Formula 1

2020 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX GRID

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3 years ago

18/07/2020

Lewis Hamilton was surprised to learn he had taken his 90th career pole position in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Reigning Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix, as his Mercedes team locked out the front row and Racing Point’s Lance Stroll starred as best of the rest in third place.

Mercedes was tipped to face a sterner test at the high-downforce Hungaroring, but its one-lap advantage ballooned instead as its expected main rival Red Bull’s difficult weekend continued.

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Row 1	1. Lewis Hamilton 1’13.447 Mercedes
		2. Valtteri Bottas 1’13.554 Mercedes
Row 2	3. Lance Stroll 1’14.377 Racing Point
		4. Sergio Perez 1’14.545 Racing Point
Row 3	5. Sebastian Vettel 1’14.774 Ferrari
		6. Charles Leclerc 1’14.817 Ferrari
Row 4	7. Max Verstappen 1’14.849 Red Bull
		8. Lando Norris 1’14.966 McLaren
Row 5	9. Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’15.027 McLaren
		10. Pierre Gasly No time Toro Rosso
Row 6	11. Daniel Ricciardo 1’15.661 Renault
		12. George Russell 1’15.698 Williams
Row 7	13. Alexander Albon 1’15.715 Red Bull
		14. Esteban Ocon 1’15.742 Renault
Row 8	15. Nicholas Latifi 1’16.544 Williams
		16. Kevin Magnussen 1’16.152 Haas
Row 9	17. Daniil Kvyat 1’16.204 Toro Rosso
		18. Romain Grosjean 1’16.407 Haas
Row 10	19. Antonio Giovinazzi 1’16.506 Alfa Romeo
		20. Kimi Raikkonen 1’16.614 Alfa Romeo

This meant it was a straight shoot-out between Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas for pole, and Hamilton drew first blood in the decisive third segment as he lapped three tenths of a second quicker than Bottas with a 1m13.613s.

He followed that up with a 1m13.447s, protecting his pole from Bottas’ late improvement that put the Finn just over a tenth slower than his Mercedes team-mate.

Stroll and Sergio Perez made it an all-Racing Point second row, but the Canadian – the quicker of the two for the second time in qualifying this season – was 0.930s off Hamilton.

Along with the two Mercedes drivers, the Racing Points made it into Q3 on mediums and will therefore start Sunday’s race on the harder tyre.

After the two first qualifying sessions of season featured just a single Ferrari SF1000 in their respective final segments, both of them made it to Q3 this time by, with Sebastian Vettel pipping Charles Leclerc to a fifth-place start – Ferrari’s best so far this season.

This was made possible by an off-colour Q3 for Red Bull and Max Verstappen, the Dutchman finishing seventh, 1.402s off pole and with a final lap that was 0.014s short of his previous best.

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