Sebastian Vettel claims 7th pole of the season in Hungary!

It looks like Red Bull has bounced back after losing to Ferrari last week in Germany with the Prancing Horse’s 1-2 victory. Sebastian Vettel and his team clinched yet another pole position, which is Vettel’s seventh of the season and the team’s sixth front row lock down, thanks to Mark Webber’s second place. The Red Bull was clearly the quicker team this weekend with Ferrari following closely behind. Championship leader McLaren is pretty much concentrating on damage limitations with it’s recent lack of performance.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, who was ‘handed’ a race win last week will start tomorrow’s Hungarian GP in third place while team mate Felipe Massa who returns after a horrific crash last time around secured fourth place. Lewis Hamilton from McLaren finished in fifth ahead of Nico Rosberg from Mercedes. The Renault duo of Robert Kubica and Vitaly Petrov managed seventh and eight places while the final top two positions went to Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa and Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg.

We have two World Champions outside of the top ten. Down in 11th is Jenson Button for McLaren while the man who did it seven times only managed 14th. Yet again Schumacher was outperformed by his younger countryman and has revealed earlier that he needs time to improve and also said that he aims to collect his eight championship title next year. It was also said that his Mercedes race car was specially developed for Jenson Button but the Brit made a last minute switch to McLaren. Apparently Button preferred a car that understeers while Schumacher opts for something that is more pointy. If there is any substance behind this, we should see a marked improvement in Shuey’s performance next year.

Virgin Racing has something to celebrate about today. Timo Glock was the fastest driver among the new teams with his 19th place, out-qualifying the both the Lotus drivers. This is the third time the German came out in front of the Lotuses. Heikki Kovalainen is 20th with team mate Jarno Trulli is 21st. Virgin’s Lucas di Grassi settled with 22nd while the final two positions went to the Hispania drivers: Bruno Senna and Sakon Yamamoto. Will Ferrari give Red Bull a good fight tomorrow, at a circuit that is difficult to overtake in? We will see!

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Harvinder Sidhu

Harvinder Singh Sidhu thinks there's nothing better than Formula 1, not even sliced bread. Having written about cars since 2006, he plunged head first into the industry out of a passion for all things four-wheeled and everything in between. The F1 enthusiast has been following the sport since 1999 and has been keeping up with it since. In between races he keeps himself busy as the host of the Driven motoring show and as our version of the Joker.

 

Comments

  • It’s gonna be very close between Vettel & Webber tomorrow.

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  • kuan18 on Jul 31, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    go Vettel!! You deserved a win…

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  • saki77 on Jul 31, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    Paul, i have new pics of wajalancer and exora with minor blacktape (31/7/2001) , how can i upload to you?…

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  • saki77 on Jul 31, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    31/7/2010…hehe…typo….

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  • sorrry paul this off topic anyway
    http://www.rallybuzz.com/proton-beats-helicopter-2/

    and a quote here

    With three rounds remaining for the team, PROTON is currently ranked second in the manufacturers championship table, with Mitsubishi in the lead, and Subaru at third placing.

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  • squawk on Aug 01, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    The Red Bulls are really really fast! Over 1.5s to Hamilton’s place.

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  • HirumaKecil on Aug 01, 2010 at 12:46 pm

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  • ryanair on Aug 01, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    Lotus is getting from bad to worst while other teams are improving!!!!

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    • frossonice on Aug 02, 2010 at 8:53 am

      Timo Glock is the fastest driver among the new teams for the third time. 3 out of 12 races he is faster than Lotus and you call them improving and lotus being worst?

      You must be a very dedicated basher of all thing related to Proton/Lotus and the G.

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