00:01Norris and Russell are not improving at the moment.
00:05Norris is the driver at risk.
00:07Russell has an enormous amount of time to find.
00:09Norris is doing enough, he's not improving,
00:11but his previous lap was deleted and it was rapid,
00:13so I think Norris is doing okay.
00:14Russell is in big trouble.
00:17Hulkenberg goes to P8.
00:18We go on board with Lewis Hamilton,
00:20eight times on pole here,
00:21eight times a winner here,
00:23fighting the steering wheel as he comes round
00:25the 14th and final corner,
00:27and he goes up to seventh place.
00:28The driver at risk is now Alex Albon,
00:30it's now Daniel Ricciardo.
00:32Norris finds a time,
00:33good enough for 10th position.
00:35Russell is Albo,
00:36the man on pole one year ago,
00:39cannot find the time,
00:41and it's Tsunoda, Russell, Magnussen and Sargent.
00:44The expressions in the Mercedes garage
00:47tell you all you need to know.
00:49Don't tell me we're out.
00:51Yeah, if I'm P18.
00:57Guys,
00:58I've got to go to any point,
00:59but in all that traffic,
01:00sector three.
01:02And you can see we were on board with Hamilton,
01:04who's the car ahead,
01:05and Lewis was going so slow on the outlap.
01:07Russell was having to back off even more,
01:09and there we go,
01:10he's been passed by Bottas as well.
01:12Alt Nemesis,
01:13and that's why then he probably lost a good couple of tenths,
01:17over two tenths in the first sector,
01:18and he was just caught out.
01:20Here's Pierre Gasly,
01:22who fought his way by the car park at the final turn.
01:25He really shafted George Russell as well there,
01:27with that move up the inside.
01:29Bottas did the same,
01:30up the inside into the final corner,
01:31then Russell's just waiting, holding back.
01:34And George Russell out,
01:3518th position,
01:36Ricciardo's the beneficiary.
01:38That's a stellar job from Daniel Ricciardo.
01:40A fraction ahead of Tsunoda,
01:42a fraction ahead of Alex Albin.
01:45The driver at risk is Carlos Sainz.
01:48Here's the man currently in eighth,
01:49and now heading to second.
01:50That's Lewis Hamilton,
01:52and he knows that feeling around here.
01:53Checkered flag is out.
01:55Sainz needs a lot to step forward,
01:57finds an improvement,
01:58but his teammate is on the brink.
02:00Can Bottas find a way by?
02:02He can!
02:03And Leclerc,
02:04Charles Leclerc finds himself diving down.
02:07Ocon improving.
02:08Leclerc has a chance to fight back.
02:10Gasly will not make it into the final part of qualifying,
02:13what about Esteban Ocon now?
02:15The driver who is 14th,
02:16he won't make it through.
02:18Charles Leclerc needs an improvement.
02:20Paddy Dumoti's teammate,
02:22who has finished,
02:23who is down in 10th position.
02:25Which one's it going to be as we go across the line?
02:27Charles Leclerc knocks out the man who was on the front row one year ago.
02:32Carlos Sainz is out.
02:35How much did we miss it?
02:37Two thousands.
02:38Two thousands only.
02:40Oh, come on.
02:41Sainz, Ocon,
02:43Ricciardo Stroll and Gasly go out.
02:48This is unbelievable speed from the McLaren.
02:51That was nowhere until Austria.
02:54It was on the front row at Silverstone.
02:56Lando Norris has always had this pace behind the wheel.
02:58For so much of his career,
03:00he's been trying to score maybe a strong fifth or a strong fourth.
03:03Today he's in the fight for pole.
03:05Lando Norris is going to go ahead of the Red Bull by two tenths of a second.
03:10It's HĂĽlkenberg who's in third.
03:12Charles Leclerc next up.
03:14Leclerc's going quickly.
03:15Hamilton's going quickly behind as well.
03:17Good first sector from him and the fastest first sector of anyone.
03:20From Verstappen, Leclerc has just lost a bit of time in the corners of the middle sector.
03:25Bottas goes P4.
03:27Charles Leclerc trying to fight his way by.
03:28It's McLaren, then Aston, then Red Bull, then Alfa Romeo, then Haas in the top five.
03:34Verstappen is up but only just in the middle part of the lap.
03:38Leclerc goes into fourth position.
03:40This is going to be tight between Verstappen and Norris.
03:43Yeah, it's all about these final three corners.
03:46Is the Red Bull in the hands of Verstappen quicker than Norris and the McLaren?
03:50Historically this weekend it has been.
03:52He comes across the line and Max Verstappen goes top.
03:55He goes ahead by three tenths of a second.
03:58What a mighty final sector for the World Championship leader.
04:02Now, Lewis Hamilton trying to respond.
04:04Can he get there?
04:05Oh, he's in the ballpark as well.
04:07He's on the front row as it stands.
04:09Verstappen, Hamilton, Norris the top three.
04:13Verstappen finds himself pushing on and he is looking to improve his time.
04:17It wasn't mighty in that first sector but it's the middle part of the lap
04:21where Charles Leclerc is at the moment that is so important.
04:24HĂĽlkenberg has gone over the line. He is P8.
04:27Verstappen's first sector is not magic either.
04:29He's lost half a tenth to himself.
04:32And Leclerc is still right there at the end of the second sector.
04:35The man who has never started on the front row here
04:37having his best middle sector of the weekend so far.
04:40Verstappen going very nicely in the middle part of the lap.
04:44Can he take it out of the grasp of everyone else?
04:46Norris going quickly as well.
04:49Good middle part of the lap for him.
04:51Over the line goes Charles Leclerc.
04:53He moves up to fourth.
04:55Verstappen and Norris doing battle right now.
04:57Yes.
04:58And here we go around the final corner.
05:00What can we see from Verstappen?
05:02Does he take it further away?
05:03He doesn't improve.
05:04He doesn't improve.
05:05And Lando Norris is increments ahead at the moment.
05:09Diastri is the fastest man in the middle sector as well.
05:11The McLaren is rapid.
05:13Here comes Fernando Alonso.
05:15Alonso in fifth place.
05:17Stand by for an almighty shock.
05:19Lando Norris gunning for his first pole in Formula One
05:22since Russia last year.
05:24Hamilton's quick as well.
05:25Norris to the front row.
05:27He can't beat Max Verstappen by eight hundreds.
05:30But Hamilton is flying right now.
05:33And so is Joe Guanyu.
05:35He's fifth for his performance of the season.
05:38Bottas is in seventh.
05:39But will it be Verstappen or will it be Hamilton?
05:42Two corners to go for Lewis Hamilton.
05:44Oh, a little bit of an overstep fighting the rear grip now.
05:47One corner to go.
05:48He's up on Max so far.
05:50It is going to be such fine margins.
05:52He's chasing his ninth pole of this circuit.
05:54Hamilton going for it.
05:55He's done it.
05:56He's done it at the last.
05:58Lewis Hamilton has a ninth pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
06:03And he's beat Max Verstappen by three thousandths of a second.
06:08Get in there, Lewis.
06:09That's pretty well, mate.
06:10Get in there.
06:11Let's go, boys.
06:15Oh, my God.
06:16That's so good.
06:18Thanks so much for the hard work, guys.
06:20Hamilton, the hero in Hungary, once again.
06:25Hamilton versus Verstappen down to turn one is your front row.
06:30Great performance again for Lando Norris.
06:32He brought his teammate to McLaren third and fourth.
06:35That upgrade working brilliantly.
06:37A personal best of the season for Joe Guarni.
06:39And then Leclerc, Bottas, Alonso, Perez and HĂĽlkenberg completing the top ten.
06:45Carlos Sainz was 11th.
06:46He missed out by two thousandths of a second, making it in to Q3.
06:50Then it was Ocon, Ricciardo, Stroll, Gasly, Alvin, Tsunoda, Russell, Magnussen and Sargent.
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