Red Bull Racing dominates Hungarian GP Qualifying 

Pole position for Vettel, P2 for Webber.

Written by David on July 31st, 2010 at 3:22 pmLast Update: August 01st, 2010 at 4:03 pm

Sebastian VettelRed Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has secured his fourth consecutive pole position – the seventh in the season – at Budapest ahead of team-mate Mark Webber, in a qualifying session dominated by the Milton Keynes based team.

The German clocked a best time of 1:18.773, beating by 0.411 seconds the Australian (1:19.184) and by 1.214 Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso (1:19.987).

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa qualified fourth (1:20.331), ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton (1:20.499), Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg (1:21.082), Renault’s Vitaly Petrov (1:21.229), Robert Kubica (1:21.328), Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa (1:21.411) and Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg (1:21.710).

Reigning world champion Jenson Button was eliminated in Q2 and ended up 11th, along with Rubens Barrichello in 12th, Adrian Sutil in 13th, Michael Schumacher in 14th, Sebastien Buemi in 15th and Tonio Liuzzi in 16th.

2010 Hungarian Grand Prix, Qualifying Session results:

Pos. No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps
1 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:20.417 1:19.573 1:18.773 21
2 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:21.132 1:19.531 1:19.184 20
3 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:21.278 1:20.237 1:19.987 23
4 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:21.299 1:20.857 1:20.331 25
5 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.455 1:20.877 1:20.499 25
6 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:21.212 1:20.811 1:21.082 21
7 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:21.558 1:20.797 1:21.229 25
8 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:21.159 1:20.867 1:21.328 22
9 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:21.891 1:21.273 1:21.411 23
10 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:21.598 1:21.275 1:21.710 26
11 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.422 1:21.292 19
12 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:21.478 1:21.331 14
13 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:22.080 1:21.517 18
14 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:21.840 1:21.630 15
15 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:21.982 1:21.897 17
16 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:21.789 1:21.927 17
17 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:21.978 1:21.998 16
18 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:22.222 10
19 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:24.050 10
20 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:24.120 9
21 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:24.199 9
22 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:25.118 10
23 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:26.391 9
24 20 Sakon Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 1:26.453 9

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