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Hamilton wins the Hungarian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton scores the first place at the Hungarian Grand Prix over the weekend with a very convincing run. It was almost a Mercedes dream with a 1-2 finish but just as there were 6 laps to go, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen managed to overtake Bottas in an incident-filled race to clinch the podium spots.

After exiting the pits right behind Bottas, Vettel knew that Bottas had worned out tyres and with fresh ultrasoft tyres, the German made his move which led to Bottas crashing into his rear. Fortunately for the German, there were no damages to the Ferrari car so both of them went ahead.

Having now dropped to fourth place, Bottas had to again compete with Ricciardo which ended with another collision that led to him getting a 10-second penalty. Even with the penalty, Bottas finished 5th place whilst Ricciardo took 4th. Pierre Gasly drove an amazing race to finish 6th in the race for the Torro Rosso team.

After the race, Vettel said that he didn’t blame Bottas for what had transpired as he knew that it was a difficult situation to be in and is just thankful that he could continue the race.

“I got the inside track out of Turn 1 and I had DRS so I was quite comfortable into Turn 2 and knowing that I’d got him and I wanted to make sure that I don’t overshoot the braking. But as soon as I hit the brakes and a little bit later, about when I turned in, I felt the contact from behind.”

“I checked in the mirrors, I saw he was there and then obviously I was lucky that I could catch the car and also lucky with the contact that I didn’t get a puncture,” he said.

“The team told me straight away that the tyres look fine. Then I had a feel but the car was fine until the end,” said Vettel.

Here are the full standings of the race:

POS NO DRIVER CAR LAPS TIME/RETIRED PTS
1 44 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 70 1:37:16.427 25
2 5 Sebastian Vettel FERRARI 70 +17.123s 18
3 7 Kimi Räikkönen FERRARI 70 +20.101s 15
4 3 Daniel Ricciardo RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER 70 +46.419s 12
5 77 Valtteri Bottas MERCEDES 70 +60.000s 10
6 10 Pierre Gasly SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO HONDA 70 +73.273s 8
7 20 Kevin Magnussen HAAS FERRARI 69 +1 lap 6
8 14 Fernando Alonso MCLAREN RENAULT 69 +1 lap 4
9 55 Carlos Sainz RENAULT 69 +1 lap 2
10 8 Romain Grosjean HAAS FERRARI 69 +1 lap 1
11 28 Brendon Hartley SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO HONDA 69 +1 lap 0
12 27 Nico Hulkenberg RENAULT 69 +1 lap 0
13 31 Esteban Ocon FORCE INDIA MERCEDES 69 +1 lap 0
14 11 Sergio Perez FORCE INDIA MERCEDES 69 +1 lap 0
15 9 Marcus Ericsson SAUBER FERRARI 68 +2 laps 0
16 35 Sergey Sirotkin WILLIAMS MERCEDES 68 +2 laps 0
17 18 Lance Stroll WILLIAMS MERCEDES 68 +2 laps 0
NC 2 Stoffel Vandoorne MCLAREN RENAULT 49 DNF 0
NC 33 Max Verstappen RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER 5 DNF 0
NC 16 Charles Leclerc SAUBER FERRARI 0 DNF 0