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Laurence Edmondson
Charles Leclerc took a shock pole place for Ferrari on the Hungarian Grand Prix forward of Oscar Piastri in second and Lando Norris in third. Leclerc attached a 1:15.372 to beat championship chief Piastri to the quickest time in Q3 by 0.026 seconds, with Piastri’s McLaren teammate Norris an additional 0.015 seconds adrift in third. Norris set the quickest time of all in Q2 – a 1:14.980 – however couldn’t replicate it when it in Q3 when the sky clouded over, the wind picked up and the monitor temperature dropped. “As we speak I do not perceive something in Method 1,” Leclerc mentioned afterwards. “Truthfully, the entire qualifying has been extraordinarily tough. Once I say extraordinarily tough, it isn’t exaggerating. It was tough for us to get to Q2, it was tough for us to get to Q3 … I knew I simply needed to do a clear lap to tagret third and on the finish of the day it is pole place. I positively didn’t count on that. “Truthfully, I’ve no phrases. It is in all probability among the best pole positions I’ve ever had. It is essentially the most sudden, for positive,” he added.