Lewis Hamilton has sailed into the championship lead by beating his teammate in an imperious display of dominance at Budapest’s Hungaroring.

The 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix starting grid was rocked by regulatory farce when the stewards were forced to deliberate over the application of the 107 per cent rule after Saturday’s rain-affected qualifying session.

Nico Rosberg has survived a stewards investigation that risked seeing him stripped of pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Carlos Sainz sixth place was one of the many surprises of the arduous qualifying session in Hungary, but the Toro Rosso driver is at a loss to explain how it happened.