Formula 1: Fernando Alonso clinched the 17th pole of his career, edging out McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton in a controversial qualifying session for tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix.
Reigning double world champion Alonso pipped Hamilton in the dying seconds, setting a time of one minute 19.674 seconds for the 4.384 km Hungaroring circuit.
But for whatever reason, Alonso was held after changing onto fresh tyres for one last flying lap, leaving Hamilton queueing directly behind him and unable to set one final quick time of his own.
Team boss Ron Dennis said: "It is a matter to be discussed within the team, and we will do so later."
Hamilton had been comfortably quickest in both Q3 and Q2, the 22-year-old setting an incredible time of 1:19.301 in the latter with the cars at their lowest on fuel.
He was also fastest in Q1 until Alonso's late flyer, and perhaps will be a frustrated man at missing out on what would have been his third pole position of the season.
The McLarens at least have the cushion of Nick Heidfeld behind them, with the BMW Sauber driver third ahead of Kimi Raikkonen in his Ferrari.
The top 10 is completed by Nico Rosberg for Williams, the Toyota of Ralf Schumacher, Robert Kubica for BMW Sauber, the Renault of Giancarlo Fisichella, and then Jarno Trulli and Mark Webber for Toyota and Red Bull Racing.
Felipe Massa suffered his worst qualifying performance since the opening race of the season in Australia, with the Brazilian starting 14th.
The 26-year-old, who has started on pole in four of the previous 10 races this season and is just 11 points behind Hamilton in the drivers' standings, clearly had a problem with his Ferrari.
Massa was forced to abort one quick lap, pitting instead for fresh tyres, and as he exited his car just ground to a halt down the pit lane, underlining Ferrari's reliability problems this season.
After being rescued by his pit crew, he was soon out again, but he failed to show any improvement and will struggle tomorrow to even finish on the podium as it is a notoriously difficult circuit on which to overtake.