For so long this season Ferrari have looked to take their place at the front of the grid, but when they finally did so at the Hungarian Grand Prix, it was with an extraordinary contrast in fortunes. Lewis Hamilton was left berating his performance as “useless” and doubting his own ability as he was knocked out in Q2 before his teammate, Charles Leclerc, celebrated taking the Scuderia’s first pole of the campaign.
While Ferrari will be buoyed up by Leclerc’s remarkable run in a tight contest at the Hungaroring – where he beat the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris into second and third and with the top four cars separated by four-hundredths of a second – it was a disconsolate Hamilton that captured the attention.
