Chaos here in Hungary. In the closing minute of qualifying - the critical minute - all the timing screens went down, both here at the circuit and online. So no one - including the teams - had any idea where they'd finished.
The drivers all crammed into the FIA garage. Press delegate Alexandra Schieren was shouting into her radio, Fernando Alonso was going around asking each driver if they knew their times, and Sebastian Vettel looked baffled. Bernie Ecclestone popped in. Did he know the times? The Bolt shrugged. Hilarious.
Alonso and Vettel seemed to work out among themselves that they were 1 and 2. Mark Webber had to be grabbed from the press pen, because he didn't realize he was third. A welcome surprise.
Lewis Hamilton is fourth, Nico Rosberg fifth, and Heikki Kovalainen sixth. They should be pleased with that. Kimi Raikkonen is seventh, Jenson Button eighth - not good at all for him - Kazuki Nakajima ninth and Felipe Massa, who was unable to run in Q3 because he's en route to hospital, takes tenth.
We'll have to see if he's fit to race tomorrow. We have been told he is "ok".
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