Norris heads McLaren one-two in Hungary as Perez and Russell endure shock result

McLaren secured a shock result in today’s qualifying session of the Hungarian Grand Prix with Lando Norris heading a front row lock-out for the papaya team. F1Technical’s trackside reporter Balazs Szabo reports on the qualifying session of the Budapest F1 round.

McLaren has been looking mighty quick all through the weekend, and their drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri delivered when it really mattered.

Lando Norris set the quickest lap in Q3 with a 1m15.227s, only fractionally beating his team-mate Oscar Piastri. Reigning champion Max Verstappen put his heavily-upgraded RB20 in P3 with only half a tenth adrift of Norris.

Ferrari has endured an up-and-down weekend so far in Budapest with showing encouraging speed in several sessions, but struggling for pace in others. Ultimately, Carlos Sainz took an impressive fourth place for tomorrow’s Hungarian Grand Prix.

His team-mate Charles Leclerc was unfortunate in Q3 as he was the only driver to miss out a second flying lap on fresh tyres due to a late red flag interruption, and thus ending up down in P6.

Lewis Hamilton took fifth in a session which saw him akmost miss out on the cut into Q3.

Running several upgrades this weekend, Aston Martin had a strong session with Fernando Alonso heading his team mate iLance Stroll. The Spaniard and the Canadian took seventh and eighth respectively.

Daniel Ricciardo was sensational in the opening qualifying session, but he was also affected by the late red flag, meaning that he ended up ninth on the grid.