Lewis Hamilton takes dominant pole in Budapest
Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for tomorrow’s 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, beating team-mate Nico Rosberg by more than half a second.
Hamilton stamped his mark all over practice and qualifying in Budapest, looking unbeatable in qualifying as he took pole with a lap that was 0.575 seconds than Nico Rosberg could manage.
Behind the Mercedes, Sebastian Vettel took third spot from Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, with the second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen taking fifth spot ahead of Bottas in the Williams, Kvyat in the Read Bull, Massa in the second Williams, Verstappen in the Toro Rosso and Lotus’s Romain Grosjean taking tenth place.
But, as we’ve become used to this year, it was another miserable day for McLaren.
Jenson Button failed by a tenth to make Q2 after his car failed to access electric power on the straight, and although Alonso scraped in to Q2, his car switched itself off on his first lap.
But instead of jumping out and walking back to the pits, Alonso proceeded to push his car pit-ward – helped, eventually, by marshals – in the vain hope McLaren could press ctrl-alt-del and spring their woeful car back in to life. But it was not to be, and Alonso will start just one place ahead of Button in 15th spot.
It looks like tomorrow’s race will again be dominated by Mercedes, but the fight could be interesting between Red Bull and Ferrari, and if McLaren can fix their hybrid system we may even see Button and Alonso finish the race.
Which would be far more impressive than another Mercedes win from Hamilton.
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