Lewis Hamilton carried his practice pace into qualifying to claim pole position for tomorrow’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
The McLaren man’s time of 1.20.953 was almost half-a-second quicker than his closest rival, Romain Grosjean, who secured his highest ever starting position in the Lotus.
Sebastian Vettel claimed third, with Jenson Button joining him on the second row of the grid, displaying the remarkable turnaround McLaren have made to the MP4-27.
Scorching temperatures greeted the drivers for Saturday’s qualifying session, allowing all of the teams to use the knowledge built up during the practice sessions.
There were no great surprises in Q1, as the usual suspects dropped out. Sebastian Vettel just scraped through in 16th place, almost losing out to Heikki Kovalainen and Daniel Ricciardo.
The major casualty of Q2 came in the form of Mark Webber, who will have to start tomorrow’s race from 11th on the grid. Williams’ Bruno Senna registered a late time to knock out the Australian who has been struggling in the Red Bull RB8 for most of the weekend.
Along with Webber, both Sauber and Mercedes drivers lost out as well as Paul di Resta and Jean-Eric Vergne, who would have been happy just to make it out of Q1.
Lewis Hamilton continued his fine form in Q3 to claim a deserved pole for tomorrow’s race, beating his nearest rival, Grosjean, by a convincing margin. Despite showing great pace in both Q1 and Q2, Senna could only manage ninth, just ahead of Nico Hulkenberg in tenth.
Vettel and Button will occupy the second row for tomorrow’s race, ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa and Pastor Maldonado.
Attention now switches the main event tomorrow afternoon, and after displaying such great pace it’s hard to look past Lewis Hamilton for the win.
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