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Formula 1 Hungarian GP

Hungarian Grand Prix race day

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Vandoorne pulls over at the exit of Turn 1 - he's out of the race.
Yellow flag
There's a VSC for the slowing McLaren.
Crash
Vandoorne is slowing!
Stroll has pitted to switch from the mediums to the ultrasofts, so all the drivers have now made at least one stop. The Williams driver is now last, 17s behind team-mate Sirotkin.
OK, Vettel is back on it - he's just done his two personal best laps of the race, and is back within 1.3s of Bottas.
Replays show that Grosjean was so angry at being shuffled down the order that he ran off the track at Turn 12. That won't show them, Romain.
Radio Comms
Grosjean not happy to find out he's now out of the points after the McLaren drivers ran long in the first stint. "F*ck, how is that possible," he asks.
Vettel just doesn't seem to have any pace at the moment - he's fallen 2.8s away from Bottas, and is 13.7s off Vettel up front.
Stopwatch
Ricciardo is doing what you'd expect Ricciardo to do on new ultrasofts: a new fastest lap of 1m20.012s. But with a 14s gap to Raikkonen ahead, can he do anything more than finish fifth?
Ocon has used his fresher ultrasoft tyres to repass Perez for 14th in the intra-Force India battle.
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Lead gaps on lap 45 of 70: 1 Hamilton; 2 Bottas +9.1s; 3 Vettel +10.9s; 4 Raikkonen +25.7s; 5 Ricciardo +40.4s
Raikkonen is back up to fourth thanks to Ricciardo's pitstop. He's setting very fast times, but has a 16s gap to the Bottas/Vettel fight.
Vettel has fallen 1.9s away from Bottas now.
Pit stop
Ricciardo finally makes his first pitstop after lap 44, swapping to ultrasofts and rejoining fifth.
Radio Comms
"If Vettel gets by, he's going to be a lot quicker, right?" Hamilton asks Mercedes. The team replies that Bottas is on very old softs and Vettel's on brand new ultrasofts and the Ferrari can't get past the other Mercedes...
Radio Comms
Sainz scolds Renault for being "a bit impatient at the pitstop - could have stayed out". Perhaps he should have defied the call?
Vettel is lurking within DRS range of Bottas but struggling to get close enough to actually try anything.
Another fastest lap from Raikkonen, a 1m21.278s, getting his gap to Ricciardo down to 8.8s.
Gasly, the top Class B runner, is circulating virtually himself, 22-seconds behind Raikkonen and 11s ahead of Magnussen.
And Vandoorne has rejoined in ninth place, which means both McLarens have jumped Sainz, Grosjean, Hartley and Hulkenberg and are legitimately in contention for points.
Stopwatch
Raikkonen puts in a new fastest lap of 1m21.381s. He's now 10.9s behind Ricciardo, who has to pit still, and is 20s off the Bottas/Vettel battle.
Will Bottas want to stop again as Raikkonen has? He's done 25 laps on his current softs, but Ricciardo is still making his work after starting on them 40 laps ago.
Vandoorne pits from what was eighth.
Alonso has rejoined in ninth on the medium tyres ahead of Sainz and Grosjean in ninth place, while Ocon is now 15th and behind Perez, who was stuck behind the other Force India in the early stages.
Vettel is immediately right up with Bottas and attacking hard for second place with 30 laps still to go.
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Lead gaps now: 1 Hamilton (1 stop); 2 Bottas +8.3s (1 stop); 3 Vettel +8.8s (1 stop); 4 Ricciardo +18.1s (0 stops); 5 Raikkonen +31.2s (2 stops)
Ocon is also in.
Bottas had seemed to be drifting away completely, but banged in the two fastest laps of the race so far just as Vettel's lap times on his old softs faded away.
Alonso pits from seventh.
Vettel takes on ultrasofts but it's not a good stop, and that plus a sudden burst of fastest-lap-setting speed from Bottas means he falls to third!
Pit stop
Vettel now pits from the lead.
Raikkonen falls to fifth, and rejoins on some used softs.
Pit stop
Raikkonen makes a second pitstop!
Vettel's softs have surely had enough. Not helped by traffic either, his gap suddenly begins to tumble - now just 9.3s.
McLaren has told Alonso that he has in fact cleared Grosjean.
Radio Comms
Alonso is told "this is our race right now", because Ocon is holding up Sainz and Grosjean.
Sirotkin's stop as put him back behind Ericsson at the rear of the field.
Ricciardo's progress towards Bottas and Raikkonen - which is a bit of a tease anyway as he still has a pitstop to make - has slowed a bit and he is now 5.2s behind.
Ocon is running 10th, but he's yet to stop.

By: Geoff Creighton

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