F1 Hungarian GP Live Updates - race day
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By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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Thanks for joining us for this triple header, you lovely lot get a weekend away from us! We'll see you for Silverstone - take care!
No podium robots this week, sadly - they've been retired. Rumours that one of them has gone rogue is as yet unfounded...
...aaaand the bottom 10: 11. Leclerc, 12. Kvyat, 13. Norris, 14. Ocon, 15. Grosjean, 16. Raikkonen, 17. Giovinazzi, 18. Russell, 19. Latifi, DNF. Gasly
Final top 10 order, then: 1. Hamilton, 2. Verstappen, 3. Bottas, 4. Stroll, 5. Albon, 6. Vettel, 7. Perez, 8. Ricciardo, 9. Magnussen, 10. Sainz
Bottas: "It was pretty...bad race, to be honest. I lost it at the start, I reacted to a light on my dash that went off, and instead of the start lights, so I had to do the start again."
Verstappen: "It was not how I wanted it in the beginning, of course! But the mechanics did an amazing job to fix the car, so to pay them back with second place was great. To split the two Mercedes is good for us."
Hamilton: "Round 1 was multiple different punches I wasn't ready for, but I refocused, and we've just been on point through the whole weekend."
Hamilton: "Believe it or not, it's still pushing out there. I want to say a huge congratulations to everyone back home - while I was on my own for the race it was a different kind of challenge."
Hamilton almost stumbles as he gets out of his dominant W11, the only foot he put wrong all weekend...
Ex-Arsenal player Robert Pires gives Hamilton the thumbs-up. Thankfully, Pires isn't in charge of delivering penalties this weekend...
Stroll claims fourth place, bagging Racing Point's highest finish of the year, with Albon fifth, Vettel sixth, Perez, Ricciardo, Magnussen and Sainz completing the top 10.
Verstappen hangs on by fractions to keep second, after a very last minute suspension change, beating Bottas by mere metres.
With Vettel running wide and losing that place to Albon, it has also invited Perez into the fight but he has to ease off to allow Hamilton to lap him.
Hamilton pits for soft tyres, a steady stop from Mercedes and Hamilton returns 6s clear of Verstappen.
Perez has steadied the gap to Ricciardo behind him in the fight for seventh place, but ahead of him Albon is within one second of Vettel.
But Hamilton, clearly with some excellent diplomacy skills, has managed to secure some soft boots - but he'll have to wait a couple of laps for them.
Hamilton's pitcrew pop out, then in again. "What's going on?", Hamilton enquires. "Standby, Lewis, while I find out myself..." says engineer Bonnington. Gosh, Mercedes will never win anything with that kind of sloppiness.
We're currently watching a battle between Kvyat, Ocon and Norris for 12th. Even Sainz doesn't get this amount of airtime.
Bottas' progress to Verstappen was halted a bit by traffic, but the Finn has closed the gap to 8.5s. Verstappen putting in a mighty drive to hang on, though.
Sainz gets the move done on Leclerc at Turn 1 a lap later as he eases the Ferrari driver wide on the exit of the corner.
"We're thinking of taking this free stop", says Bonnington. Hamilton asks if he can have soft tyres, but Bono tells him they'd grain in three laps.
Sainz is still badgering Leclerc for P10 having eased off for a few laps. The McLaren driver pulls alongside the Ferrari and the pair come within inches of banging wheels.
Albon's within touching distance of Vettel as well. But, Albon's under investigation for grid-drying: 
Ricciardo is chipping away at the gap to Perez in the fight for P7, dropping the deficit to under two seconds, while the Racing Point driver is also closing in on Albon in sixth place. That battle looks set to come alive in the closing laps.
Bottas will, according to our favourite TV graphic, be close to Verstappen in nine laps, with two difficulties/pass on the scale. Again, official units. Don't make me get the Big Book of Scientific Formulae out.
Stroll's come in for fresh boots, having had a free stop over Vettel. Hard tyres for the Racing Point.
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