bays and School Bay were the hot spots. Top catches came from Craig Cowan, who had nine on Dries fishing from his float tube, David Frater (nine C&R on Dries), Ian Dobbie (nine C&R on Dries). The Strathy FF took 23 for 49lb and the Post Office AC had 17 C&R mainly on Beetles.