Immediately after qualifying for the 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix, Red Bull team chief Christian Horner questioned the legitimacy of Nico Rosberg’s pole winning lap, set amid a yellow flag situation in the dying moments of Q3.
The Mercedes driver set the quickest time on his final run despite the presence of double-waved yellow flags due to Fernando Alonso’s spin exiting Turn 9.
The incident affected the fast laps that Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo were on at that point in the session.
Horner said to Sky Sports immediately afterwards, “One thing I couldn’t understand which I need to check is Rosberg was behind Daniel, and managed to get a purple middle sector. I don’t know if they had it cleared by the time he got there….”
When told that the Mercedes driver had indeed lifted, Horner laughed and replied, “With that sort of laptime? That’s down to the stewards to decide.”
Meanwhile Mercedes F1 chief Toto Wolff said the team’s data proved the championship leader lifted sufficiently at the crucial moment.
“[Rosberg] had a big lift into the yellow zone, lost quite some time. But then at the end the yellow zone was gone. It should be OK from our data,” Wolff told Sky.
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