Hamilton on pole as McLaren dominate

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Hamilton dominated the session at the Hungaroring, clinching his fourth pole position of the season and 10th of his career after a lap of one minute 20.899 seconds.

The 23-year-old is joined on the front row by McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, the Finn matching the best performance of his career.

On the hottest day of the European season so far, with temperatures hitting 31 degrees centigrade, Hamilton was undoubtedly the coolest customer.

Of the previous nine times he has started from pole, Hamilton has won six races, and he is now on course to become the first Briton to clinch a hat-trick of successive wins since Damon Hill at the start of the 1996 season.

Of the last 10 races at this circuit, the man on pole has won six times, with Hamilton claiming one of those on his debut here last year.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa could only manage third, whilst BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica finally found a degree of qualifying form again, with the pole starting from fourth.

Toyota's Timo Glock, who just two weeks ago was involved in a horror smash in the German Grand Prix, starts a career-high fifth in his Toyota.

An out-of-sorts Kimi Raikkonen starts sixth in his Ferrari, with Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet seventh and 10th for Renault, sandwiching Red Bull's Mark Webber and Jarno Trulli for Toyota.

Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel missed out on the top 10 by a mere 0.013secs so will start 11th - a respectable position given he missed most of practice yesterday with a hydraulic problem.