Lewis Hamilton wins the Hungarian Grand Prix

McLaren´s Lewis Hamilton has won the Hungarian Grand Prix, after a nail-biter of a race.

It was long expected that Lewis Hamilton would cruise to victory, as he made a clean start from Romain Grosjean, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. He quickly managed to get some air to Grosjean, who showed speed and a power performance in second place. Vettel tried a move on Grosjean, but the Frenchman stayed on his line, cleverly, since he knew he is not the fastest starter. And as effect, Button took Vettel, as Alonso was P5 after Turn 1.

For long Hamilton stayed out in front, but the gap to Grosjean was rarely more than a few seconds. However, the French Lotus driver got a little over-excited at times, just as he was about to start an attack on Hamilton, he made a small error and lost time. This happened a few times in the middle of the race, until the final rounds of pit stops.

Kimi Raikkonen had started a mission from Lap 1. To go fast and stay fast. Simply put. Lap after lap, Kimi chipped away at Hamilton´s lead, a tenth here and two tenths there. Kimi Raikkonen won a position after the first rounds of pit stops, and after the final pit stop, in which he won three positions, also due to Button being held up by a superb driving Bruno Senna, Kimi rejoined in P2, but was soon able to chase down Hamilton in front. With tyres five laps older than Kimi´s, Hamilton looked to be in trouble towards the end. And it was clear from Kimi´s hard charging effort, late braking, super fast times and devil may care attitude, that Hamilton would not get this easy.

But Hamilton managed to get the very best out of the car, and indeed himself, and took his second race win of the season. A well deserved win, after a stunning performance from the drivers today. So close and so tight and again the tyres played the lead role.

Kimi Raikkonen finished second, Romain Grosjean third, Sebastian Vettel fourth, Fernando Alonso fifth, Jenson Button sixth, Bruno Senna seventh, Mark Webber eighth, Felipe Massa ninth and Nico Rosberg tenth.

Pos.	Driver	Points
1.	Fernando Alonso	164
2.	Mark Webber	124
3.	Sebastian Vettel	122
4.	Lewis Hamilton	117
5.	Kimi Räikkönen	116
6.	Nico Rosberg	77
7.	Jenson Button	76
8.	Romain Grosjean	76
9.	Sergio Perez	47
10.	Kamui Kobayashi	33
11.	Pastor Maldonado	29
12.	Michael Schumacher	29
13.	Paul di Resta	27
14.	Felipe Massa	25
15.	Bruno Senna	24
16.	Nico Hülkenberg	19
17.	Jean-Eric Vergne	4
18.	Daniel Ricciardo	2

 

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time
1.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	no time
2.	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus	+1.032
3.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	+10.518
4.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	+11.614
5.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	+26.653
6.	Jenson Button	McLaren	+30.243
7.	Bruno Senna	Williams	+33.899
8.	Mark Webber	Red Bull	+34.458
9.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	+38.350
10.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+51.234
11.	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	+57.283
12.	Paul di Resta	Force India	+1:02.887
13.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	+1:03.606
14.	Sergio Perez	Sauber	+1:04.494
15.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	+1 Lap
16.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	+1 Lap
17.	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	+1 Lap
18.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	+2 Laps
19.	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	+2 Laps
20.	Charles Pic	Marussia	+2 Laps
21.	Timo Glock	Marussia	+3 Laps
22.	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	+3 Laps
Did not finish
23.	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	+9 Laps
24.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	+11 Laps