- Valtteri Bottas joins British world champion on front row
- Championship leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull is third
Lewis Hamilton took pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix with a superb lap to beat his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas into second and Bull’s Max Verstappen into third place. The Mercedes driver shone in the sunshine that bathed the Hungaroring with a lap that his title rival could not match. Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez was in fourth and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly in fifth.
Verstappen opened the running in Q3 but struggled with a lack of grip from the off. Hamilton was immense behind him on track, beating his times across every sector to set a time of 1min 15.419sec, three tenths up on Bottas and a full half a second up on Verstappen.
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