Toyota’s Timo Glock had a fantastic session on his way to fifth place, and felt that he was unfortunate not to be on the front row of the grid. The German was still extremely happy with his career and his place on the grid.
Behind the top six, Renault continued its promising pace with seventh place for Fernando Alonso and 10th place for Nelson Piquet. The Renault pairing will be pleased that they can look ahead to the race with immense optimism.
The pairing will be sandwiched on the grid by Red Bull’s Mark Webber, who secured eight, and the other Toyota of Jarno Trulli, who will be happy to start the race in ninth in what looks to be a very good weekend for the Japanese team.
Scuderia Toro Rosso star Sebastien Vettel looked on course for a third consecutive top 10 berth, but he had to settle for 11th place. Yet another brilliant performance from the Red Bull-bound German.
Jenson Button will start alongside him in 12th place after a phenomenal lap in which he managed to find a whole 0.8 seconds. It was a super-smooth final run in Q2 for Button, and it was unfortunate he was not in Q3.
His surprise performance pushed David Coulthard down to 13th place, where he will start alongside Nico Rosberg. Rosberg was closely followed by his teammate Kazuki Nakajima, who will start in 16th behind Nick Heidfeld. Both now realise that they must find some pace, and soon.
Rubens Barrichello could not replicate the brilliant pace of his teammate and had to settle for 17th position. He was closely followed by the Force India of Giancarlo Fisichella, and embarrassingly for him his 18th place is one of his best performances this season.
As noted earlier, Bourdais will take his five place penalty and drop from 14th place to 19th. Adrian Sutil will start in 20th, and last, place.
So my prediction for Nick Heidfeld was slightly wrong. Okay, that is a massive understatement, I know it is, but I still think that BMW can push this weekend. Perhaps not for victory like I thought, but I see a podium yet again.
Hamilton is on fire yet again and he is setting some stonking times. Many will easily say that Felipe Massa was the fastest, but that was only because Hamilton only set one lap in each session when he had light fuel.
Another awful weekend for Kimi Raikkonen, and not even the shark fin engine cover is doing much. How embarrassed must they feel to be so excited for this new upgrade, when they can only manage sixth with Kimi?
Massa did get third, but he won’t finish there. I can see a McLaren one-two on the cards, but—and this is the killer—I do think that we may see a genuine fight between Lewis and Heikki. Ron Dennis made it clear earlier today that there are no team orders and both drivers will race each other.
I’m pleased to hear that. It should hopefully shut up a few haters on this site that jumped on the Ferrari bandwagon and pointed the finger. How hypocritical can the Tifosi get?
There we have it. McLaren is in the front row and while Ferrari has another bad weekend. But who will take victory in the 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix?
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