Vettel Set Red Bull on Top in Hungarian GP Qualifying

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Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungaroring, Budapest - Qualifying Result

Just when it looked, Hamilton has done it for the first time this season, but in the dying moments it was Vettel again on Pole. This was the 8th pole for the German out of 11 races taking his pole tally to 23.

Lewis Hamilton after dominating the first two practice sessions was left 1 tenth of a second behind Vettel. But it is a good sign for Mclaren as both their cars shares the first two rows. Hamilton though on the dirty side of the track would be having difficulties at the start.

Felipe Massa pipped his teammate for 4th as Alonso who set the fastest laps in Q1 and Q2 could not do it in Q3.

Fernando admitted his mistake later on as he could not made a better time with super softs on his flying lap and after that it was too late to improve on those fragile tyres.

Mark Webber in the 2nd Red Bull could only went 6th fastest.

Nico Rosberg once again outpaced his teammate and fellow German, Michael Schumacher. Nico qualified 7th ahead of Adrian Sutil for Force India F1.

Adrian Sutil had some hard time in Q2 battling for Q3 with teammate Paul and Mercedes was tough for him.

Sergio Perez, for the first time finished in Q3 and will start at 10th. Sergio Perez also made an appearance into the Q3 in Monaco but due to accident could not able to taste the grid position. Perez did not run in Q3 and saved tyres.

Paul Di Resta who could have made it to the Q3 was left stranded by late improvement from 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher.

Vitaly Petrov in the lead Renault was 12th while Kamui Kobayashi in the 2nd Sauber was 13th ahead of Nick Heidfeld in 2nd Renault.

Rubens Barrichello leads his teammate for 15th while Maldonado qualified 17th.

Jaime Alguersuari was the only Toro Rosso in Q2 qualified 16th.

Sebastien Buemi was the first driver to be outqualified from Q3.

With both the Lotuses taking their places at 19th and 20th, a fight for the 21st position was seen between HRT and Virgin.

Ultimately, Timo Glock with an improved time made it to 21st while both the HRT's followed him. Jerome D'Ambrosio will be starting at last

Sebastien Buemi was handed a 5grid penalty for causing a collision with Nick Heidfeld during German Grand Prix. Thus he will be starting at 23rd.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 21.740sec	1min 21.095sec	1min 19.815sec	14
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 21.636sec	1min 21.105sec	1min 19.978sec	12
3	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 22.038sec	1min 20.578sec	1min 20.024sec	15
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 22.130sec	1min 21.099sec	1min 20.350sec	15
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 21.578sec	1min 20.262sec	1min 20.365sec	15
6	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 22.208sec	1min 20.890sec	1min 20.474sec	16
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 22.996sec	1min 21.243sec	1min 21.098sec	12
8	Adrian Sutil	Force India -Mercedes	1min 22.237 sec	1min 22.000sec	1min 21.445sec	19
9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 22.876sec	1min 21.852sec	1min 21.907sec	17
10	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1min 23.067sec	1min 22.157sec	No Time	16
11	Paul Di Resta	Force India -Mercedes	1min 22.976sec	1min 22.256sec		13
12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 23.070sec	1min 22.284sec		14
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 23.278sec	1min 22.435sec		16
14	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 23.024sec	1min 22.470sec		14
15	Rubens Barrichello	Williams -Cosworth	1min 23.075sec	1min 22.684sec		16
16	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 23.285sec	1min 22.979sec		10
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams -Cosworth	1min 23.847sec			9
23rd	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 24.070sec 5 Place Grid Penalty			9
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1min 24.362sec			8
19	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1min 24.534sec			7
20	Timo Glock	Virgin -Cosworth	1min 26.294sec			10
21	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 26.323sec			11
22	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT - Cosworth	1min 26.479sec			11
24	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin -Cosworth	1min 26.510sec			8

107percent Qualifying Rule Time: 1min 27.288sec.