Fernando, a chaotic session. And a particularly chaotic finish. You had to wait a while to find out that you were the pole sitter. How does it feel? Are you back in business?
Fernando Alonso: Yeah absolutely. It was quite a stressful qualifying to be honest. In Q1 we had the yellow flag from Toro Rosso I think in turn 13, so we were P15 at that moment and we had to get the lap to go through turn one. We did it at the end and then in the end in Q3 as you said the times were not working, so we were waiting in parc ferme, chatting between us drivers, asking what time you did, what time you did and try to find in which position you were. Now confirmation arrived that we are on pole. A fantastic effort from the team. We put some new stuff on the car at the Nürburgring that worked very well and here we confirmed that we made a step forward. But, obviously, it is not enough. We need to keep working but finally we found the direction to go.

Sebastian, you were a couple of tenths behind Mark in the first part of qualifying. You must be feeling good that you are in front now.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, definitely. It was a pretty difficult start to the weekend. In yesterday's practice I was struggling with the balance of the car, so not yet very happy. But overnight I think we did a good step and also looking very confident for the race, so we should be good tomorrow. But, for sure, I think the biggest challenge no matter if you are first, second or third will be the threat from behind with the cars equipped with KERS. That is big as it is quite a run down to turn one. But to come back to qualifying, first and second qualifying I was always a bit on the edge. Obviously, as Fernando mentioned, sometimes yellow flags and twice I caught traffic in the second timed lap, so it was not ideal but I was confident in the last qualifying. I think in the end it was roughly one tenth. We still don't know exactly the time. We were working around 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, so it is a good result and let's see tomorrow. It should be a good race for us.

Mark, a strong position once again for the Red Bull team. But what about the battle for supremacy between you and Sebastian?
Mark Webber: Oh, it was Seb's day today. He did a clean lap and I made a mistake in turn two and dropped quite a bit of time, so it was his qualifying. But it is a good race tomorrow I think between all of us. Well done Fernando, obviously another Renault engine up here for us on the front and the pole for him. With Brawn, I still don't even know where Jenson qualified. We know that Rubens didn't make it through. Sebastian and I are in a position tomorrow to capitalize on some good points hopefully. The KERS cars will be arriving on the straight somewhere, we don't know where. But that is the way it is. It is unfortunate but it's the same for everyone basically.

Press Conference

Fernando, your third time that you've been fastest in practice here: one other pole, a penalty which left you sixth on the grid, and now your second pole here.
FA: Yeah, absolutely. I think it would be nice to start on pole at any place but here is a special circuit for me anyway. I had my first win here in 2003, so I will always be very happy when I drive in Budapest. It will be interesting tomorrow. Obviously we made a step forward and the car improved in the last two races and we are now a little bit more competitive, maybe not as quick as these two guys but we hope to score some good points tomorrow.

Is that what you're looking for, good points? You don't feel you have a good chance of winning?
FA: Well, we will try but being honest and realistic our target is to get some good points after the last four Grands Prix when we only scored points in Nürburgring, only two points with seventh place. We need some points for the Constructors' championship especially. If we start very heavy, we go around in eighth or ninth position and we finish our chances to get some good points. So we are aggressive this time, we've got what we wanted with the pole or maybe better than we expected and then from now on we will push all through the race and hopefully score some good points and help the team in the Constructors' championship because it's very tight with Williams, Toyota, with McLaren, so we need to go for it.

You suggested a step forward there, do you mean in terms of modifications on the car?
FA: Yeah, we have been introducing new parts all through the championship. New parts are coming for the car at every race but some of them didn't make a huge difference in terms of performance, and it seems that in the last two or three races the new stuff we put on the car is working really well. I'm confident that we have found a good direction to go in terms of developing the car and improving the car and this is the first good result of the championship so far, so hopefully this second half of the season will find us a little bit more in this room, not always fighting for Q3. Hopefully we can be in the top five a little bit more often.

Of course, this is a historic circuit for Renault, isn't it?
FA: Yes, and again today, three Renault engines in the first three positions, so this is a fantastic achievement again from the Renault guys. In China we also had the same top three and this means that they are doing a really good job, so thanks to them as well for this pole position.