Formula One: An on-fire Lewis Hamilton led a McLaren one-two in qualifying for the first time this year ahead of tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hamilton dominated the session at the Hungaroring, clinching his fourth pole position of the season and 10th of his career after a lap of one minute 20.899 seconds.
The 23-year-old is joined on the front row by McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, the Finn matching the best performance of his career.
On the hottest day of the European season so far, with temperatures hitting 31 degrees centigrade, Hamilton was undoubtedly the coolest customer.
Of the previous nine times he has started from pole, Hamilton has won six races, and he is now on course to become the first Briton to clinch a hat-trick of successive wins since Damon Hill at the start of the 1996 season.
Of the last 10 races at this circuit, the man on pole has won six times, with Hamilton claiming one of those on his debut here last year.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa could only manage third, whilst BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica finally found a degree of qualifying form again, with the pole starting from fourth.
Toyota's Timo Glock, who just two weeks ago was involved in a horror smash in the German Grand Prix, starts a career-high fifth in his Toyota.
An out-of-sorts Kimi Raikkonen starts sixth in his Ferrari, with Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet seventh and 10th for Renault, sandwiching Red Bull's Mark Webber and Jarno Trulli for Toyota.
Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel missed out on the top 10 by a mere 0.013secs so will start 11th - a respectable position given he missed most of practice yesterday with a hydraulic problem.
Jenson Button conjured his best qualifying performance for five races, on a track where he won two years ago, and is 12th on the grid in his Honda.
Fellow Briton David Coulthard is 13th for Red Bull, followed by Sebastien Bourdais in his Toro Rosso and Williams' Nico Rosberg who failed to post a time in Q2 due to his own hydraulics issue.
Nick Heidfeld will start from a season-low 16th just at a time when he was starting to think he had conquered his qualifying problems.
However, the BMW Sauber driver appeared to be baulked in the dying moments of his final hot lap in Q1 which could result in a protest from his team.
For the third time in four races Kazuki Nakajima failed to make it into Q2 in his Williams and will start 17th.
As for Honda's Rubens Barrichello, who started the year with a run of seven grands prix qualifying for Q2, it is now four consecutive races he has failed to escape from Q1 as the Brazilian is 18th.
The Force India duo of Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil are again at the back of the grid, with the veteran edging his young German team-mate into the final position.
A happy Hamilton said: "It's about time Heikki and I started one and two, so I'm very pleased.
"The car was great, but you can never be too comfortable, although I feel safe in the position I'm in.
"We're both on great strategies for the race to push for the win, and I aim to do that.
"It would be great to have a one-two in the race. The team deserve it, and I feel Heikki and I do too. We've been working hard for it."
Kovalainen, who on Thursday was confirmed as a McLaren driver for next year, said: "The car has been feeling strong the last few races.
"We have been improving the package more and more, which is a great effort from the team, and tomorrow should be quite an interesting race."
In contrast to Hamilton, a grumpy looking Massa remarked: "I was not happy with any of my laps in Q3.
"I just couldn't do a great lap as I managed in Q1 and Q2, but we are still pretty strong. We are there and I feel I can push these guys (Hamilton and Kovalainen)."