Pole position for Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso claimed his first pole position of the season, Sebastian Vettel qualified 2nd and Mark Webber 3rd. There were bizzare scenes in the pitlane after qulaifying. The timing screens went off and nobody had any idea how the qualifying ended for quite a while …
1. F. Alonso – 1:21.569
2. S. Vettel – 1:21.607
3. M. Webber – 1:21.741
4. L. Hamilton – 1:21.839
5. N. Rosberg – 1:21.890
6. H. Kovalainen – 1:22.095
7. K. Raikkonen – 1:22.468
8. J. Button – 1:22.511
9. K. Nakajima – 1:22.835
10. F. Massa – no time
Q2:
Mark Webber topped the time sheets in Q2 with Hamilton 2nd and Nakajima 3rd. The biggest casualty of the session was Rubens Barrichello who only managed P13.
Felipe Massa finished the session in 8th place but crashed into the tyre wall in the final moments of Q2. It was a big impact … It appears that Massa’s helmet was hit by a flying debris before the impact. The piece of debris seems to have fallen off back of Rubens Barrichello’s car. Massa is reported to be OK, he was taken to Budapest hospital.
The drivers eliminated in Q2 are:
11. S. Buemi – 1:21.002
12. J. Trulli – 1:21.082
13. R. Barrichello – 1:21.222
14. T. Glock – 1:21.242
15. N. Piquet – 1:21.389
Q1:
Nico Rosberg was fastest in Q1 ahead of Hamilton, Webber, Vettel, Piquet and Alonso. Both BMW Saubers, both Force Indias and Jaime Alguersuari were eliminated.
The drivers eliminated in Q1 are:
16. N. Heidfeld – 1:21.738
17. G. Fisichella – 1:21.807
18. A. Sutil – 1:21.868
19. R. Kubica – 1:21.901
20. J. Alguersuari – 1:22.359
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saw a picture of massa just after taking him out of the car. it looks very scary. but it shows what could have happen…
get well soon, felipe!!!
it is probably this photo – link
really scary …
your link doesn’t work for me over here.
thats the pic i saw:
yes, that is the one …
[...] team issued statement on the condition of Felipe Massa who crashed heavily after being struck by a piece of flying debris from another car during the qualifying for Hungarian GP: “After the accident during the qualifying session of the Grand Prix of Hungary, Felipe Massa [...]
[...] Here is a short video (using some older animations) explaining the design and structure of F1 helmet and showing examples of helmet testing. Short feature on HANS device is also include. The final part of the video shows the damper and the spring – the part that is suspected to have hit Felipe Massa during Hungarian GP qualifying session. [...]