Hamilton takes pole in wet qualifying

Lewis Hamilton led a lockout on Mercedes' Formula 1 front row at a qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Q3 riders used rain tires everywhere, and during the first tests Ferrari Driver Kimi Raikkonen had the advantage over Hamilton

But after the two Mercedes drivers were Faced for a second set of three and a half minutes, it turned into a battle between Hamilton and teammate Valtteri Bottas. Bottas had the advantage after the first two sectors, but Hamilton was a surprising 0.426s faster in the final sector to take pole by 0.260s.

Raikkonen recovered third place from teammate Vettel by 0.024s just to make one – Ferrari second line

Renault driver Carlos Sainz was the only driver not to use two sets of wets in Q3 and take fifth place ahead of Pierre Gasly's Toro Rosso.

Red Bull had a bad session, with Daniel Ricciardo Brendon Hartley finishing eighth, ahead of Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean.

Q2 started with pilots starting in slicks. but after light rains – with Vettel on the middlemen the only exception.

With the rain coming back and intensifying, Vettel set a 2.1s faster lap than everyone else while the rest of the field was diving into the stands for middlemen. who was able to come back and change the fastest benefited in terms of track conditions as the circuit gradually became wetter.

Fernando Alonso, who was not one of the last to go out, finished 11th and could not improve after that but it put him in mind, Ricciardo, one The latest drivers to spend their initial time on the middlemen finish at twelfth place after being slightly improved after wetting the wets.

Ricciardo was delayed by yellow flags for Lance Stroll at Turn 9, although he also lost time in other parts of the lap compared to Raikkonen, who scored a time of more than four seconds while being 11s late. In the intermediate race, Ricciardo led 11s away from Raikkonen at the same time as the pilot Ferrari took a little more than 4 seconds behind.

Nico Hulkenberg, also among the last, was 13th ahead of Sauber's Marcus Ericsson.

Williams driver Lance Stroll arrived at Q2, but spun off corner 9 and plunged into the barrier, ending his session

McLaren pilot Stoffel Vandoorne was the fastest of those eliminated in a frantic wet / dry session Q1 after being revamped by a burst of late improvements.

The riders first raced on intermediate Pirellis after a downpour before the start, but even at the start of the session Vandoorne's looki was out of the drop zone but he was among the first to complete his last lap on a track that was getting faster

Ricciardo, Ericsson, Hartley and Stroll were part of The drivers made late improvements and pushed Vandoorne in the last five.

Charles Leclerc was 17th for Sauber, 0.035s slower than Vandoorne but comfortably cleared from the head of Force India's Esteban Ocon.

Ocon did his best lap on his He was a half-second off the spot for a spot in Q2 while he was struggling with a lack of back brakes.

His teammate Sergio Perez was nineteenth, a tenth away from Williams driver Sergio Sirotkin, complaining of being delayed by a Ferrari in the last two corners on his quick lap.