What a lovely rendition of the Hungarian anthem. Very calming.

It's time for the Hungarian national anthem.

The drivers have lined up and a few have their umbrellas out. It's looking like a hot day in Budapest.

Martin Brundle is doing his grid walk on the TV coverage. He's just asked Lewis Hamilton's engineer Pete Bonnington if Hamilton has a throttle issue too.

No issues reported.

Meanwhile, Lando Norris' team are still checking the Brit's car.

"Just confirming, something definitely not right with the throttle. It's not how it should be."

Lando Norris has been on his team radio to say that something is not right with his throttle.

The McLaren engineers are quick to assess the issue on the grid.

Sergio Perez crashed out in Q1 of qualifying yesterday and will start down in 16th today.

He told his team of engineers who will have had to turnaround the car for the grand prix: "Well done, guys. Amazing job. Let's go for a really good race."

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Max Verstappen starts in third spot for the Hungarian Grand Prix, but his advantage in the drivers' championship is still 84 points over second-placed Lando Norris.

Meanwhile, his team-mate Sergio Perez has fallen down to sixth spot after Oscar Piastri picked up points in Silverstone. Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton are just seven (Russell) and eight (Hamilton) points behind the Mexican driver.

McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri lock-out the front row for Sunday's race. If they finish the race in the same position, McLaren could move up into second spot in the constructors' standings.

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Five drivers have won their first F1 race at the Hungaroring.

Damon Hill in 1993, Fernando Alonso in 2003, Jenson Button in 2006, Heikki Kovalainen in 2008 and most recently Esteban Ocon in 2021.

If he was to pass his team-mate, Oscar Piastri could be the sixth driver to claim a maiden win at the Hungaroring.

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Lando Norris will start on pole for today's race in the McLaren, he said: "It's still going to be a tough race, it was a bit of hard work yesterday but it's a lot more hard work today. I'm expecting a tough race, Max is going to be very quick, the Red Bull's probably have the best race pace, so we will keep our head down and work as a team because that's what we have to our advantage at the minute."

On team orders, he added: "We are free to fight, there will probably be certain parts of the race where it's not sensible and we will know that between us. We are starting alongside each other, we are racing drivers, we are a race team, we are here to race.

"We are free to race, that is something we have always done well, but we've always helped each other in the past and kept things clean and that is what we will do today.

"The aim is to try and finish one-two and get the win, but we also need two cars to finish the race, so just be sensible and do what we do like not making a big deal out of it.

"We are on the front row of the grid, it's our first front row as a team since 2012, it's a good achievement for us."

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent at Hungaroring

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This is expected to be a two-stop race and McLaren, Max Verstappen and the Ferraris have exactly the same tyre allocation - two new sets of mediums and one of hards.

Don’t be confused by the graphics showing McLaren having only one new set of mediums; their ‘used’ sets have only been ‘scrubbed’ for a lap, and that is a choice aimed at achieving slightly better performance.Mercedes, by contrast, look to be favouring the hard compound, of which they have two new sets.

Aston Martin, back in the top 10 with both cars after introducing an upgrade, look like they might try the softs, which for most will probably not be the favoured tyre.The undercut - stopping first and gaining a place by going faster on fresh tyres after a stop - is powerful at the Hungaroring. Tyre management will be key - thermal degradation is high.

As ever, the risk in stopping too early is to run out of tyres towards the end of the stint. No one has done more than 10 or so laps on a set of tyres, so the second part of every stint is a journey into the unknown.

The undercut range is around seconds. A pit stop under green flag conditions costs about 21 seconds, 10 seconds under a safety car. DRS is worth 0.35 seconds a lap.

Sunny intervals and light winds are predicted for Sunday's race. with temperatures around 30C.

There is also a low chance of rain during the race.

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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton will start the Hungarian Grand Prix in fifth, he said: "I'm hoping I can get past the Ferrari but if I can then I'm going to give everything to try and hold onto the McLarens.

"I think in true pace they are still one or two tenths ahead of us in the race, so it will be tough. We definitely can't fight in these conditions for a win, but if it rains then of course that changes things. I don't see any rain clouds anywhere near."

The pit lane is now open and the cars make their way on to the Hungaroring circuit.

The last time McLaren had a front-row lockout in qualifying was in 2012.

Lewis Hamilton qualified ahead of then team-mate Jenson Button at the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix.

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McLaren CEO Zak Brown is looking forward to his team starting on the front-row at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

"P1 and P2 for Lando and Oscar in qualifying at the Hungarian GP! Front row locked!" Brown wrote on X on Saturday.

"Mega performance by the whole team. We’re ready to fight for the win tomorrow."

It sounds like we're in for an exciting race.

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Lando Norris claimed his third career pole position in F1 on Saturday.

Can the Brit convert it to his second F1 win?

His first was in Sochi in 2021 and second in Barcelona this year.

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Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent at Hungaroring

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Pole-sitter Lando Norris says he has nothing to prove in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, despite not having won since his maiden victory in Miami in May.

Norris said a one-two on the grid with team-mate Oscar Piastri alongside him and ahead of championship leader Max Verstappen is “definitely once again a good opportunity [to win] for both of us and for us as a team to score some big points, and that’s the target”.

But he rejected suggestions that it was important to lay down a marker after challenging for wins in Imola, Canada, Spain, Austria and the UK but just missing out.

The Briton said: “Every single qualifying is important and every single race is important. It’s not all of a sudden I need to do it and prove my point - I don’t.

“We have done the best we could in every race. We have shown great pace and opportunities.

“I know we have missed out on some and we don’t need to go back into all that stuff.”

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Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent at Hungaroring

Pierre Gasly, who qualified 20th, will start the Hungarian Grand Prix from the pit lane after Alpine decided to add a new battery to his pool of power-train components.

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Championship leader Max Verstappen said he felt like Red Bull is 'chasing' as the Dutchman starts in P3 for Sunday's race. Meanwhile, Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez managed 16th spot after a crash in Q1.

It's not been a good weekend so far for Alpine as their French drivers Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly qualify at the back of the pack.

Lewis Hamilton is in fifth spot, between the two Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc. George Russell was only 17th after he and the team fumbled a wet-dry first session.