Nico Rosberg will start on pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton alongside him.
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Row 1 | 1. Nico Rosberg 1’19.965 Mercedes | |
2. Lewis Hamilton 1’20.108 Mercedes | ||
Row 2 | 3. Daniel Ricciardo 1’20.280 Red Bull | |
4. Max Verstappen 1’20.557 Red Bull | ||
Row 3 | 5. Sebastian Vettel 1’20.874 Ferrari | |
6. Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’21.131 Toro Rosso | ||
Row 4 | 7. Fernando Alonso 1’21.211 McLaren | |
8. Jenson Button 1’21.597 McLaren | ||
Row 5 | 9. Nico Hulkenberg 1’21.823 Force India | |
10. Valtteri Bottas 1’22.182 Williams | ||
Row 6 | 11. Romain Grosjean 1’24.941 Haas | |
12. Daniil Kvyat 1’25.301 Toro Rosso | ||
Row 7 | 13. Sergio Perez 1’25.416 Force India | |
14. Kimi Raikkonen 1’25.435 Ferrari | ||
Row 8 | 15. Esteban Gutierrez 1’26.189 Haas | |
16. Felipe Nasr 1’27.063 Sauber | ||
Row 9 | 17. Jolyon Palmer 1’43.965 Renault | |
18. Felipe Massa 1’43.999 Williams | ||
Row 10 | 19. Kevin Magnussen 1’44.543 Renault | |
20. Pascal Wehrlein 1’47.343 Manor | ||
Row 11 | 21. Rio Haryanto 1’50.189 Manor | |
22. Marcus Ericsson 1’46.984 Sauber |
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2016 Hungarian Grand Prix
- 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix team radio transcript
- Raikkonen’s rise to sixth earns Driver of the Weekend win
- Rosberg ‘surprised Hamilton is suddenly a fan of safety’
- Few excited by Hungarian GP “chess match”
- 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix Predictions Championship results
Wil-Liam (@wil-liam)
23rd July 2016, 15:10
Wow such an end
Wil-Liam (@wil-liam)
23rd July 2016, 15:10
What a first sector from Hamilton
Prab
23rd July 2016, 15:11
Yeah, that was really something, wasn’t it!
Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
23rd July 2016, 15:12
Double waved yellows, so slow down and be prepared to stop yet he sets fastest sector?
FIA better have a good response because lifting for 100ms next time might not be enough to avoid killing someone
Rich
23rd July 2016, 15:15
Yeah I was a bit surprised as well, it almost seemed like a movie for about 10 seconds. Fastest yellows ever for a car sitting on the track, then rights the car and yellows are gone at an instant. What a session.
Herberto (@herberto)
23rd July 2016, 15:12
How can this be possible?
Yellow flags and Nico made the best time in that sector…getting the pole.
Uzair Syed (@ultimateuzair)
23rd July 2016, 15:13
Rosberg set that purple sector time under yellow flags. Time should be disallowed in my opinion.
Herberto (@herberto)
23rd July 2016, 15:13
True 😳
Ed Marques (@edmarques)
23rd July 2016, 15:13
He didn’t slow down ebough on double yellows
Sridhar
23rd July 2016, 15:15
The longest qualifying I have seen in my 10 years or so of following F1. It was a mixed bag but markedly better than what I have seen this year.
Hope the race offers some excitement and allows swap of positions as tyre management doesnt seem to be playing a bg part in this season.
Ju88sy (@)
23rd July 2016, 15:17
Rosberg got lucky, rather than P3 he lucked into Pole. It was going to be a straight fight between Ricciardo and Hamilton who had 3-4 tenths on S1 over Nico.
Crazy qualifying, shame Fernando lost it at the end and we missed the final attack from the drivers.
hahostolze (@hahostolze)
23rd July 2016, 15:20
Embarrassing the length of the delays, and the red flags. Also, those advertising hoardings are garbage. Farcical.
Leo B
23rd July 2016, 15:22
There’s quite a lot to say about this qualifying session.
First of all, it was started as soon as possible, on a rather wet track. The criticism following the safety car start in Silverstone probably played a role. The result however was one of the more ridiculous sessions for a long time, with no less than 4 red flags. It would have been much better to have postponed the start by an hour, waiting for the rain to pass.
As a result only 11 drivers qualified for the Grand Prix, the other half of the field being outside 107% of pole. Now there usually is waiver for drivers failing the 107% requirement to start the race. For unclear (and unanounced) reasons, this waiver was already granted to the drivers placed 12-16, as they were allowed to participate in Q2. The waiver has never been used for qualifying before. Now I understand the decision from an entertainment point of view, but it does takes the rules very lightly.
And then there was the ending, where Rosberg stole pole position while ignoring double waved yellow flags. In Austria the penalty was 3 grid places, so I expect Rosberg to start from 4th.
hahostolze (@hahostolze)
23rd July 2016, 15:38
Are you realising what you’re saying? This is an outdoor sport. Rain is part of it. To say that this track was too wet makes no sense, literally hundreds of sessions in the past have been similarly wet. Secondly, your point on qualifying for the Grand Prix makes no sense. It’s only the case because of the red flags, nothing to do with the conditions. This could have happened with any other type of session, an ill-timed red flag. The red flags were ridiculous in themselves, the Bianchi backlash continues.
Leo B
23rd July 2016, 17:35
-The session was started in conditions such that any incident would lead to a red flag;
-The conditions were such that it was hard to imagine no incident taking place;
Logical conclusion should be the session was started prematurely. Remember, this was just qualifying. The only purpose is to determine the grid order. Why aim for chaos, if it could be done properly by waiting a bit?
The rule is that any driver who doesn’t set a time in Q1 within 107% of the fastest time, is not qualified to start the race. It doesn’t matter why a driver is outside 107%. The prevent a depleted starting grid, drivers can ask for a waiver to start the race. Apparantly they can take part in Q2/3, but according to the rules their Q2/3 efforts should be futile. Here is the rule:
Sporting Reg. 35.1
During Q1, any driver whose best qualifying lap exceeds 107% of the fastest time set during that session, or who fails to set a time, will not be allowed to take part in the race. Under exceptional circumstances however, which may include setting a suitable lap time in a free practice session, the stewards may permit the car to start the race.
Any driver accepted in this manner will be placed at the back of the starting grid after any other penalties have been applied.
Should there be more than one driver accepted in this manner they will be arranged on the grid in the order they were classified in P3.
PorscheF1 (@xtwl)
23rd July 2016, 15:42
Doesn’t the 107% rule only apply to Q1,…?
elio (@elio)
23rd July 2016, 19:07
Merc’s absolute domination in the sport continues and their numbers put McLaren ones (between 1988 and 1990) to shame.
Tomorrow, will be Mercedes 48th race since the 2014 season (“hybrid” era) and their numbers are absolutely overwhelming when compared to McLaren’s. In the same number of races, Merc managed to win 40 times… Out of 48 races in just two and a half seasons (and I’m not even counting a very possible win tomorrow). That’s just incredible!
On the other hand, with the same number of races (but in three complete seasons), McLaren won 31 GP’s, did 42 PP (the large majority of them, made by the best F1 qualifier ever) and 23 FL.
McLaren’s domination was reached in 1988 (mainly) and 1989, while Merc’s absolute domination lasts since the beginning of the 2014 up to today.
If I throw the numbers of RB’s most successful period into the equation (three complete seasons — 2011-2013), statistically, they’re behind both Merc and McL as in those 58 races, they managed to win 32 times, did 36 PP and 29 FL.
No wonder why F1 is losing a lot of viewers and followers. This kind of domination by a single team and for so long, was never seen before and is really hurting the sport.