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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 240909" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/result/763/24.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/result/763/24.html</a> In what would have been an already thrilling qualifying session, the misconduct of Alonso (dangerous braking in Friday practice) and Michael Schumacher (overtaking under red flags in Saturday morning practice) – and the resulting 2 second qualifying penalties – truly spiced up events in the Hungaroring. Needing to set time of at least 2 seconds faster then the 17th place drivers in order to gain enter into qualifying 2, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher set about their task from the off, and duly succeeded. Although they could not repeat the feat to get into the final top session, the rivalry from the title contenders was certainly there when Alonso set a time only just bettered by Michael – clutching his fist in delight. Schumi and Alonso find themselves 12th and 15th on the grid respectively for tomorrow’s race. And so pole was up for grabs, with the trio of Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa, and Giancarlo Fisichella the likely candidates. It would be the Finn would secured a second successive pole, nearly 300th of a second faster than Ferrari driver Massa. Fisi was a disappointing 8th. One feels sorry for the Honda team, as their amazing comeback from recent downs – 3rd for Barrichello, 4th for Button – will unfortunately be overshadowed by the title contenders’ woes. De la Rosa (5th) and Webber (6th) looked good, as did Toyota pair Ralf Schumacher (7th) and Jarno Trulli (9th), but outstanding performance of the day most surely go to Robert Kubica, who on his F1 debut is 10th on the grid and outperforming team mate Heidfeld (11th).</blockquote>

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