Hamilton tops final practice in Hungary

The Briton hit the front after 25 minutes, deposing Ferrari's Felipe Massa just seconds after the Brazilian had become the first of the major contenders to set a lap time.

Massa then reclaimed the top spot a quarter of an hour later, but once again his sojourn at the head of the times was brief, as Hamilton lapped in 1:20.228 on soft tyres in the final five minutes to end the morning on top.

Behind Massa, who stayed on hard tyres for his final run and also hit traffic, Timo Glock took an impressive third for Toyota, having been amongst the front-runners throughout the session.

Heikki Kovalainen put the second McLaren fourth, with the team again using the new nose wings that they had tried in second practice yesterday.

Renault's Nelson Piquet and BMW's Nick Heidfeld completed the top six, while the two Toro Rossos put in a promising performance as Sebastien Bourdais and Sebastian Vettel claimed seventh and eighth ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, who hit traffic on his last run, and Williams' Nico Rosberg.

The session saw little incident, with brief trips off the road for Fernando Alonso (Renault) and Robert Kubica (BMW) the only errors of note, the Pole damaging a bargeboard in his mistake.

Pos  Driver        Team                     Time              Laps
 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:20.228           14
 2.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:20.567 + 0.339   14
 3.  Glock         Toyota              (B)  1:20.623 + 0.395   21
 4.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:20.657 + 0.429   15
 5.  Piquet        Renault             (B)  1:20.917 + 0.689   21
 6.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber          (B)  1:21.096 + 0.868   15
 7.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:21.179 + 0.951   21
 8.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:21.184 + 0.956   22
 9.  Raikkonen     Ferrari             (B)  1:21.187 + 0.959   18
10.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:21.195 + 0.967   19
11.  Alonso        Renault             (B)  1:21.228 + 1.000   21
12.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:21.357 + 1.129   17
13.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:21.489 + 1.261   16
14.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:21.601 + 1.373   18
15.  Barrichello   Honda               (B)  1:21.703 + 1.475   20
16.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:21.752 + 1.524   17
17.  Button        Honda               (B)  1:21.772 + 1.544   19
18.  Kubica        BMW Sauber          (B)  1:21.975 + 1.747   18
19.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:22.189 + 1.961   22
20.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:22.550 + 2.322   23

All timing unofficial