Even as he was recording his 77th
pole position, there were few who thought that the British driver would
maintain that position 24 hours later. But a nerve display from Ferrari allowed
Hamilton to fairly cruise to his 67th win, sharing the podium with chief rival
Sebastian Vettel and team mate Kimi Raikkonen.
It had looked set to be a Mercedes
one-two with six laps left to go. But Vettel used DRS to sweep past Valtteri
Bottas into Turn 1. When the Finn tried to fight back into Turn 2, he
locked up and clipped Vettel. The German continued, pulling Raikkonen through
with him, as Bottas dropped to fourth with a damaged front wing.
Three
laps later, Bottas hit Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull as the Australian
tried to make a move into Turn 1 to mark a messy end of the race for the Finn,
who ended up in fifth – a position he retained even with the 10-second time
penalty he received post-race for his role in the incident. Ricciardo, on the
other hand, will have been delighted to finish fourth, having started the race
down in P12.
Pierre
Gasly drove a great Grand Prix to finish in sixth for Toro Rosso, comfortably
leading home Kevin Magnussen in the Haas, while Fernando Alonso gave McLaren
something to smile about, coming home P8. The Renault of Carlos Sainz and the
Haas of Romain Grosjean rounded out the top 10. Up at the front though, it was
Hamilton who claimed his sixth Hungarian Grand Prix victory, which puts the
Hungaroring joint with Montreal’s Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve as the British
driver’s top hunting ground on the F1 calendar.
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