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Formula 1 Hungarian GP

2015 Hungarian Grand Prix Sunday - Hungarian GP

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Vettel responds to a quick lap from Raikkonen by upping his own pace, extending the gap between the Ferraris to 2.5s.

Rosberg is 8.9s off the lead now.
Hulkenberg pits ahead of Hamilton.
Massa and Grosjean go side-by-side in the pitlane and the Lotus driver prevails on the run down to Turn 1.
Verstappen also comes in.
Low 1m28s for the Ferraris, and a 1m29.0s for Rosberg. He's falling back at a rapid rate right now.
Massa pits - he has to serve his five second penalty.
Bottas will be looking to get back ahead of Ricciardo by stopping earlier, but he's exited the pits behind Maldonado. That's surely going to ruin his chances.
Kvyat pits too.
Bottas pits, having just been passed for fourth by Ricciardo.
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"Carlos will get one more chance," Verstappen is told as they both sit behind Massa.
The gap between the leading Ferraris has stabilised at 2.2s. Vettel and Raikkonen are matching each other's times out front.
Hamilton is now up to P8, but he's 30.5s off the lead.
Hamilton dives down the inside of Perez at Turn 1.
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Verstappen exclaims that he's "really getting held up now" by his team-mate Sainz, who had said he's lining up for a pass on Massa.
Alonso is about to join the Massa, Sainz and Verstappen fight.
Hamilton has a big look at Perez going into Turns 1 and 2, trying to get the Mexican driver to make a mistake.
EDD STRAW: "Rosberg is now 4.5 seconds behind Raikkonen. That's far more than he needs to be to protect the tyres from being damaged by being in too much turbulence. It could either be that he's taking it very easy and has no worries about closing back up at will, or he's struggling. Seems too big a gap to allow though."
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"Nico, unless we can close the gap to Raikkonen..."

"Don't tell me again, I'm trying."

Rosberg cuts his engineer off before he can finish that command.
Sainz and Verstappen have closed up on Massa.
Vettel's lead is up to 2.3s over Raikkonen. Rosberg is still falling back, now 5.9s off the lead.
Hamilton locks up at Turn 2 as he closes on Perez.
Lap 11:

1 Vettel
2 Raikkonen
3 Rosberg
4 Bottas
5 Ricciardo
6 Hulkenberg
7 Kvyat
8 Perez
9 Hamilton
10 Massa
Replays show that Hamilton and Massa briefly touched rear tyres.
Ricciardo also got past Hulkenberg at Turn 1.
Hamilton goes around the outside of Massa at Turn 1.
Ricciardo is already 1.7s clear of his teammate as he closes on Hulkenberg.
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"Ricciardo is on a different strategy. Let Ricciardo through please." There was a sweary reply from Kvyat, but it seems he obeyed the order.
Rosberg is sitting 2.8s behind Raikkonen at the moment. The Mercedes driver must be hanging back to stay out of the dirty air and protect his tyres. If so, that's a bit of a shame, we'd much rather see him have a go at racing the Ferraris.
Ricciardo is told he's got to make it count after Kvyat let him by.
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Merhi reports that he has a problem with his headrest. He's told to pit in order to change it for a new one, and does so.
EDD STRAW: "Hamilton's current challenge is to get himself back up to fourth. He'll probably need things to fall his way to do better than that. Right now, he's down in 10th and already 17 seconds behind third-placed Rosberg. But he's losing time every lap in traffic and will know how important it is to make up some places on track soon."
Ricciardo gets past Kvyat.
Lead gaps:

1 Vettel
2 Raikkonen +2.2
3 Rosberg +4.9
4 Bottas +13.6
5 Hulkenberg +15.5
Kvyat's front wing is flapping about to a significant degree as he goes down the pit straight.
Bottom half:

11 Sainz
12 Verstappen
13 Alonso
14 Button
15 Grosjean
16 Ericsson
17 Maldonado
18 Nasr
19 Stevens
20 Merhi
Massa and Hamilton are closing on Perez as the Red Bull drivers have pulled away from the Force India.
Lap 7:

1 Vettel
2 Raikkonen
3 Rosberg
4 Bottas
5 Hulkenberg
6 Kvyat
7 Ricciardo
8 Perez
9 Massa
10 Hamilton
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Kvyat replies to that call by saying he's being held up by Hulkenberg and is trying to get past.
Hamilton is 19 seconds off the lead after six.
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Is it 2010-13 again? Vettel is charging out front, his latest fastest lap is a 1m27.976s. He leads by two seconds.

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

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