Ferrari’s Charles Lakeler took a sensational, amazing poll position in the Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of Oscar Piastry and Lando Noris for McLaren’s title.
Lakeler, not near McLaren’s speed, until the last part of the qualifying, brought the piastry to only 0.026 seconds.
Noris, 16 points in the championship, were 0.015Secs behind their team partner.
George Russell of Mercedes was in fourth place, two beyond Eston Martins’ performance, Fernando Alonso and Lance closed the third line.
Lakeler’s team partner Lewis Hamilton failed to move beyond the second knock-out season and start from 12th place.
Max Vestepen of Red Bull, all struggling over the weekends, was behind the eighth, Gabriel Bortoleo of Saubh.
Told that he was on the position of the pole by his engineer Brian Bozi, but was incredible. “What?” He replied. “Mama Mia.”
Once out of the car, he said: “I have no words, it is probably one of the best poll positions made by me because I did not expect.
“Today I understand nothing in F1. The whole merit has become extremely difficult. And when I say, this is not exaggeration.
“It was difficult for us to go to Q2 and it was difficult to go to Q3. In Q3, the terms changed slightly, everything became very difficult and I knew that I had to launch a clean adoption to target the third and it ended the position of the pole, I can’t believe it.”
Piastry said: “Hawa did 180 from Q2 to Q3, which changed the circuit. It was difficult to do justice in those conditions. I was a little surprised that we could not go soon.
“Charles are all accelerated over the weekends, and this morning (in the final practice) he was closer than our expectation. I was not expecting Ferrari to finish second place at the end of this week, but he has done a good job.”
Noris said: “Charles did a good job in that last lap, perhaps a little more risk in circumstances, the wind changed a lot and punished us. We thought we have done a good job on laps but we were just slow.”
