F1 Hungarian GP Live Updates - final practice and qualifying
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By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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And here's the report - we'll see you for the race tomorrow! 
Stroll: "Very happy at the moment. The car was strong all the way through qualifying - the whole weekend, really. It's just about piecing all together. [The mediums] were a gamble but it's put us in a good position for tomorrow."
Bottas: "Yeah, I saw in FP3 it would be close with Lewis, at least. We seem to be on another level, pretty far ahead of the others. My laps were okay but I couldn't really go faster."
"I have to pinch myself, it doesn't register. It's quite humbling because I work with an incredible bunch of people." says Hamilton, on being told it's his 90th pole. "Valtteri doesn't make it easy for me and it takes perfection to do laps like that."
Qualifying in the top 3 is a rarity for Stroll, so much so he forgot to park his Pink Panther in the right place.
Top 10 order: 1. Hamilton, 2. Bottas, 3. Stroll, 4. Perez, 5. Vettel, 6. Leclerc, 7. Verstappen, 8. Norris, 9. Sainz, 10. Gasly.
It's a 1m13.447s for Hamilton! Phwoar - Bottas gets within a hundredth of a second, but it's not quite enough to take pole from the six-time champ!
"That's it for us, right?" Verstappen enquires. He might have a slight issue here, with worried faces in the Red Bull garage.
Now, here comes the lull. Data, tyre life and run plans are being pored through before a final set of laps.
Vettel and Leclerc sit P7 and P8, albeit over a second-and-a-half down on Hamilton's rather stunning laptime.
Verstappen jumps into 4th, with Norris and Sainz just behind. Perez gets track-limitsed and loses his P6 time.
But Hamilton does a 1m13.613s to go a second faster than Stroll! Bottas pops in a 13.9s time to slot into P2.
From one West Country force to another, Norris put in a good lap to split the Ferraris in Q2, despite suggesting McLaren might struggle this weekend.
While we wait, back on the Yeovil news. Strong team to take to the field against Barnet: top scorers Murphy and Duffus are in the first XI, with magicman Albi Skendi joining Lee, Worthington and Hippolyte in the midfield.
For the first time this year, there's two Ferraris in Q3. Now, did anyone think we'd be saying that? No?
Relief at Racing Point, as Perez evades the drop zone as track conditions didn't improve for the field.
Leclerc fires himself up to P3, then, but Perez might be rescued by the drop zone dwellers not going much quicker...
The mid-Q2 deadlock is broken, and the Hungaroring plays host to a gaggle of cars all looking to make the difference.
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