00:00Final corner, they've also been struggling on the way in.
00:02The surfers are breaking up a bit towards the inside,
00:05but they look like they've fixed that.
00:07Stay left, shortest run to the line.
00:09It's a 21-5, and we're looking at times much, much faster than that today.
00:15Well, already Lance Stroll goes 7 tenths faster than Alex Albon,
00:18and Stroll's teammate Fernando Alonso is going quicker still
00:21through the first two sectors,
00:23and a 120.6 from him in the Aston Martin.
00:27Ferrari doing something very different to Mercedes.
00:29Hamilton crosses the line, and it is the quickest time so far of a 1.18.7.
00:34So let's see how quick that is compared to the rest.
00:38And while the Aston Martin's lapping in the mid-120s,
00:42this probably is a very good move by Ferrari.
00:44Pit lane in to cheat, get the car straight, help your traction.
00:49A lot of understeer carrying him slightly wide through the final corner,
00:53but still goes fast as it is on the soft compound tyre, of course.
00:58Yeah, there should be a decent gap between the soft and the medium.
01:01There isn't between the...
01:03Flicks across, and Max had a lot of understeer here.
01:06Antonelli looks like he's got more command of the front axle of that Mercedes.
01:11Hopefully he stayed within track limits,
01:13but he's lost time in the final sector.
01:16George Russell is, unless he's got a great final sector up his sleeve,
01:21and that didn't look brilliant through the final corner,
01:24yeah, he's not going to be anywhere near the top three.
01:26He's not.
01:26Fifth fastest only for George Russell.
01:28On board then with Lando Norris,
01:30hustling his car and seemingly very happy to do so through the final turn.
01:35goes fastest by four-tenths of a second.
01:38Turn four, where he's gone off the track.
01:41Don't need a replay, really, to sort that one out.
01:45That's a long way off.
01:48In fact, he's gone far enough to not scrape the plank too much as well.
01:52George Russell, another go on these tyres.
01:54Goes from seventh up to sixth.
01:57Not surprised.
01:58He was wrestling it, wasn't he?
02:00All the way through the final corner there for George.
02:03Here comes Carlos Sainz to try and get out of the bottom six.
02:06Does only just, though.
02:07The right side of the line for the time being.
02:11Here's his teammate Alex Albon to try and send him back down into that bottom six,
02:14and he hasn't.
02:15Alex Albon could find himself out here.
02:18He missed Q2 by seven-thousandths of a second in Spa
02:21as Leclerc goes eighth fastest.
02:23He's been out-qualified by Sainz in the last four races, Alex Albon.
02:27Not looking good for him here as Bortoleto
02:29puts Sainz back in the bottom six with his time-lapse.
02:33And if that counts, will it be good enough for P9?
02:35Ocon moves ahead a little bit.
02:37Oli Behrman goes up to P14.
02:40The projected cutoff time of 120.1.
02:42Right, Valtteri Bottas, what have you got for us?
02:45Once upon a time, you were guaranteed Q3 here.
02:48And you're down in 21st at the moment.
02:50It looks like Aston Martin have an upgrade that is better for them now than the Cadillacs.
02:55Perez, slowest of all the qualifiers.
02:57Alonso goes P14, pushes Gasly into that bottom six.
03:02Two Alpines now that can do some damage back there.
03:06They're both on personal best first and second sectors.
03:10Red lights are on.
03:11That's the end of the session.
03:13Gasly does indeed go 13.
03:14And that's pushed Oli Behrman right onto the cusp.
03:18I think Alonso's going to be safe here.
03:19So, Franco Colopinto pushes Oli Behrman down into that bottom six.
03:27That's terrible.
03:28Why the balance is changing so much?
03:34Alex, it was a good lap considering the car is all over the place.
03:37That's on us.
03:39Through turn 13.
03:43And he likes that tight inside line there of 14.
03:47See what this comes up as.
03:48So, he's about a half a second slower than he was in Q1.
03:52As he heads now into the final turn.
03:56Comes up pretty quickly and not wrestling it through there as much as some.
03:59Certainly not.
04:01Crosses the line.
04:01Max Verstappen with the fastest time.
04:031.18.
04:04So, Norris subsequently becoming a pole sitter too.
04:08Has gone quicker than Max through the first sector.
04:11And Isaac Hadjar has that sinking, spinning feeling down at turn 11.
04:16Getting drawn into the gravel.
04:18Spinning around 180 degrees.
04:20Ruining his lap.
04:22And necessitating a trip back to the pits there.
04:26Yeah.
04:26I think the good news for Charles Leclerc and for Lando Norris.
04:30Who's on a used set of tyres.
04:32Is that the yellow flag had stopped waving by the time they got down to that corner.
04:35Leclerc goes second fastest.
04:37Norris crosses the line now.
04:39Three tenths off Max Verstappen for the top ten shootout.
04:43They think they'll be in there no problem.
04:45Arvid Lindblad goes third fastest.
04:48And Alan Permain saying they were saving tyres during Q1 for him too.
04:52George Russell got caught up in those double waved yellows.
05:25That were flying when Isaac Hadjar went off the track.
05:26Lewis Hamilton by a couple of tenths of a second.
05:29I've got no grip on him.
05:31Like, I don't know.
05:33We're doing something wrong with tyres.
05:35I have zero grip.
05:36You can see that he really is wrestling and fighting away.
05:40This is the Isaac Hadjar moment down at turn 12.
05:44Yep, so he understared front slid into the gravel.
05:47And then, of course, the back has no grip when it gets there.
05:50Gave it a little bit of throttle.
05:51Okay, but come on.
05:52Someone is always the same.
05:56Is he talking about traffic?
05:58Yeah, I don't think it was traffic, though, was it?
06:00When that upgraded engine for Honda comes through in Zandvoort,
06:05then they'll think more about the fringes of the top ten.
06:07But that, to get Alonso into the top ten,
06:10that is a sensational lap from him.
06:13A 1.19.8.
06:15Has he got enough grip in those tyres?
06:17Look very neat as well.
06:18Through the final corner, does go quickest
06:20by about six one-hundredths of a second from Lewis Hamilton.
06:24Got to say, as that lap went on,
06:26it just looked better and better from the young Frenchman.
06:28Looks like they might have saved a set for the race to come.
06:30Bortoleto goes ninth fastest,
06:32pushes Fernando Alonso out of this qualifying session.
06:36P11 currently.
06:37Hülkenberg next to cross the line,
06:39goes seventh fastest.
06:40That pushes Liam Lawson out of the top ten.
06:43Lawson crosses the line.
06:45He then goes back into the top ten again.
06:47And Charles Leclerc finds himself right on the cusp at the moment
06:51on a flying lap.
06:52Norris, 1.17.4.
06:54Great lap from him.
06:56Four tenths clear of Isaac Hadjar.
06:58Antonelli does get that lap in,
07:00goes sixth fastest.
07:02Pushes Leclerc into the bottom six.
07:04Lindblad now goes into the top six.
07:07Leclerc and Bortoleto are now finding themselves
07:10outside of the top ten.
07:12Ocon can't make it into the top ten.
07:14Only Leclerc can.
07:15Bortoleto just misses out.
07:16Eleventh fastest for him.
07:17Colopinto misses out too.
07:19Here comes Charles Leclerc.
07:21Pole position for him last year.
07:23And right at the end of Q2,
07:25he forces his way back into the top ten
07:27at the expense of Liam Lawson.
07:30First two sectors.
07:31Verstappen to the line.
07:321.17.7.
07:33He improves by half a second
07:35on his best time in Q2.
07:37Can Oscar Piastri front row here
07:39the last two years go quicker?
07:41Yes, he can.
07:42By four one hundredths of a second,
07:44Piastri's pulled one out of the bag
07:46to be ahead of the Red Bull.
07:48Lando Norris giving it maximum hustle
07:50and by over three tenths of a second,
07:53getting provisional pole.
07:55But Lewis Hamilton now fastest in the first sector
07:57as Isaac Hadjar goes into the top four.
08:00And a good drive off the exit.
08:02And he goes fastest.
08:03Provisional pole to Lewis Hamilton
08:05by a tenth of a second.
08:07His teammate Charles Leclerc
08:08was a couple of tenths down
08:10and his only P3, Kimi Antonelli,
08:13was also a couple of tenths down.
08:15Six poles so far this season.
08:17P4 is the best he can manage
08:19for the time being.
08:21Now here comes George Russell.
08:23Can he get closer to his teammate,
08:24closer to the front?
08:25No, he's half a second down.
08:27It's George Russell
08:28and only seven fastest.
08:30We are not seeing improvements
08:32out on the track.
08:33Hamilton crosses the line.
08:35It's a 1.17.2
08:36from his first flying lap in Q3
08:38that they are all still chasing.
08:40And Antonelli's the only one who's improving.
08:42Leclerc crosses the line.
08:44P3's the best that he can do.
08:46Verstappen has spun.
08:47And that's a yellow flag.
08:49Antonelli is going to have to lift off.
08:51Russell might have to lift off too.
08:53At the final corner,
08:54Verstappen loses it.
08:56Antonelli stays on the second row.
08:58George Russell's not improving here.
09:00Got caught out with yellow flags
09:02at the wrong time.
09:03Had to lift.
09:05P7's the best he can do.
09:07But Norris still out there
09:09and able to improve
09:10and he has done
09:11in the first sector.
09:13He's got the grip
09:14around this final corner.
09:16At the moment,
09:17a tentative grip for Lewis Hamilton
09:18on that pole position.
09:20Norris has snatched it
09:21by 12,000th of a second.
09:23Lando Norris takes pole
09:26here in Budapest.
09:29And they are delighted
09:31about that.
09:32They really are.
09:33Oscar Piastri's had to back out
09:35P5 for him.
09:37Lewis Hamilton came
09:38within 13 milliseconds
09:41of becoming the oldest pole sitter
09:43in 44 years.
09:46He's on the front row
09:46alongside Lando Norris.
09:48The second yellow flag
09:49was for George Russell
09:50stopping at turn one.
09:52We saw him adjusting
09:53something on the steering wheel.
09:55He had to give up
09:55through the last corner anyway.
09:58Russell starts seventh.
10:00At the moment,
10:01no penalties incoming
10:02that we know about
10:03or expect with power units
10:05or what have you.
10:06But Lando Norris then
10:08delivered when he had to.
10:10Stick for him.
10:11We're about to see.
10:12He's thrown it in
10:14and he had to correct
10:15a slide on the way in.
10:17And he's sort of got
10:17a bit of an anti-lock
10:18going on there.
10:20Yeah!
10:22Gorgeous.
10:23Go.
10:24Well done, boys and girls.
10:25Thank you very much.
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