Hamilton emulates hero Senna in Hungary
Lewis Hamilton equalled his hero Aytron Senna's victory tally at the Hungaroring following his triumph on Sunday. Michele Merlino documents all the vital statistics from the Hungarian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton matched his hero Ayrton Senna's Hungarian Grand Prix victory tally on Sunday, when the Briton scored his third win at the venue.
The 27-year-old McLaren driver, who first won the race in 2007, and then again in 2009, took his third victory with a peerless performance while under late-race pressure from Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus.
Senna also took all three of his victories at the Hungaroring with McLaren, in 1988, 1991 and 1992.
Only Michael Schumacher has won more times than these two in Budapest, counting four victories on the track.
It's also worth noting that in recent times this has been a happy hunting ground for McLaren; five wins in the last six years in a run that was only broken by Red Bull in 2010.
Rather surprisingly, Sunday marked the first time since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix that Lewis had managed to win a race from pole position. Since that race in Montreal he's started from pole three times (Korea 2011, Australia and Malaysia 2012) and not triumphed. During the same period however he's actually won five races without starting up front (Belgium, China, Germany and Abu Dhabi in 2011 and Canada this year).
Race notes
• Kimi Raikkonen finished in second place for the fourth time on the Hungaroring, and for the third occasion he was beaten to the flag by Hamilton (2007, 2009 and 2012). In 2003 he lost out to Alonso (when the Spaniard took his maiden win).
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