If anyone was to profess to expecting anything other than McLaren domination in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, then they're simply telling porkies; Charles Leclerc was completely blindsided by the revelation he'd secured his first Formula 1 pole of the year. He was quite content in his aim to get a clean lap banked, as the drivers felt a perceptible shift in wind direction; as it turned out, his 1m15.372s was good enough to do the job.
Sure, it was a great lap in ever-changing conditions, but his pole also came as McLaren's pace from Q2, which dipped below the 1m15s barrier and into the realms of the 1m14s, evaporated into the Hungarian winds.
