Lewis Hamilton will start on pole position for the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg.
This is Hamilton’s fifth pole at the Hungaroring, a circuit where he has won at on four previous occasions. The reigning world champion has been utterly dominant this weekend.
Hamilton took pole by a whopping half a second ahead of team-mate Rosberg who will be left scratching his head.
Sebastian Vettel was best of the rest in third ahead of Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Bottas, Kvyat, Massa, Verstappen and Grosjean.
The first part of qualifying saw every driver (other than Ricciardo) run the option tyre which are approximately two seconds faster than the prime tyre. Hamilton initially set the pace ahead of Ricciardo however improvement in track conditions forced the reigning champion to use a set of option tyres.
A late lap from Fernando Alonso saw him progress into Q2 however teammate Button failed to progress. Button dropped out of Q1 after suffering a ‘deployment of ‘ERS’ problem. Ericsson, Nasr, Mehri and Stevens also failed to make the cut.
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel led the way in the early stages of Q2 however proceedings were halted after Alonso’s McLaren stopped in the final sector which resulted in a red flag.
Late laps from Max Verstappen and Romain Grosjean saw them scrape through into the pole position shoot-out however Sainz and Maldonado were unable to match their team-mates efforts.
After the first runs in Q3, Hamilton led Rosberg, Vettel, Ricciardo and Raikkonen. The Mercedes had yet to use a new set of soft tyres at this stage.
When Mercedes put on the new tyres, Hamilton extracted the maximum from them and stormed to pole position by half a second.
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