Hungarian GP pole position winner Sebastian Vettel described his Red Bull car as being "a pleasure to drive" after the team destroyed the rest of the field in the qualifying session to record their sixth 1-2 grid positions of the year.
Vettel scorched to his seventh pole position from the twelve races in 2010 so far in the qualifying session on Saturday, recording his fourth pole position start in a row.
And after the session Vettel, who will start alongside his team mate Mark Webber in the Hungarian GP tomorrow, lavished praise on the Red Bull team for building such a "wonderful" car.
"All weekend we felt very comfortable and we've been able to improve [the car] another bit overnight," Vettel grinned in the post-qualifying press conference.
"I got on the radio to the boys and I told them that it was their moment. They built this wonderful car, which is such a pleasure to drive. I'm looking forward to racing tomorrow."
He added: "It was actually quite a difficult session. I didn't have a smooth run with the option [tyres] in Q2 and there was not too much we could do with the car, but in Q3 I was more confident. Hopefully we'll have a good start tomorrow and a great race."
When asked why the Red Bull team was so good at the Hungaroring, he shrugged that: "The track just suits us. We did the best we could and we can be very proud of this."
He added that he would aim to make a better start to the race on Sunday, after throwing away the lead of the last two grands prix with poor getaways.
"We found the problem from last weekend where I made bad start, so had to decide which way to go," Vettel explained, "But I'm confident we can have a normal start and at least able to defend the position.
"Usually in Hungary it's important to be on clean side. I said last year, when I was second and Alonso was on pole, that if I'd been on the clean side, it would have been a difficult race. For sure with overtaking so difficult here, the start will be very important."
His team mate Mark Webber, who will start alongside Vettel, shrugged that it had simply not been meant to be in his attempts to wrest pole from the German.
"I did my best," he shrugged, "It was probably not the cleanest lap in the first one, but that is the way it goes. He deserved pole today.
"It was not my day today, but I'm still on front row. The guys have done a phenomenal job today. Looking forward to tomorrow."
He added that: "It was pretty similar to Barcelona here. We knew it would be between both of us. Whoever was going to do the quickest lap was probably going to get pole."
He also admitted that the race itself may not be the most entertaining, saying: "It is going to be an interesting start and after that, you know with these regulations, the race can be interesting in terms of trying to stay awake. We'll see how the start goes and then see if we can stay awake."
Third placed man Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, said that he would hope to make up places off the start line in his efforts to take the fight to the dominant Red Bulls tomorrow.
"I think we found a big gap between Red Bull and us this weekend," Alonso grimaced, "We maximised our potential today. We did our job to be the best of the rest.
"Congratulations to Red Bull, they have dominated the weekend and deserve this front row. Hopefully tomorrow we can make it difficult in the race because so far it has been too easy."
He added: "The start we know is important. We know at this track is very difficult to overtake. We know the strategy is important as well. The start, the first corner and the first lap is 60-70 percent of the final result.
"Hopefully we can make a good start like in Hockenheim, gain a position and fight a bit."
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