{"id":21480,"date":"2013-07-28T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T10:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/hamilton-edges-vettel-for-pole-in-hungary\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T10:25:45","slug":"hamilton-edges-vettel-for-pole-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/hamilton-edges-vettel-for-pole-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton edges Vettel for pole in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29080217@N05\/3622171035\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7a1a7_3622171035_3716419691_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Hamilton (Photo credit: Dwonderwall)<\/p>\n<p>Budapest \u2013 British driver Lewis Hamilton will start from pole position for the fourth time this season after edging Sebastian Vettel in qualifying at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/a-few-interesting-hungarian-grand-prix-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes driver sounded stunned when his team announced over the race radio that he had beaten three-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel right at the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really surprised,\u201d said Hamilton, who is looking for his first race win of the season. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/the-pressure-is-on-at-hungarian-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\">steep hill to climb tomorrow with these tires<\/a> and these conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton clocked 1 minute, 19.388 seconds, just ahead of Vettel\u2019s best lap of 1:19.426.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t much missing. Lewis did a really good job,\u201d said Vettel, who has never won in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s stupid to sit here and say \u2018We should have done this and we should have done that.\u2019 I could be on pole, but still I think it puts us in a great place for tomorrow.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/formula-1\/news\/211476-hungarian-grand-prix-lewis-hamilton-edges-sebastian-vettel-to-pole\" target=\"_blank\">ndtv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/a-few-interesting-hungarian-grand-prix-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7a1a7_188831232_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/a-few-interesting-hungarian-grand-prix-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\">A few interesting Hungarian Grand Prix facts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/830e8_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton (Photo credit: Dwonderwall) Budapest \u2013 British driver Lewis Hamilton will start from pole position for the fourth time this season after edging Sebastian Vettel in qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday. The Mercedes driver sounded stunned when his team announced over the race radio that he had beaten three-time Formula One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}