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[Denthúl]

Wouldn't surprise me if Lewis carried this form right through and won the race. He's been driving impressively today.

[Hammer278]

It's part of the drivers' jobs to feedback on WHAT they feel is going wrong; its the engineers' job to figure HOW to improve it.

They often discuss about it, look at telemetry along with driver feedback; sometimes its just a simple "break earlier into this turn", other times its "we could change the set-up and see how it works"... other times its: "we need to recalibrate the wind tunnel"

But the engineers rely on both telemetry and driver's feedback.

Exactly. According to a few here, the drivers need to just shut their traps and let the engineers work. I wish Redbull practiced this concept, they'd be battling Force India and Renaults right now.

[Hammer278]

Hamilton maintains advantage in Hungary

Lewis Hamilton maintained his advantage at the top of the timesheets during second practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix, setting the fastest time of Friday practice with a 1:21.018.

He was 0.241s faster than his nearest competitor Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, with Jenson Button third fastest in the second McLaren, 0.304s off his team-mate's pace. The Red Bulls were fourth and fifth with Mark Webber leading Sebastian Vettel by 0.041s.

The times were significantly faster than the morning session as drivers bolted on the sticky supersoft tyres and track temperatures rose by 10C. It's clear that the top three teams will be closely matched this weekend, and Red Bull showed none of the early signs of dominance they displayed at the same circuit last year.

Felipe Massa was fifth fastest but over a second off the front-running pace, with the gap to the Mercedes behind narrower than the gap to Vettel ahead. However, his long-run pace was closer to Ferrari team-mate Alonso, who was noticeably quicker than his rivals in the middle sector of the lap when running a heavy fuel load. It looks like the Mercedes will again be a solid fourth with the inter-team battle between Nico Rosberg (seventh fastest) and Michael Schumacher (eighth fastest) set to rage on.

Force India again looks likely to provide a strong performance in the midfield with Paul di Resta ninth fastest and Adrian Sutil tenth. However, they will face competition from the Saubers, Renaults and Williams who all looked within striking distance of the top ten over the two Friday sessions.

Towards the bottom of the time sheets, Jarno Trulli clocked a very respectable time just 0.1s off Sebastien Buemi in the Toro Rosso. He was also quicker than Vitaly Petrov for much of the 90 minutes, although the Russian's Renault spent most of the second half of the session stuck in the garage. HRT's Tonio Liuzzi also has limited mileage, completing less laps than his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and finishing last overall.

The bottom four cars were all outside 107% of Hamilton's fastest time, but are likely to be closer or within that all-important marker when it comes to the first session of qualifying.

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It's looking good guys. Only Friday, but the Mac is on a little roll.

[nish2280]

I doubt any of the teams made drastic changes to their cars over the week so i think performance of the top 6 is going to be the same as last year. We are in for a good race!
(Assuming people dont struggle to overtake like last year)

[andrew]

Wouldn't surprise me if Lewis carried this form right through and won the race. He's been driving impressively today.

Should be a Red Bull race but it is relatively cool so you may be right. Finishing order here.

[LewEngBridewell]

F*** the BBC/Sky farce and let's talk some racing for goodness sake!

Webber commences proceedings by planting the RBR in the wall, his trying season duly continues.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton tops both sessions, which for me, is rather pleasing.

Looks like it's gonna be another close race between the top 3 teams.

[racechick]

F*** the BBC/Sky farce and let's talk some racing for goodness sake!

Webber commences proceedings by planting the RBR in the wall, his trying season duly continues.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton tops both sessions, which for me, is rather pleasing.

Looks like it's gonna be another close race between the top 3 teams.

Im quite pleased with Lewis too I hope he does very very well in quali cos i might miss the race..Im on a ferry. Please ferry show the race !:pray:

[F1er]

There is a difference between driver feedback and fault diagnosis.

You're trying tooooooooooo hard.

[Crawf]

Will be an interesting battle for Pole!

We might have an interesting battle in the 2nd half of the year....but abit late by any team to challenge Vettel now though...but it only takes a few unlucky races for everything to change!

[McLaren]

I still think we will see a red bull on pole,but with Hamilton and Alonso about you just never know.Hopefully it will be cool enough for ferrari to struggle with heat in their tyres.

[IceManpjn]

Wouldn't surprise me if Lewis carried this form right through and won the race. He's been driving impressively today.

I'd really like to see that. Knowing his luck, he'll do great Saturday and well into Sunday and then have some random failure with like three laps to go.

[Crawf]

Ricciardo has arrived! Killing Liuzzi in practise! Up with the Virgin cars too!

[andrew]

Vettel on pole!

And Massa is faster than Alonso. Can Alonso please confirm he understands this?

[australia99]

fantastic finish to Qualifying!

shame Hamilton couldn't sneak it, but a good result in second. hopefully he has the type of start he had last race.

[acosmichippo]

that was probably the most exciting qualifying session this year. Great to see the teams a lot closer to RBR.