Hungarian Grand Prix race day
By: Geoff Creighton
Summary
Status: Stopped
That's it for Autosport Live today, stayed tuned to Autosport.com and Motorsport.com for all the breaking news from the paddock at the Hungaroring.
We'll see you back here for FP1 and the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday 24 August - have a good (almost) four weeks!
We'll see you back here for FP1 and the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday 24 August - have a good (almost) four weeks!
Here’s our race report from the Hungarian Grand Prix, which was dominated by Lewis Hamilton.
But one Spaniard who is happy is Alonso: "Great strategy, great timing, a shame for Stoffel - he really deserved it - great Sunday," he told McLaren on the cooldown lap.
"We need to look at something, because P5 to P9, we didn’t do something right," Carlos Sainz is clearly not happy with how his race turned out.
"I was surprised because I was already ahead," Vettel says of his contact with Bottas. "I was just trying to break to just cover the inside line, not run in too deep. [Then] I got a hit from behind so I wasn't sure what was going on and I was looking in the mirrors and I saw that Valtteri was there with Kimi. And after that it was clear - the car wasn't broken and we could carry on."
"It was tricky knowing when to come in and then we had an issue at the pitstop," explains Vettel. "I was sitting back and waiting and trying to line up everything on the last 10 laps [on Bottas]. And it worked."
"I'll be doing activities," Hamilton says of his summer break plans. We really hope he's a Step Brothers fan.
"We came here knowing that the Ferrari would be real quick this weekend, but to come out with these points we'll definitely take as a bonus," Hamilton says, somewhat underwhelmingly.
Hamilton opts to remove his helmet before getting out of the car - it's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for him.
Outside the points: 11 Hartley; 12 Hulkenberg; 13 Ocon; 14 Perez; 15 Ericsson; 16 Sirotkin; 17 Stroll
Result: 1 Hamilton; 2 Vettel; 3 Raikkonen; 4 Ricciardo; 5 Bottas; 6 Gasly; 7 Magnussen; 8 Alonso; 9 Sainz; 10 Grosjean
Bottas had argued over the radio about Ricciardo that "it was his own fault trying to come on the outside", which prompted Mercedes to say "OK, keep racing".
That seems over-cautious from Mercedes, as Ricciardo wasn't actually ahead of Bottas at that point, but it is very polite.
"Give back the position to Ricciardo," Mercedes tells Bottas. "Why?" he asks. "Because of the touching, he's told."
Ricciardo was going round the outside of Bottas, wasn't quite ahead, and Bottas locked up at Turn 1 and whacked the Red Bull, sending it wide and over the run-off area.
Vettel is having a bit of a punt, setting his best lap yet and getting Hamilton's lead down to 20s, but with only two laps left.
Bottas had got a massive amount of oversteer out of Turn 1 on his worn tyres as that incident began, allowing Vettel to out-accelerate him and then take the position, at which point Bottas clipped some grass, locked up and thumped the Ferrari.
So with four laps to go, Hamilton has a 23.5s lead over Vettel with Raikkonen surely now sitting tight in a dutiful third. Bottas's damaged car is just 1.3s ahead of Ricciardo.
That was quite a hard hit from Bottas into the back of Vettel, and happened when the move was basically all over already.
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