Barrichello Leads Ferrari Front Row in Hungary

Brazilian Rubens Barrichello just pipped his World Champion teammate Michael Schumacher to secure his third pole position of the season after their Ferrari team dominated Saturday's qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Barrichello, who had trailed Schumacher in every session at the Hungaroring, stormed to a time of 1:13.333 to stay out of reach of a late run from Schumacher, who finished second to set up his ninth front row start of the year.

The rising temperatures failed to bring the Michelin-shod teams up to the level of Ferrari, who have dominated the weekend with a one-two in every session as they bid to secure their constructors' world title.

Schumacher finished the session 0.059 seconds behind Barrichello, and 0.413 seconds faster than the closest non-Ferrari driver, Ralf Schumacher of Williams-BMW.

The second Williams of Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya was fourth, equalling his grid position from the last race in Germany, while Italian Giancarlo Fisichella placed his Jordan-Honda into fifth position.

Renault driver Jarno Trulli, also of Italy, finished sixth ahead of the Sauber pair of Brazilian Felipe Massa, in seventh and Nick Heidfeld in eighth, with British teammate Jenson Button in ninth.

Briton David Coulthard, of McLaren-Mercedes, completed the top ten, while both Minardi cars qualified with Mark Webber more than half a second faster than his teammate Anthony Davidson.

Grand Prix newcomer Davidson was the first to go out after 12 minutes, setting a time much slower than he was expected to need to qualify, and it was another 10 minutes before the next man arrived on track, with Montoya steering his Williams to a benchmark time of 1:15.228.

Ralf Schumacher then went to the top of the timesheets with a 1:14.572, but his brother Michael almost immediately beat his own pole position time from 2001 with a lap of 1:14.006 to go top.

Davidson ensured his place on the grid for his first Formula One race with just more than half the session completed with a time of 1:17.959.

The 23-year-old Briton only had a seat fitting for his Minardi car on Monday following the team's decision to rest Malaysian Alex Yoong for two races and although behind teammate Mark Webber, he was already comfortably within the 107 percent mark.

Barrichello's first run was blocked by the spinning Renault of Jenson Button, but he soon recovered to move the provisional pole position below the one minute and 14 seconds barrier with a stunning lap of 1:13.346 seconds, slicing 0.660 seconds off teammate Schumacher's time.

Ralf Schumacher became the next man into the one minute and 13 second bracket with 20 minutes to go, but his lap of 1:13.746 left him still 0.4 seconds behind Barrichello.

Michael Schumacher then knocked his younger brother down to third with a lap of 1:13.417 on his second run, but was 0.071 seconds slower than Barrichello's lap.

Schumacher pushed hard to overhaul his teammate's time in the dying minutes of the session but after going faster over the first section he failed to keep the pace and improved by 0.012 seconds but it was not enough and Barrichello pushed the benchmark further to ensure he held onto pole.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:13.333 195.137 km/h 11 2. M.Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:13.392 + 0.059 9 3. R.Schumacher Williams BMW (M) 1:13.746 + 0.413 11 4. Montoya Williams BMW (M) 1:14.706 + 1.373 11 5. Fisichella Jordan Honda (B) 1:14.880 + 1.547 11 6. Trulli Renault (M) 1:14.980 + 1.647 12 7. Massa Sauber Petronas (B) 1:15.047 + 1.714 12 8. Heidfeld Sauber Petronas (B) 1:15.129 + 1.796 12 9. Button Renault (M) 1:15.214 + 1.881 11 10. Coulthard McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:15.223 + 1.890 12 11. Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes (M) 1:15.243 + 1.910 12 12. Panis BAR Honda (B) 1:15.556 + 2.223 11 13. Villeneuve BAR Honda (B) 1:15.583 + 2.250 11 14. Sato Jordan Honda (B) 1:15.804 + 2.471 11 15. de la Rosa Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:15.867 + 2.534 12 16. Irvine Jaguar Cosworth (M) 1:16.419 + 3.086 10 17. Salo Toyota (M) 1:16.473 + 3.140 11 18. McNish Toyota (M) 1:16.626 + 3.293 11 19. Webber Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:17.428 + 4.095 9 20. Davidson Minardi Asiatech (M) 1:17.959 + 4.626 11 All Timing Unofficial