Hungarian GP qualifying day
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By: Matt Beer
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That's it from Autosport Live and qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Don't forget to check out Autosport.com and Motorsport.com for all the post-session news and analysis. See you back here for the race tomorrow.
Here's our qualifying report as Lewis Hamilton led a surprise Mercedes front-row lockout in a rain-hit session at the Hungaroring. 
"I've never had such awful balance in the wet," reported Verstappen. "It's unbelievable. Sliding all of the place, no grip."
Grosjean was furious too - "F*ck, f*ck, f*ck - the Red Bull completely f*cked me. I was on a push lap". Verstappen the target of his ire there, apparently.
Magnussen accused Hamilton of blocking him at the final corner on a late-run in Q3 and then stayed in front with no-one in front of him for the whole of the rest of the subsequent lap. "He didn't need to do it," said the Dane. A bit of post-session controversy perhaps?
"It's not ideal but what is the most important thing is that the car was nice and drivable in the wet today," says Raikkonen.
"It's great for the team to have a one-two, jeez, we couldn't have expected this," says Hamilton. "The heavens opened and it was fair game."
Hamilton and Bottas arrive on the pitstraight for the insight-packed post-session interviews. Only one umbrella there so far.
Sainz, who sat third ahead of the final runs, reported "ahh, no tyre!' on his final lap. He clearly ran out of grip then.
Rest of the field: 11 Alonso; 12 Ricciardo; 13 Hulkenberg; 14 Ericsson; 15 Stroll; 16 Vandoorne; 17 Leclerc; 18 Ocon; 19 Perez; 20 Sirotkin
Q3 result: 1 Hamilton; 2 Bottas; 3 Raikkonen; 4 Vettel; 5 Sainz; 6 Gasly; 7 Verstappen; 8 Hartley; 9 Magnussen; 10 Grosjean
Mercedes held Hamilton in the pits to wait for the track to dry that little bit more, according to his team radio.
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