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reviewing today qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix with Charles LeCler in the Ferrari on pole position ahead of the two McLaren drivers,

Oscar Piastri will start alongside Charles LeClerc on the front row of the grid.

Lando Norris starting from third.

And then the second row occupied by George Russell as well.

Very close qualifying in the end, particularly in Q3, just over one tenth of a second separating the top six drivers, half a tenth of a second, separating the top four.

Plenty to get into on today's episode, because early on this was looking like it was going to be something of a

formulaic qualifying session. It looked like going into qualifying at least. This was going

to be a comfortable one-two for McLaren. Maybe Ferrari best position to challenge as the second

best team. That didn't go according to plan,

but both in a positive and a negative fashion

with LeClair in first and Lewis Hamilton in 12th.

Yeah, let's start out front.

That feels like the most natural way to kick off this episode.

Charles LeClair, throughout Q1 and Q2, looked okay.

And I'm not sure whether to lean on the side of positivity,

and there was relative comfort in the way that at least he occupied himself throughout the first couple of

qualifying sessions. But it didn't look as if a pole position was on the cards. Going into

this qualifying session, it looked throughout practice three that maybe LeCloire was going to be

best position to finish third, but probably a few

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