Lewis Hamilton showed one more time that McLaren team has the fastest car. He set the fastest lap on Q3 at 1:20.899sec, followed by his teammate Heikki Kovalainen 0.241sec behind.

The first surprise of the qualification session happened when Nick Heidfeld was left out of the top 15 for Q2. He was placed 16th as some understeering problems kept him far from being able to challenge a better position. His teammate, Robert Kubica did better once more and he was placed 4th.

Ferrari had another bad day, with Massa being quicker than Raikonen once more. The Brazilian was 3rd while the Finn has been placed 6th, right behind Timo Glock with Toyota, who seems to be on great shape after his accident in Germany two weeks ago. The team is also going faster, showing that they have solved many of the problems they used to have in the past.

Alonso was placed 7th followed by Mark Webber in 8th place. The last two positions on the top ten have been taken by Jarno Truli and N. Piquet Jr.

At this point of the championship we can see that the balance is changing towards McLaren, while Ferrari is falling back, and BMW seems to have relaxed after the win in Canada and the great start at the beginning of the championship.

Maybe it is too early to talk about this but if Lewis Hamilton wins again in Hungary tomorrow he will have made a big step towards winning the F1 drivers' world championship. As for the constructors championship, Ferrari still leads but the challengers (both McLaren and BMW), follow at a very close distance (and the gap is closing).

Let's just hope that the championship will not end too early, and that we will be able to see a good race tomorrow, even on a track like the Hungaroring, where overtaking is almost impossible (Some say even harder than Monaco).

Qualification results are as follows:

01 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:20.899
02 H. Kovalainen McLaren 1:21.140
03 F. Massa Ferrari 1:21.191
04 R. Kubica BMW 1:21.281
05 T. Glock Toyota 1:21.326
06 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:21.516
07 F. Alonso Renault 1:21.698
08 M. Webber Red Bull 1:21.732
09 J. Trulli Toyota 1:21.767
10 N. Piquet jr. Renault 1:22.371
11 S. Vettel Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:20.144
12 J. Button Honda 1:20.332
13 D. Coulthard Red Bull 1:20.332
14 S. Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:20.963
15 N. Rosberg Williams no time
16 N. Heidfeld BMW 1:21.045
17 K. Nakajima Williams 1:21.085
18 R. Barrichello Honda 1:21.332
19 G. Fisichella Force India F1 1:21.670
20 A. Sutil Force India F1 1:22.113