2024 Hungarian Grand Prix – Qualifying F1 results
Sergio Perez in the Red Bull.
Here are the complete results from the crucial qualifying session at the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring.
With rain falling at the Hungaroring just before qualifying began, it resulted in a thrilling hour of track action to decide the grid for a race at which it’s notoriously difficult to overtake.
2024 Hungarian Grand Prix Qualifying results
Q3:
Heading out on track at the start of Q3, the drivers were made aware that the threat of rain meant the first qualifying runs could be the ones to decide the top 10 for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
With no teammate around to help with a tow, Max Verstappen was told over team radio to “make it count” as the Dutch driver was the first to pop in a time in Q3. Setting a 1:15.555, this time from the Red Bull driver laid down a big benchmark for the rest to attack.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri fell three-tenths of a second shy with his run, as did Lewis Hamilton before the Mercedes driver was immediately beaten by Charles Leclerc by just 0.014 seconds.
Lando Norris then crossed the line to demolish Verstappen’s benchmark, with the McLaren driver popping in a 1:15.227 to go a third of a second quicker than the Red Bull – resulting in his garage bursting into applause with such an imperious margin over the rest of the field.
Retreating to the pits for a very quick turnaround, the drivers came back out for their final runs with five minutes remaining – such was the nervousness that the heavens were about to open and ruin the potential for improvements.
Piastri then pipped Verstappen to move up into second place, slotting in 0.022 behind Norris, while Verstappen’s second effort saw him close to less than half a tenth off Norris’s time – just before the red flags were flown again.
Yuki Tsunoda was involved in a hefty crash exiting Turn 5, with the Japanese driver radioing in to speculate something had occurred on the car – the replay suggesting simply a case of a driver being too greedy over the kerbs.
With just over two minutes remaining in the session, there was just enough time to get the session resumed as eight of the 10 drivers slowly left the pits to tackle a final flying lap – Tsunoda and Verstappen the only two absentees as the reigning World Champion clambered out of his Red Bull.
Norris abandoned his flying lap having failed to improve, as did Piastri, while Ricciardo’s lap moved him up to ninth ahead of Tsunoda – there were no other changes on the timesheets.
- 1. Lando Norris McLaren 1:15.227
- 2. Oscar Piastri McLaren +0.022
- 3. Max Verstappen Red Bull +0.046
- 4. Carlos Sainz Ferrari +0.469
- 5. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.627
- 6. Charles Leclerc Ferrari +0.678
- 7. Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.816
- 8. Lance Stroll Aston Martin +1.017
- 9.Daniel Ricciardo VCARB +1.220
- 10. Yuki Tsunoda VCARB +1.250
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Q2:
After the dramas of Q1, the second part of qualifying proved much more straightforward as Norris underlined the dry-weather pace of the McLaren by setting a 1:15.540 at the chequered flag.
Verstappen ended up a quarter of a second down on the British driver, with Piastri underlining McLaren’s pace by taking third place just 0.015 down on Verstappen.
The Ferraris were fourth and fifth, with Carlos Sainz ahead of Charles Leclerc.
Eliminated from Q2 were Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg in 11th, and Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas in 12th – the Finn returning to the pits explaining on the team radio that he simply had no more pace in the car.
The two Williams of Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant were 13th and 14th, respectively, with the American driver fuming about traffic as he shouted “No-one moves!” as he climbed out of his car in the garage.
Kevin Magnussen was 15th in the second Haas.
- 1. Lando Norris McLaren 1:15.540
- 2. Max Verstappen Red Bull +0.230
- 3. Oscar Piastri McLaren +0.245
- 4. Carlos Sainz Ferrari +0.345
- 5. Charles Leclerc Ferrari +0.351
- 6. Lance Stroll Aston Martin +0.535
- 7. Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.577
- 8. Yuki Tsunoda VCARB +0.581
- 9. Daniel Ricciardo VCARB +0.662
- 10. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.767
- 11. Nico Hulkenberg Haas +0.777
- 12. Valtteri Bottas Sauber +0.844
- 13. Alex Albon Williams +0.889
- 14. Kevin Magnussen Haas +1.003
- 15. Logan Sargeant Williams +1.008
Q1:
The track was dry enough to head straight out on slick tyres for the start of Q1 but, with rain threatening, it led to the drivers pounding around to get in their best times as quickly as possible in order to beat the oncoming rain.
Logan Sargeant was caught out in the urgency of the moment after going fifth-fastest, sliding off at Turn 1 in his Williams and gently tapping the barriers – forcing him to return to the pits for checks and repairs and leaving himself vulnerable as others improved.
But the session was re-flagged with just under seven minutes to go, as Sergio Perez did further damage to his prospects of staying on with Red Bull after the summer break as the Mexican crashed at Turn 8.
Losing grip on the kerbs, Perez spun out and backward into the barrier to destroy the rear of his RB20, with the footage immediately cutting to show team boss Christian Horner’s forlorn face after revealing on Friday how he has attempted to bolster his driver’s confidence.
When the session resumed, the drivers came back out on the slick tyres as the circuit’s speed remained uncertain. There were precious few improvements in the final minutes as the DRS was disabled, although Max Verstappen matched Lewis Hamilton’s fastest lap, and George Russell moved into the top 10.
Astonishingly, having been in the drop zone, Daniel Ricciardo popped in the fastest time of all as the track conditions appeared to improve, while a flurry of chequered flag improvements resulted in Russell being shuffled down into the bottom five and eliminated.
With Perez and Russell knocked out, Zhou Guanyu was eliminated in his Sauber, while the two Alpines were knocked out in 19th and 20th having set their fastest laps earlier than the others.
- 1. Daniel Ricciardo VCARB 1:17.050
- 2. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes +0.037
- 3. Max Verstappen Red Bull +0.037
- 4. Carlos Sainz Ferrari +0.194
- 5. Alex Albon Williams +0.230
- 6. Nico Hulkenberg Haas +0.312
- 7. Lance Stroll Aston Martin +0.355
- 8. Yuki Tsunoda VCARB +0.386
- 9. Charles Leclerc Ferrari +0.387
- 10. Valtteri Bottas Sauber +0.437
- 11. Oscar Piastri McLaren +0.454
- 12. Fernando Alonso Aston Martin +0.574
- 13. Lando Norris McLaren +0.705
- 14. Logan Sargeant Williams +0.720
- 15. Kevin Magnussen Haas +0.801
- 16. Sergio Perez Red Bull +0.836
- 17. George Russell Mercedes +0.918
- 18. Zhou Guanyu Sauber +0.987
- 19. Esteban Ocon Alpine +0.999
- 20. Pierre Gasly Alpine +1.116
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