Lando Norris has once again beats Max Verstappen to pole position; this time for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The McLarens are beginning to solidify themselves as the top performing car on the grid as the woe at Red Bull continue to see their early season dominance dwindle. The margin to pole was very slim with P1-3 being separated by 0.05s however the real concern for Red Bull is the continued lack of performance from Sergio Perez. Perez crashed out of Q1 and the session was red flagged. He will start P16 in Sunday’s race.
George Russell also had a day to forget after he also failed to make it out of Q1 putting an end to his recent streak of success. Russel was visibly frustrated with the result and said, “We didn’t do a good enough job today. I was unable to put a lap together earlier in Q1 and that had left us vulnerable near the cut-off. After the red flag, we were on track at its most damp and then we didn’t have enough fuel complete a push lap as it was at its most dry. We should have been comfortably through and that is frustrating…We shouldn’t have been in that position though in the first place and that’s on me. We will go through it tonight to understand what happened, what went wrong, and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
P17 is clearly not where we should be qualifying. We should have a car to battle back into the points tomorrow though. We have shown good speed throughout practice and our long run pace was encouraging. Tomorrow is a new day, and we will see what we can achieve.”