Budapest: Lewis Hamilton of McLaren secured pole position for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, ahead of Romain Grosjean of Lotus and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.
Hamilton set a pace of 1 minute 20.953 seconds in Saturday's qualifying session, .413 seconds better than Grosjean, who achieved his first front-row start of the season.
World championship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was sixth, behind McLaren's Jenson Button and fifth-place Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen.
Alonso has 154 points after 10 of 20 races, 34 ahead of Mark Webber, who will start only from the 11th place on the grid on Sunday. Vettel is 44 behind the Ferrari driver.
Sunday's race at the Hungaroring leads into a monthlong summer break before the Belgian Grand Prix on September 2.
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Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton[1] MBE (born in Stevenage;[2] 7 January 1985) is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren Mercedes team and is the youngest ever Formula One World Champion. He was named af ...
Romain Grosjean (born April 17, 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a racing driver, who competes under a French racing licence.[1] He was the 2007 Formula Three Euroseries drivers' champion and the inaugural GP2 Asia Series champion. ...
Sebastian Vettel is a German race car driver. He drives for Red Bull Racing having replaced former driver David Coulthard. By taking part in Friday practice for the 2006 Turkish Grand Prix, Vettel became the youngest Formula One driver to driv ...
The first Hungarian Grand Prix (Hungarian: Magyar NagydJIS 794B) was held on June 21, 1936 over a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) track laid out in N駱liget[1], a park in Budapest. The Mercedes-Benz, Auto Union, and Ferrari teams all sent three cars and th ...
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