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00:00We think there could be one lap before the rain, so suggest Strat 2. Strat 2 could be some rain after you've done one lap.
00:07Wow. So it's still up and out there then.
00:11That is why we have all 20 cars on track, they think.
00:16But it's such a thin layer of cloud, it must be really difficult to read the weather forecast at the moment.
00:22Some quite sensational lap times actually.
00:24And a mid-17 then for Oskar Piastri goes fastest at the moment.
00:28And that stays by a quarter of a second faster than his teammate Lando Norris.
00:32Science has gone purple, purple. He should be going fastest of all at the moment.
00:36We saw that message. The rain is increasing.
00:39So these laps, if that is the case, really could count.
00:42Hamilton's gone fastest in the first sector. Science by two and a half tenths goes quickest overall.
00:47Hamilton's got plenty of time in hand in that bottom five with him.
00:51His teammate George Russell is setting personal best, but not as good as Hamilton.
00:55Russell goes 13th fastest.
00:57Joe Gasly, Bottas and Hülkenberg along with Hamilton in that bottom five.
01:02Nine-time pole sitter here in Budapest.
01:04Hamilton crosses the line, goes quickest, puts Ricciardo down into that bottom five.
01:10In the Ferrari, in the drop zone, in the 16th place.
01:13Remember, this is not... Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
01:15That explains why he went so deep into the corner, hits the barrier.
01:19No wonder they're preparing a new front wing.
01:22He's just locked up the front axle under heavy brake.
01:25He's a bit downhill in there, into that braking zone.
01:27A little bit damp. Front tyre's not warm enough.
01:30Hits the brake pedal, instantly locks them up.
01:32And a little kiss on the barrier there.
01:34Are you okay?
01:35Yeah, I'm not sure the car is.
01:39George Russell, probably somewhere.
01:41This might explain why, through the chicane he goes.
01:44And approaching... Why?
01:46Didn't even get to the part of the track where his teammate had a spin in practice.
01:49And that just got wobbly and he had to back out.
01:51I don't think we can improve like this.
01:54What's your concern? The temperatures or the...
01:56It's Perez! The rain!
01:57It's Perez! He's hit the wall!
01:59If you're concerned about the rain, you can come back.
02:01You can come back to the garage, it's not a problem.
02:03You were talking to me about tyre temps.
02:06That conversation is now irrelevant.
02:08Because Sergio Perez, who has been having a wretched run of form
02:12when it comes to qualifying,
02:14out in Q1 at three of the last five Grand Prix,
02:18has put his Red Bull into the barriers here in Hungary.
02:26He's okay, which is great.
02:28But it is another moment for Sergio Perez,
02:31which he can ill afford in the current climate.
02:35Speculation over his future.
02:37He's not delivering the goods for Red Bull.
02:39And this is what sent him into the barriers.
02:42I think it's Turn 8 where we saw George Russell having the problem.
02:46It is indeed on turn in. It's a bit wet.
02:48And bang!
02:50That's what I was talking about.
02:51Unfortunately, you've got to go for it.
02:52But if it's slightly wetter in one corner, that.
02:55And as soon as you start sliding off that drier line,
03:00you're in double trouble.
03:01And that has switched on the medical light.
03:05He's had enough G-force impact into the barriers
03:08to deploy the medical car.
03:11And a short run to the line.
03:12Lots of green sectors popping up.
03:14Lance Stroll goes fourth.
03:15Pushes Tsunoda into the risk zone.
03:18The bottom five, Bottas, Ricciardo, Magnussen, Joe and Hülkenberg.
03:21Ricciardo goes quickest overall by nearly four one hundredths
03:25to Lewis Hamilton.
03:27Gets a big cheer from the crowd as he does it.
03:29Gasly is now the next driver at risk.
03:31And I think Alpine have made a big mistake
03:33by not being on the track here.
03:34As Albon goes fifth fastest.
03:36Gasly is into the relegation zone.
03:38As Hülkenberg goes sixth.
03:40George Russell is now very much in danger.
03:43Ocon has been pushed into that bottom five.
03:47Joe Guanyu goes 16th fastest.
03:49That saves George Russell.
03:50Here comes Valtteri Bottas.
03:52George Russell is out of qualifying.
03:54Pohl here, two years ago.
03:56And Russell is down in P16.
04:00Now this could be absolute disaster for Perez as well.
04:03Because here comes Magnussen.
04:04And he pushes Perez out.
04:06It's another Q1 exit for him.
04:08And Red Bull and a Mercedes bite the dust
04:11in a dramatic first part of qualifying.
04:13But Russell, was he too early with his lap time?
04:17Once the session got resumed,
04:19Pohl sitter two years ago.
04:21He's out in Q1.
04:31George Russell taking responsibility there.
04:35Around the final corner.
04:37Hamilton then.
04:39Verstappen enjoying the luxury of the extra grip on those new tyres.
04:44Hamilton goes into the mid-116s.
04:46Half a second clear of his fastest time
04:48during the first part of qualifying.
04:50The Dutch fans are sat waiting patiently.
04:53I dare say, when Verstappen crosses the line,
04:56they might just stand.
04:57Here he comes, around the final corner now.
04:59Few of them did.
05:01It's only the first part of Q2.
05:03An FP2 and an FP3.
05:04Lando Norris was the driver that led the way.
05:08He's only fourth fastest though.
05:10Half a second down.
05:11I'm assuming that was used tyres as well?
05:13Absolutely was.
05:14But I think it underlines what a cracking lap that was
05:17from Oscar Piastri.
05:18Doesn't it just?
05:20His second visit to the Hungaro Ring in Formula 1.
05:23Here's Charles Leclerc next.
05:26Fifth fastest for Charles Leclerc.
05:28Nice, neat and tidy inside line around that final turn.
05:32And he does go right in between Piastri and Alonso there.
05:37...in London basically, isn't it?
05:39Or Paris, or anywhere else for that matter.
05:41This is tight.
05:42A miss is as good as a mile.
05:51They're all building gaps, aren't they, to the car in front
05:54so that they don't get disturbed
05:55or have to slow down too much on the track.
05:57So Lewis really working hard here
05:59to improve on that current eighth position
06:03with many more runners behind him.
06:05Lance Stroll, the guy in seventh place.
06:07Currently a couple of tenths up.
06:09Stroll into the top ten of the championship
06:10for the first time since China.
06:12Hamilton goes sixth fastest then.
06:15Is that going to be enough?
06:16A 1.16.3.
06:17That is right on the cusp.
06:18Stroll puts it at 1.16.0.
06:21According to the predictions,
06:22should be enough for a top ten here for Lance Stroll.
06:26Over the line goes Leclerc.
06:28P4 for now.
06:29Yeah, so Hamilton down into ninth place.
06:32Norris has just aced the middle sector
06:34and Alonso in that middle part of the track
06:37did not have a particularly good time of it.
06:40He's currently sixth fastest,
06:41would like to go a little bit quicker.
06:43Crosses the line, stays sixth fastest.
06:45Sunoda, personal best for him
06:47for the first and middle sectors.
06:49Norris goes quickest by over two tenths of a second.
06:52Said that McLaren was a quick thing in the dry
06:54and Norris has certainly proved that.
06:56That was the sort of gap between him and Verstappen
06:58in the first two practice sessions.
07:00Back to the track action.
07:01Yuki Sunoda.
07:03Could he push Lewis Hamilton down to the tenth
07:05and put Alex Albon out of qualifying?
07:07He does just that.
07:08Goes eighth fastest.
07:09Bottas crosses the line, just misses out
07:12by seven one hundredths of a second.
07:14Hülkenberg just misses out by an even closer margin.
07:17Magnussen misses out by a bit more.
07:20Hamilton was absolutely crossing
07:23every single finger that he could
07:25and toe probably in the cockpit.
07:27And if he offered up a little prayer,
07:29it probably worked.
07:30By one one hundredth of a second,
07:32he survives these intercutions.
07:34Put him on the track at the end of the session.
07:37Make that lack of a toe count, Max.
07:40Lack of a toe.
07:41Well, that is what will happen when you go out first.
07:43But Red Bull, it's not the first time they've done that,
07:45is it, Crofty?
07:46They do like to lead the way.
07:47We approach the line and Verstappen is on it.
07:50Here's the time.
07:511.15.555 for Max Verstappen.
07:55Is that going to be the provisional pole
07:57after these runs?
07:58Piastri was about three tenths down
08:00and finishes about three tenths down
08:03behind Verstappen.
08:04Sainz was also down on Max Verstappen's time
08:07through the first two sectors
08:09and ends up about seven tenths adrift.
08:11Lando Norris is just coming through turn three.
08:14Hamilton was a tenth behind Verstappen
08:16through the first sector.
08:18Was pretty close as well in the middle sector
08:20and goes third fastest into the 1.15
08:23to the head of Carlos Sainz,
08:25who's teammate Charles Leclerc
08:26is having all sorts of issues
08:28making his way around the final corner.
08:30That didn't look steady,
08:31but does go third fastest.
08:33We watch Norris coming around the last corner now.
08:36Hole in Spain.
08:37He's had the rain to contend with today.
08:40In the dry,
08:41takes provisional pole
08:42by quite a large margin.
08:45Lando Norris back on provisional pole
08:48and getting a round of applause from the garage.
08:50That could be the lap that counts
08:52if the rain is coming in.
08:54As I said, two front rows in the past.
08:56Roscoe Piastri crosses the line,
08:58goes onto the front row for the third time in his career.
09:01Can he stay there and once again
09:03save this best sector until the very last?
09:06Hamilton crosses the line, improves,
09:08but only into fourth.
09:09Verstappen's lost a little bit of time
09:11in the middle sector,
09:12but he's still up by three thousandths of a second.
09:15Sainz goes fourth fastest,
09:17pushes Hamilton out of the front two rows.
09:20And here's Verstappen overtaking Lando Norris
09:23before Norris can start his final flying lap.
09:25Does he need to, though?
09:27Because here comes Verstappen
09:28and there's a yellow flag out there
09:30and Verstappen's only third fastest.
09:32So Norris will stay on pole
09:34and it's Yuki Tsunoda
09:36that's had an accident out of Turn 5
09:38and just before Turn 6.
09:40Red flag, session over.
09:42Well, they can get out of the pits
09:44and get round and start a lap in two minutes thirteen
09:47because the clock stops.
09:49They can actually get out there.
09:51Do they want to?
09:52Have they got any tyres to do that?
09:54The red flag, you're right,
09:56might have made things a bit interesting here.
09:59And once those tyres go back in the blankets,
10:01which they surely will do,
10:03we'll have a little bit of a delay
10:05before we get going again.
10:06Verstappen, a rebel,
10:07Piastri and McLaren might want to come out again,
10:10but let's see what happens.
10:11So Yuki Tsunoda, this is Turn 5.
10:16Oh, dear.
10:17Oh, that's a big shunt.
10:19He just got wide.
10:21Yeah.
10:27I think he just got a little bit high and wide
10:30and then ran out of tarmac and hit the grass.
10:34Something definitely has happened
10:36because it looks a mess.
10:37But he's wondering if he had some kind of car issue.
10:40But hopefully we'll go back on board with him.
10:43But I think he just got a little bit wide
10:45through the exit of 5
10:46onto some track that's going to be dirty,
10:48maybe even a little bit damp.
10:50And then no way back into the field of play.
10:55Wow.
10:56Oh, it's a lot of damage.
10:57Great to see him out of the car.
11:00I hope he's 100% OK.
11:03On old tyres.
11:05Priority here, Oscar,
11:06is on not getting any sporting infringements or penalties.
11:09That means not excessively impeding cars in the pit exit.
11:14What? But we want you to impede some cars.
11:17That means take your time leaving the pits,
11:20but not to the extent that the stewards might get interested.
11:24We can safely say Lando Norris is going to take pole here
11:27because the rest are not getting anywhere near
11:30to the pole time of a 1.15.2.
11:33But can Daniel Ricciardo improve on that 10th place?
11:36Might be worth a couple more places for him.
11:38Norris pits at the end of that lap.
11:41Ricciardo sets a personal best for the middle sector.
11:44And he's the one that is improving.
11:46Hamilton continues, crosses the line.
11:48It's a 1.16.2.
11:50That is about four tenths of his best time in this session.
11:54Piastri pits behind him.
11:56Ricciardo, I think, will take this corner and cross the line.
12:02And he does go ahead of his teammate Yuki Tsunoda.
12:05So it was worth him coming out.
12:07It wasn't really worth the rest coming out onto the track.
12:11And the good news for him and the good news for McLaren
12:14is that this is Lando Norris' second pole in four races.
12:20His third pole in his Formula 1 career.
12:23He can now add to Spain in 2024,
12:27Sochi in 2021, Hungary in 2024.
12:31There's your pole sitter, Lando Norris.
12:33Well earned.
12:34And a front row lockout for McLaren as well.
12:37They've been threatening to do that this weekend.
12:39And they delivered through a pretty tricky qualifying session
12:42that started an hour and 25 minutes ago.
13:12You
13:42You
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