Bottas on pole: Now it's time to sink or swim

SILVERSTONE, U.K -- You wouldn't have won a lot for betting on Mercedes returning to pole position at Silverstone, but you might have if you'd tipped Valtteri Bottas to beat Lewis Hamilton to it in front of his home crowd.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc also made qualifying interest on Saturday afternoon but Valtteri Bottas is probably the only man who can still do the same thing to this year's championship fight, so our round-up of the good, the bad and the ugly of qualifying starts with the Finnish driver.

Bottas fights back: This pole position was crucial for Valtteri Bottas. At recent races it seemed like he was the only man who still believed in his championship challenge, but a five-point…