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2015 Hungarian Grand Prix Sunday - Hungarian GP
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"If you can keep him behind early on, his tyres might struggle," Ricciardo is told.
Maldonado gets a drive through penalty for running into Perez.
Ricciardo does a decent job of building a gap through the middle sector of the lap, and despite a noticeably huge difference in straightline speed (aided by DRS), Hamilton can't get through this time.
EDD STRAW: "So how do Rosberg and Mercedes attack Ferrari from here? It's very simple - they have to find some more pace. Just like 2014, the Hungarian GP isn't going as planned for the team. Still some work for Ferrari to do to close this out though."
Grosjean gets a five-second penalty at his next stop for an unsafe release.
Fastest lap for Vettel - 1m26.877s. He leads Raikkonen by 6.1s.
Ricciardo is 16s behind Rosberg, so that will be the next gap Hamilton has to make up once he clears the Red Bull.
Hamilton is already all over the back of Ricciardo for fourth.
Grosjean and Massa are also under investigation for an unsafe release - presumably by Lotus - when the pair ran side-by-side down the pitlane earlier on.
Raikkonen pits, he also takes softs. No front wing change in the end - Ferrari was considering it when he first suffered that damage.
EDD STRAW: "By stopping when he did, Rosberg gets two laps to attack Raikkonen. But given how big the gap was before and looking at Rosberg's times, he's not going to be able to get ahead of him."
Ricciardo is on mediums, so he's not going to be able to fight Hamilton very hard here.
The Perez and Maldonado clash is under investigation by the stewards.
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Fastest lap for Hamilton - 1m27.013s. He's on the tail of Ricciardo as the Red Bull comes out of the pits.
Ricciardo is in as well, as Raikkonen leads out front.
Replays show Maldonado understeered into Perez and the contact sent the Force India up into the air and he spun when it came back down.
Vettel pits from the lead - he takes softs. 3.2s stop.
If Ferrari puts its drivers on softs now, they will pull away from Rosberg in the next stint of the race. But Vettel and Raikkonen will have to take the slower tyre later on.
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"What is he doing? I gave him enough space," says Perez on the radio about that Maldonado clash.
It's a set of mediums for Rosberg, who was more than 10s adrift of Vettel before this stop.
Rosberg pits first of the leading trio.
EDD STRAW: "Good work from Hamilton to emerge ahead of Bottas - in the context of his race, it was really important to re-emerge from the pits ahead. Was touch-and-go based on the gap before his stop."
Hamilton emerges side by side with Bottas, and he runs the Williams driver wide at Turn 1 to hang on to fifth place. Decent recovery work there while he had clear track.
Perez tried to go around the outside of Maldonado at Turn 1 and the Lotus hit the rear of the Force India on the run out of the exit.
Hamilton pits, taking another set of soft tyres.
Vettel has extended his pre-pitstop lead to 3.2s now over Raikkonen. It's all looking good for the German right now on lap 20.
Perez hits Maldonado. He's knocked into the air and spins around at Turn 1.
Ah - not the front wing, it's the onboard camera mounting.
Raikkonen has lost a piece of his front wing over the kerbs at the chicane.
Massa is now down in P16 after his pitstop penalty for causing the aborted start.
Kvyat and Massa have switched to mediums at their stops. Everyone else (to have pitted so far) has stayed on softs.
Kvyat darts out from behind Maldonado and claims P8 at Turn 1.
Yet to pit out front on lap 17:
1 Vettel
2 Raikkonen +2.7
3 Rosberg +9.3
4 Ricciardo +23.5
5 Hamilton +30.3
1 Vettel
2 Raikkonen +2.7
3 Rosberg +9.3
4 Ricciardo +23.5
5 Hamilton +30.3
EDD STRAW: "Rosberg is now 6.6s behind second-placed Raikkonen and 9.3s behind Vettel. We still haven't seen the kind of pace expected from that Mercedes. Interestingly, Hamilton last time round was over half-a-second faster than him. But he is over 20 seconds behind."
Perez comes in the pits for his first stop.
Button is now all over the back of Sainz as they fight over P14.
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Another fastest lap for Vettel - 1m27.913s. He leads by 2.7s over Raikkonen.
EDD STRAW: "Seems that we will be seeing plenty of three-stoppers in this race. Two stops looked, on paper, the stronger, but the way the tyres are behaving many are going for the extra one."
Hamilton has clear track in fifth now, this is his chance to make up some ground and unleash the pace of the Mercedes. He's 30.5s adrift of race leader Vettel.
Sainz is held in the pits and Alonso goes by him.
By: Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, AUTOSPORT staff, Alex Kalinauckas
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