Lewis Hamilton surprised pretty much everyone, including himself, by snatching Pole position under Sebastian Vettel's nose. Hamilton had been complaining that his Mercedes car has lost pace going in to this weekend's Hungary Grand Prix, but it hasn't stopped him grabbing his third consecutive Pole position. Vettel looked vexed when he stepped out of his Red Bull to know he only managed second after dominating most of Q3.
Nico Rosberg was fastest in both Q1 and Q2 but could only settle for fourth place behind the impressive Romain Grosjean. Fernando Alonso continued his relatively quiet season, despite sitting second in the standings, and will start fifth ahead of Kimi Raikkonen in the second Lotus. Felipe Massa sits seventh with Daniel Ricciardo continuing to push for Mark Webber's seat next season in eighth. Sergio Perez found some pace for McLaren to sit ninth with Webber not posting a time in Q3 due to a KERS problem and the Australian will sit tenth.
Adrian Sutil was the man to miss out on Q3 in 11th with Nico Hulkenberg just behind him. Jenson Button will be a little disappointed with 13th after seeing Perez's performance and also having been in the top ten at times during Q3. Christian Horner has publicly stated that Jean-Eric Vergne isn't ready for a big seat just yet and the Frenchman looks have vindicated those words by only managing to qualify 14th. There was a slight victory for Williams as both Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas making in to Q2 but will start 15th and 16th respectively.
Esteban Gutierrez continued his struggle in his debut season for Sauber, missing out on Q2 and starting 17th. But the biggest loser of the day was a very disappointed and bewildered Paul Di Resta who has it all to do tomorrow, starting 18th. Caterham beat Marussia at the back of the grid with both Charles Pic and Giedo Van Der Garde out-qualifying Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton.
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