With what appeared to be a little gamesmanship - Fernando held up Lewis to snatch pole in the dying seconds of qualifying. Or was Fernando unaware of Lewis?!

Lewis put himself on provisional pole with a few minutes to go. Fernando was in the pits and free to leave to make his final bid for pole and inexplicably delayed his departure for about 10 seconds - delaying Lewis and preventing him from taking his final lap and attempt at gaining pole.

Ron looked a little upset by this and refused to discuss the matter on TV immediately after the event - but you can assume his dialogue with Fernando will be somewhat heated.

How driven will Lewis be tomorrow to redress the balance? :) - should be a good race.

Heidfeld underlined BMW's improving performance pipping Kimi for 3rd - with Felipe not even making Q3 after a disastrous Q2 where a car problem prevented him from doing anything other than 14th.

Qualifying for Hungarian GP

1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.674 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.781 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:20.259 22 4 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:20.4105 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:20.6326 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:20.7147 Robert Kubica BMW 1:20.8768 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:21.079 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:21.206 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:21.25611 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault12 Heikki Kovalainen Renault13 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota14 Felipe Massa Ferrari 15 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda16 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari17 Jenson Button Honda18 Rubens Barrichello Honda  19 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda  20 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari  21 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 22 Sakon Yamamoto Spyker-Ferrari