Coming to France, Mercedes had the measure of Ferrari across practice and qualifying and secured their sixth front-row lockout of the season during qualifying. Hamilton delivered the fastest lap in the third part of qualifying to secure his third pole position of the season. He set a new track record and beat his teammate by over 2 tenths of a second with the next car a further 0.3 seconds back. Mercedes dominated the race on Sunday. Hamilton took a commanding lights-to-flag victory, crossing the line 18 seconds clear of his Finnish teammate. It was Mercedes' eighth successive victory of 2019 and their sixth one-two finish of the season.