Saturday, July 31, 2010

Qualifying: Unbeatable Bulls take front row

Red Bull translated their earlier pace into a lock-out of the front row in Hungary with Sebastian Vettel taking pole ahead of Mark Webber

The German driver, who was chasing his seventh pole position of the season at the Hungaroring, clocked a 1:18.773 to beat his team-mate to the coveted grid slot by a rather comfortable 0.411s.

There was no stopping the Red Bulls, although for the second grand prix running it was Ferrari who posed the greatest threat. However, it actually wasn't much of a threat as Fernando Alonso, who qualified P3, was 1.214s slower than Vettel.

Felipe Massa, who suffered life-threatening injuries in last year's Hungarian GP qualifying, will line-up fourth on the grid ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

Vitaly Petrov made his mark on the timesheets, beating his team-mate Robert
Kubica in qualifying for the first time this season, while Pedrod de la Rosa and Nico Hulkenberg completed the top ten.

Meanwhile, Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher both failed to make it through to the final qualifying segment. Button could only managed 11th place, 1.761s off Webber's pace in Q2 while Schumacher qualified down in 14th place.

Times:

01. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:18.773
02. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:19.184


03. Alonso Ferrari 1:19.987
04. Massa Ferrari 1:20.331


05. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.499
06. Rosberg Mercedes 1:21.082


07. Petrov Renault 1:21.229
08. Kubica Renault 1:21.328


09. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:21.411
10. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:21.710


11. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.292
12. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:21.331


13. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:21.517
14. Schumacher Mercedes 1:21.630


15. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:21.897
16. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:21.927


17. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:21.998
18. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:22.222


19. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:24.050
20. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:24.120


21. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:24.199
22. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:25.118


23. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:26.391
24. Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 1:26.453

Source: Planet-F1

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