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Formula 1 Hungarian GP

2015 Hungarian Grand Prix Sunday - Hungarian GP

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Replays show that Hulkenberg's front wing just came away and went immediately under the front wheels. He hit the brakes but the car went straight across the run-off area and into the barriers at Turn 1.
Hamilton must be licking his lips here. Raikkonen has a power issue, and Rosberg has struggled for pace. If he can clear them quickly, he'll fancy a shot at Vettel, surely.

And what of Ricciardo on the softs in fifth?
The cars filter through the pitlane behind the safety car to allow marshals to clear the debris from Hulkenberg's front wing failure.
So, assuming the lapped cars are moved out of the way, we're going to have a full-on fight for this GP victory between Vettel, Raikkonen, Rosberg, Hamilton and Ricciardo.

Raikkonen isn't going to be a factor though, as his MGU-K is still out of action.
EDD STRAW: "If you were Mercedes and chasing the best-possible result, you would ideally want Hamilton to be ahead of Rosberg. Rosberg's pace has been surprisingly poor throughout the race. First thing will be to get them both past Raikkonen though, which should happen very easily given his problem."
EDD STRAW: "It will be worth watching out for Ricciardo at the restart. He's on a set of softs, while the four ahead of him are on the mediums. That should allow him to make a nuisance of himself."
Rosberg didn't need to take the mediums for this stint, but, as we heard on the radio earlier, he seemed to want to stick with them.
Kvyat was showered with carbon fibre from Hulkenberg's shattered front wing.
Replays show Hulkenberg's front wing just failed - spectacularly.
Raikkonen has also pitted for mediums. So we have the Ferraris and the Mercedes drivers on the harder tyre, and Ricciardo's Red Bull in P5 on the softs.
Yellow flag
The safety car (proper) is deployed now, so everyone is going to bunch up. Let's see how it shakes out.
Raikkonen lost 3.9s to Vettel on the last green flag lap before this incident.
Vettel pits. He takes the mediums for the first time in this race.
Rosberg stays on the mediums. Hamilton switches to them because he has to, and Ricciardo moves back to the softs.
Hulkenberg was swiftly out of the car, which is being craned away.
Ricciardo has come in as well.
Hulkenberg was minus his front wing before he hit the barrier.
Rosberg and Hamilton pit, the Ferraris have not.
We have a virtual safety car.
Yellow flag
Hulkenberg hits the barrier at Turn 1.
EDD STRAW: "Raikkonen's laptimes have dropped significantly - last time round he did a 1m30.511s, which is not far off three seconds slower than Vettel. This is a problem that needs to be solved quickly or he's going to be powerless to hold on to second as the race progresses."
Raikkonen loses another 1.5s in sector 1 to Vettel.
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"What is this issue?" asks Raikkonen.

"We have an issue with the MGU-K."
Raikkonen loses 2.8s to Vettel on that lap, and Alonso passes him into Turn 1.
Raikkonen's problems are illustrated by the fact Alonso's (lapped) McLaren is keeping up with him.
EDD STRAW: "Rosberg has got down into the 1m27s bracket for the first time - the last two laps have been down there. He's been quite erratic in this stint, more than the traffic can explain. Needs to continue to string those laps together."
Hulkenberg is just over 0.8s behind Bottas - who has had a largely anonymous race, other than contact with Ricciardo at the start, so far today.
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"I think I have some odd sound and I'm losing power," says Raikkonen.
Raikkonen's Ferrari doesn't sound well.
Rosberg is now easing away from Hamilton again as he's clear of the traffic. The gap is up to 6.7s between the Mercedes team-mates.
Kvyat is all over the back of Hulkenberg in the fight for P7.
Vettel is still easing away from Raikkonen - his lead is up to 9.1s now.

Rosberg has fallen to 17.5s adrift of Raikkonen.
Rosberg is 0.3s faster than Hamilton as the Briton catches the traffic now as well.
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Alonso stopped because he had a rear-right puncture.
Rosberg loses two seconds to Hamilton thanks to these backmarkers. He's only 5s ahead of his team-mate now.
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Rosberg is told that he needs to find more pace.
Rosberg has only passed one of those cars on this lap - Maldonado gets out of the way.
Alonso pits from P9.
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Rosberg suggests that he wants to be on mediums again when he stops, but "the pitwall is not inclined to do that".
Rosberg has that three-car battle to negotiate on this lap. Nasty amount of traffic.

By: Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, AUTOSPORT staff, Alex Kalinauckas

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