F1 Quals: Hungary 2015

Hungary.  Joy.  Here's the provisional grid for the 2015 Magyar Nagydíj:

Pos.	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:22.890	1:22.285	1:22.020
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:22.979	1:22.775	1:22.595
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:23.312	1:23.168	1:22.739
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	1:24.408	1:23.230	1:22.774
5	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:23.596	1:23.460	1:23.020
6	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:23.649	1:23.555	1:23.222
7	Kid Kvyat	Red Bull	1:23.587	1:23.597	1:23.332
8	Felipe Not NasrMassa	Williams	1:23.895	1:23.598	1:23.537
9	Embryo Verstappen	Toro Rosso	1:24.032	1:23.781	1:23.679
10	Lettuce Grosjean	Lotus	1:24.242	1:23.805	1:24.181
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:24.115	1:23.826
12	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1:24.623	1:23.869
13	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:24.444	1:24.461
14	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:23.895	1:24.609
15	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	1:24.563	No Time
16	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:24.739
17	Sony Ericsson	Sauber	1:24.843
18	Felipe Not Massa  Nasr	Sauber	1:24.997
19	Roberto Merhi	Manor	1:27.416
20	Will Stevens	Manor	1:27.949

For what seemed the first time all season, the Mercedes were actually forced to use their soft tires in Q1, lest they be bumped from quals altogether.  There's a huge performance gap between the soft and hards this time, two seconds or so... it's usually half that.  Other than that, though, nothing particularly exciting went on.  Oh sure, Red Bull seems to have made good use of the past three weeks, looking awfully racy as a result, but with Merc domination it all seems somewhat futile.

Probably the highlight of the session was Fernando Alonso's car failing towards the start of Q2.  Feeling like he had a chance to make it to Q3, it took his lame car as far as it could go... just short of the pit-in.  When it stopped?  He hopped out and pushed.  Soon, he had an entourage.

Yes, that's Alonso waving to the fans while steering his car with one hand while at a fast jog in a firesuit on a 95 degree day with high humidity.  Yes, that's also a cheeky trackworker waving to the crowd, too.  It almost pains me to point out that the second his car came to a halt on-track it was ineligible to continue the session, but that's just me.

So.  Race tomorrow morning.  F1U! sometime after.  Then the summer break, one month until the next race.  See ya then!

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