Nov 20, 2024; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; McLaren Team driver Oscar Piastri (81) during media availalbilities at Las Vegas Circuit. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

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Oscar Piastri Feels Surprised After Hungary GP Qualifying Results!

Oscar Piastri goes dumbfounded after Ferrari beats his McLaren in qualifying today

Nov 20, 2024; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; McLaren Team driver Oscar Piastri (81) during media availalbilities at Las Vegas Circuit. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

The Formula 1 season is already 13 races old. In the 14th round of the championship, being held at the Hungaroring, McLarens were looking strong enough to claim the pole. After all, the Papaya cars had made a clean sweep in all three practice sessions. Throughout the qualifying, the McLarens were basically dictating the pace. However, to everyone’s surprise the pole starter for tomorrow is Charles Leclerc in a Scuderia Ferrari.

Charles Leclerc was minutely ahead of the McLarens claiming provisional pole for today’s session. In fact, the Monegasque couldn’t believe himself and his performance. The Papaya cars behind him however, could not catch him on time and were relegated to P2 and P3 respectively. The entire results from Friday and Saturday’s practice session was to no avail in the changing conditions during the qualifying session.

Oscar Piastri Did Not Expect Today’s Qualifying Results

McLaren is the highlight of the 2025 season. The team has been butchering the competition with poles and victories this season. The leader of their charge is Oscar Piastri. The Aussie who won his first race in Hungary last year is competing in Hungary this year as a championship leader.

The past weekends showed how overpowering the McLarens have been in this season. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are the only drivers who have been on the front row and winning the podiums. At this point, the championship battle is a intra-team fight between McLaren drivers.

After a clean sweep for McLaren in Free Practice, it’s Charles Leclerc on pole for Ferrari. 😳 #F1 pic.twitter.com/4Zkh2Dpv7H
— Motorsport.com (@Motorsport) August 2, 2025

Naturally, Oscar Piastri felt like he would be on pole once again. Earlier on, Piastri commented about his confidence in winning the championship. The seven-time-race winner in 2025 was left speechless after what happened in Hungary GP Qualifying. In his post-race interview, Oscar did not hold back his words at all.

Piastri claims that he did not expect a Ferrari on the front row today. It seems that the McLaren was rather looking forward to another fight between him and his teammate for leading the race tomorrow. Nevertheless, Oscar Piastri was still the faster McLaren today. He lost out to Charles Leclerc by only 0.026s.

Hungarian GP Qualifying Gaps Visualized 🇭🇺😳 pic.twitter.com/SHGlrBq8t4
— JUST FORMULACAR (@justformulacar) August 2, 2025

The wind direction and cool track brought forth many changes in the final part of qualifying. Charles Leclerc’s pole lap was nowhere close to the McLaren drivers’ best laps in Q2. But, luckily the Monegasque was able to put his car in the right place at the right time. The race is going to be one which fans will looks forward to tomorrow after an exciting end to qualifying today.

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