Saturday, 30 July 2011

Vettel Back On Pole

After two disappointing race weekends, Sebastian Vettel regained his pole position at the Hungaroring this afternoon. But the race doesn't look to be won because the McLaren's are carrying a decent pace along with the two Ferarri's. Hamilton secured second with Button in third, looking to forget his past two retirements. But, for the first time this season, Felipe Massa has finally out-qualified Alonso and will start fourth with Alonso fifth. Webber is the biggest loser so far this weekend and will start in a disappointing sixth position. Adrian Sutil sits eighth in the middle of a Mercedes sandwich, with Rosberg out-qualifying Schumacher yet again. Sergio Perez completed the Q3 line-up but didn't set a time and will subsequently start tenth.

Pastor Maldonado did the same thing in Q2, a session which Alonso carried the most pace. The Venezuelan will therefore start seventeenth. Paul Di Resta just missed out on Q3 due to Schumacher going quicker right at the end, the Scot will start eleventh in tomorrow's race. Kobayashi sits thirteenth in a Renault sandwich, with Petrov out-qualifying Heidfeld. Jaime Alguersuari sits sixteenth in a Williams sandwich, Barrichello is therefore fifteenth.

Q1 saw Buemi follow the usual six out of qualifying, a session which again saw Alonso quickest. But Buemi also received a five place grid penalty after causing Heidfeld to crash and retire last week. The Toro Rosso did qualify in eighteenth and will therefore start twenty-third tomorrow. D'Ambrosio is the only car behind him as both of the Hispania cars out-qualify the Virgin driver. Liuzzi beat Ricciardo into twenty-first with Kovalainen out-qualifying the returning Trulli for the Lotus team.

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