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HUNGARY GP, qualifications: MERCEDESA first class, pole position HAMILTON

Lewis Hamilton will start the race for the Hungarian Grand Prix from the first starting position, and his teammate Bottas will keep him company in the first starting line.

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Also qualifications for the Hungarian GP at Hungaroring they started in dry weather, despite that weather forecast a few hours before that it had predicted rain. The air temperature was slightly lower than yesterday (29 degrees Celsius) and the asphalt surface temperature was still above 60 degrees Celsius.

Even before the start of qualifying, the mechanics were frantically circling around the race car Mick Schumacher, who in the end failed to compete in the first part of the qualifications and will start the race tomorrow from the last starting place.

Q1 - End of Russell series, Schumacher without performance

In the first attempt, he put together the fastest lap Valtteri Bottas, who later pushed him off the pedestal Max Verstappen, who set the fastest time of the first part of the qualifications with a time of 1: 16.214 and thus overtook by a good two tenths Lewis Hamilton in second place.

As always, it is this time as well short path on the outskirts of Budapest it provided for rather dense traffic, which it could pay with a fine Carlos Sainz, as his engineers sent him to the track just at the time when one of the AlphaTauri race cars.

At the end of the first part, we saw the end Russell series, since he is a driver Williams after two consecutive rankings among the top ten now stuck in the first part of qualifying for the first time this year. Along with the British racer, they also dropped out tsunoda, Latifs in mazepin, while Mick Schumacher he did not perform at all in the qualifiers.

Q2 - Sainz ended up in a safety fence, Ricciardo dropped out again

The second part of the qualifiers most of the favorites started at medium tread tires, which should give a better start to the race and longer first stint in the race. To make it all together could be very useful for Mercedes, he showed Hamilton, who with a time of 1: 16.5 was only three tenths behind the time he set in Q1 with soft tires. It's a good six minutes before the expiration Carlos Sainz lost control of his car in the last turn in front of the start-finish plane and flew into the safety fence and took care of red flag. Overall, racers seem to have on this year Hungaroring quite a few problems catching the backs of their race cars.

After the break, the fastest lap of the second part of the qualifications put on the soft tires Max Verstappen, which, however, will start on mid-range tires as well as its main competitor Lewis Hamilton. After the second part of the qualifiers, they said goodbye Ricciardo, Stroll, Räikkönen, Giovinazzi and already mentioned Sainz, who concretely broke his own in the collision Ferrari. With that, a big gap was once again gaping between the two McLaren racers as it is Lando Norris Q2 finished in second place.

Q3 - Games and pole position for Lewis Hamilton

He was the first to set the best time in the third part of the qualifiers Esteban Ocon, who, however, soon had to withdraw first Verstappen, and so on Bottas in Hamilton. The difference between first and third place after the first attempt is more than half a second, Verstappen however, after the attempt he complained of insufficient grip. He was the last to drive his fast lap Sebastian Vettel, who came in eighth place, pred Alonso and for Gasly.

Lewis Hamilton won the pole position and will start tomorrow with a set of mid-range tires. Its main competitor Verstappen will start from third place on soft tires.

Also in the second Max Verstappn failed to break into the first starting row, leaving at Red Bullu they probably had a lot to say over Mercedes ’tactics, which cost the last attempt Sergio Pereza, because it is because of Hamilton "Cincanja" he missed it. In the end, they both stayed in the front row Mercedesa, both of them will start after them Red Bull Racing, and in the third row gasly in Norris.

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