2010 HUNGARY GP: RED BULL SECURES FRONT ROW

The Red Bull duo of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber did exactly as expected by dominating qualifying at the Hungaroring. A class apart from the rest of the field all weekend, the only question was which one of the team's drivers would win the race to pole and Vettel grabbed the honour by setting a fastest lap of 1:18.773 to edge out his team-mate.

Ferrari cemented its status as 'best of the rest' behind the Red Bulls with Fernando Alonso taking third on the grid ahead of team-mate Felipe Massa. Lewis Hamilton's McLaren and Nico Rosberg's Mercedes were next up with Vitaly Petrov producing the shock of the session as he not only took a career-best seventh spot, but also out-qualified his team-mate Robert Kubica by a place.

Impressive performances by Sauber's Pedro de la Rosa and Williams driver Nico Hulkenberg brought the pair into the top 10. World champion Jenson Button was a shock elimination in Q2 as the McLaren driver could do no better than 11th after complaining that the grip he had during the morning had disappeared.

P.  Driver         Team                     Q1         Q2          Q3
1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:20.417   1:19.573   1:18.773
2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:21.132   1:19.531   1:19.184
3.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:21.278   1:20.237   1:19.987
4.  Massa          Ferrari                1:21.299   1:20.857   1:20.331
5.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:21.455   1:20.877   1:20.499
6.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:21.212   1:20.811   1:21.082
7.  Petrov         Renault                1:21.558   1:20.797   1:21.229
8.  Kubica         Renault                1:21.159   1:20.867   1:21.328
9.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:21.891   1:21.273   1:21.411
10. Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:21.598   1:21.275   1:21.710
11. Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:21.422   1:21.292
12. Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:21.478   1:21.331
13. Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:22.080   1:21.517
14. Schumacher     Mercedes               1:21.840   1:21.630
15. Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:21.982   1:21.897
16. Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:21.789   1:21.927
17. Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:21.978   1:21.998
18. Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:22.222
19. Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:24.050
20. Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:24.120
21. Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:24.199
22. di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:25.118
23. Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:26.391
24. Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth           1:26.453

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2010 HUNGARY GP: RED BULL DOMINANT FRIDAY ON HUNGARORING

FIRST FREE PRACTICE

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber easily topped the timesheets during the first free practice session for the Hungarian Grand Prix, as Red Bull's new flexi-wing appeared to provide a significant advantage at the high-downforce Hungaroring. Third placed Robert Kubica, Renault, could only get within 1.096s of Vettel, but was 0.4s clear of fourth man Jenson Button (McLaren), who did not emerge until an hour had passed. His team-mate Lewis Hamilton was only 18th. Rubens Barrichello and Pedro de la Rosa took encouraging fifth and sixth places for Williams and Sauber, ahead of German GP winner Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, the two Mercedes, and Nico Hulkenberg in the second Williams.

P.  DRIVER            TEAM                  TIME              LAPS
1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault        1:20.976            29
2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault        1:21.106  + 0.130   27
3.  Kubica         Renault                 1:22.072  + 1.096   21
4.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1:22.444  + 1.468   17
5.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth       1:22.601  + 1.625   25
6.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari          1:22.764  + 1.788   24
7.  Alonso         Ferrari                 1:22.772  + 1.796   25
8.  Rosberg        Mercedes                1:22.777  + 1.801   25
9.  Schumacher     Mercedes                1:22.792  + 1.816   26
10. Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth       1:22.966  + 1.990   25
11. Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1:23.003  + 2.027   19
12. Massa          Ferrari                 1:23.007  + 2.031   26
13. Petrov         Renault                 1:23.249  + 2.273   24
14. Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari          1:23.327  + 2.351   23
15. di Resta       Force India-Mercedes    1:23.520  + 2.544   19
16. Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:23.780  + 2.804   22
17. Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:23.868  + 2.892   28
18. Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes        1:24.075  + 3.099   15
19. Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth          1:25.032  + 4.056   22
20. Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth          1:25.210  + 4.234   23
21. Glock          Virgin-Cosworth         1:25.990  + 5.014   21
22. di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth         1:26.686  + 5.710   17
23. Senna          HRT-Cosworth            1:26.990  + 6.014   34
24. Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth            1:28.157  + 7.181   24

SECOND FREE PRACTICE

Sebastian Vettel fastest again, but Alonso put on hold plans for a Red Bull procession this weekend by ending the day second fastest ahead of Mark Webber and Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa. It was Red Bull that led the way for the vast majority of this session, with a close battle that saw team-mates Webber and Vettel repeatedly swap the top spot. Vettel finally worked down to a 1m20.087s on the super soft tyres, half a second quicker than Webber. Alonso then beat the Australian by 0.013 seconds 15 minutes by the end to secure second. Fourth-placed Massa was 0.899s down on Vettel's time. Vitaly Petrov answered his critics by enjoying one of his stronger sessions by finishing fifth fastest but McLaren may already be looking at damage limitation after Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button ended the day sixth and ninth fastest respectively.

P.  DRIVER            TEAM                  TIME              LAPS
1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault        1:20.087            33
2.  Alonso         Ferrari                 1:20.584  + 0.497   34
3.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault        1:20.597  + 0.510   36
4.  Massa          Ferrari                 1:20.986  + 0.899   33
5.  Petrov         Renault                 1:21.195  + 1.108   33
6.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes        1:21.308  + 1.221   30
7.  Kubica         Renault                 1:21.375  + 1.288   37
8.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth       1:21.623  + 1.536   41
9.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1:21.730  + 1.643   33
10. Schumacher     Mercedes                1:21.773  + 1.686   31
11. de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari          1:21.809  + 1.722   38
12. Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth       1:21.844  + 1.757   36
13. Rosberg        Mercedes                1:22.039  + 1.952   28
14. Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari          1:22.212  + 2.125   37
15. Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:22.469  + 2.382   43
16. Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1:22.507  + 2.420   22
17. Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:22.602  + 2.515   38
18. Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes    1:23.138  + 3.051   36
19. Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth          1:24.553  + 4.466   37
20. Glock          Virgin-Cosworth         1:25.376  + 5.289   35
21. di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth         1:25.669  + 5.582   32
22. Senna          HRT-Cosworth            1:26.745  + 6.658   33
23. Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth            1:26.798  + 6.711   32
24. Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth          1:27.705  + 7.618    5

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