Norris heads McLaren one-two in Hungary as Perez and Russell endure shock result

McLaren secured a shock lead to right now’s qualifying session of the Hungarian Grand Prix with Lando Norris heading a entrance row lock-out for the papaya workforce. F1Technical’s trackside reporter Balazs Szabo studies on the qualifying session of the Budapest F1 spherical.

McLaren has been wanting mighty fast all via the weekend, and their drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri delivered when it actually mattered.

Lando Norris set the quickest lap in Q3 with a 1m15.227s, solely fractionally beating his team-mate Oscar Piastri. Reigning champion Max Verstappen put his heavily-upgraded RB20 in P3 with solely half a tenth adrift of Norris.

Ferrari has endured an up-and-down weekend to this point in Budapest with displaying encouraging pace in a number of classes, however struggling for tempo in others. Finally, Carlos Sainz took a powerful fourth place for tomorrow’s Hungarian Grand Prix.

His team-mate Charles Leclerc was unlucky in Q3 as he was the one driver to overlook out a second flying lap on recent tyres resulting from a late crimson flag interruption, and thus ending up down in P6.

Lewis Hamilton took fifth in a session which noticed him akmost miss out on the reduce into Q3.

Working a number of upgrades this weekend, Aston Martin had a powerful session with Fernando Alonso heading his workforce mate iLance Stroll. The Spaniard and the Canadian took seventh and eighth respectively.

Daniel Ricciardo was sensational within the opening qualifying session, however he was additionally affected by the late crimson flag, that means that he ended up ninth on the grid.

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