Max Verstappen does not think there was anything he could have done to have made the chequered flag in time at the end of Q3 in Hungary.
Verstappen appeared to make a timing error on his out-lap at the end of the session, meaning he did not cross the line in time to get a final lap in. The teenager had been one of the last to emerge from the pit lane, meaning the Red Bull driver was backed up by those in front trying to find space for a lap of their own.
"I think it was a bit unfortunate to miss out for one or two seconds because everybody was backing off in the last sector, of course, and I was the last car," said Verstappen, who finished the afternoon fourth on the grid. "So I wanted to leave space because, once you are stuck behind them, you are not going to improve your laptime anyway.
"They told me to speed up, but I was stuck. It's a bit unfortunate, but we are in the second row, so everything is possible for tomorrow."
Had Verstappen made it across the line, it is likely he would have benefitted from the yellow flag further up the road which forced most - except polesitter Nico Rosberg - to slow down when there was time to be found on the drying track. Verstappen thinks his own time would have been close to Rosberg's.
"I think that even if I made it I wouldn't have improved my laptime because there was the yellow flag," he said.
"Once I got the [chequered] flag I thought I'd just keep pushing and see what happens and I was straight away half a second faster in the first sector, so if that counted I think I would have been very close to Nico."
At time of publication, Rosberg's pole position was in doubt for his failure to slow for the flag.