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 The Briton's best lap was 0.098 quicker than second placed Mercedes
team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg, with the German's car coming
to a halt at the end of the pit lane in the final minute.
The German climbed out before helping his mechanics roll the car
back.
"It seemed like the engine stalled," Mercedes technical head Paddy
Lowe told the BBC.
"We don't know more than that at moment, but it was not planned. We
found a few issues last night which we were able to correct and he
started in a bit better place today and we saw that in the lap
times."
Hamilton, who set a best lap of one minute 22.997 seconds, has won
four times previously in Budapest and will be chasing his ninth pole
position in 10 races. He leads closest rival Rosberg by 17 points.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was third fastest, but Finnish team mate
Kimi Raikkonen was sidelined by a water leak and was only 16th,
while Russian Daniil Kvyat was fourth for Red Bull.
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Force India got both their cars back out on track after sitting out
Friday's second practice following Mexican Sergio Perez's big crash
in the opening session.
Nico Hulkenberg was sixth fastest while Perez was 15th on the
timesheets.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Amlan Chakraborty)
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