Leclerc takes shock pole at Hungarian GP

Charles Leclerc took a daze rod presumption for Ferrari astatine the Hungarian Grand Prix up of Oscar Piastri successful 2nd and Lando Norris successful third.

Leclerc hooked up a 1:15.372 to bushed title person Piastri to the fastest clip successful Q3 by 0.026 seconds, with Piastri's McLaren teammate Norris a further 0.015 seconds adrift successful third.

Norris acceptable the fastest clip of each successful Q2 - a 1:14.980 - but could not replicate it erstwhile it successful Q3 erstwhile the entity clouded over, the upwind picked up and the way somesthesia dropped.

"Today I don't recognize thing successful Formula 1," Leclerc said afterwards. "Honestly, the full qualifying has been highly difficult. When I accidental highly difficult, it's not exaggerating. It was hard for america to get to Q2, it was hard for america to get to Q3 ... I knew I conscionable had to bash a cleanable thigh to tagret 3rd and astatine the extremity of the time it's rod position. I decidedly did not expect that.

"Honestly, I person nary words. It's astir apt 1 of the champion rod positions I've ever had. It's the astir unexpected, for sure," helium added.