Red Bull Racing dominates Hungarian GP Qualifying
Pole position for Vettel, P2 for Webber.
Red 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 |
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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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