HUNGARY GP – QUALIFYING RESULTS+

In torrid conditions at the Hungaroring, where the air temperature hit 33 degrees, the track on 55, qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix went well for Scuderia Ferrari. Sebastian Vettel was third fastest with a 1.22.739. Kimi Raikkonen was always a front runner, ending up fifth in 1.23.020. Pole position went to Lewis Hamilton who did a 1.22.020 in his Mercedes to finish just ahead of his team-mate Nico Rosberg (1.22.595.) [via ferrarif1.com]

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From motorsport.com – Kimi:  “It’s not ideal but we missed the morning with the soft tyres with the issue. We didn’t really know how it would be. It was not too bad, there were a few issues here and there, small things, which cost a bit of time. But at least we are on the clean side, and hopefully can make a good start and go from there and see what happens during the race.” Expanding on his FP3 problems he added: “It didn’t help, like I said, because we didn’t have the run on the soft tyres this morning. Things happen sometimes. It was a bit unknown for qualifying, but we keep improving, still it wasn’t ideal in the end. It wasn’t too bad, but obviously you always want to be higher up. We’ll try to do our best. Obviously Mercedes will be strong, but we’ll try to be second best after that, if we cannot challenge them. It’s going to be a long race. We’ll have to see how it pans out, just keep pushing and see where we are. We had some issues obviously yesterday, so we probably didn’t get exactly what we wanted done, there was red flags and stuff. I think it wasn’t too bad. Like I said hopefully make a good start, and go from there, and see where we get. It should be pretty OK.”

From ferrarif1.com – Kimi: “It was a pretty normal qualifying, but we did not get the ideal result. We had some difficulties here and there and did not manage to put a very good lap together. This morning we had some issues and could not run with the soft tyres: for sure this did not help and it was a bit of unknown for qualifying, but it was not too bad and the behavior of the car was pretty good. Tomorrow I’ll be on the clean side of the starting grid, we’ll try to make a good start and see what happens in the first few corners. The race will be very long and obviously the Mercedes will be very strong, but if we cannot challenge them we’ll try to be second best. We’ll keep pushing and do our best.”

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