Hungarian Grand Prix driver ratings

6 Nico Rosberg
Mercedes F1 W07

Start: 1st
Finish: 2nd
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Fortunate track position helped Rosberg to pole, along with pushing yellow flag rules further to the limit than others, but he can't really be criticised for doing his job to the letter of the law.

He was less decisive at Turn 1 in the race, which cost him victory. Rosberg needs to make more of his opportunities, or else this title battle will be lost.

44 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes F1 W07

Start: 2nd
Finish: 1st
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 9

Hamilton bounced back well from crashing in second practice to look favourite for pole on a track he loves. But Alonso's spin spoiled his party. The world champion made up for that with a good start and decisive pass into Turn 1 to win the race.

He admitted he wasn't as strong as he'd been last time out at Silverstone, and an error at Turn 12 almost cost him dearly, but otherwise he controlled things expertly.

5 Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari SF16-H

Start: 5th
Finish: 4th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 8

The SF16-H was better here than at Silverstone, and Vettel felt it "came alive" in qualifying, saying he would have been close to pole without the yellow flags in Q3 - but his was not the only 'what if?' tale.

He jumped one Red Bull after the first pitstops and hassled the other. He couldn't overtake Ricciardo for the final podium position, but this was much better after his Silverstone shocker.

7 Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari SF16-H

Start: 14th
Finish: 6th
Strategy: 2 stops (soft/super-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

Ferrari's timing of Raikkonen's switch to slicks in Q2 meant he ran out of time to do a lap in the best conditions. He drove really well for most of the race, working his way incisively up the lower order early on and executing a very impressive middle stint on super-softs.

He should really have taken fifth, but broke his front wing faffing about behind Verstappen.

19 Felipe Massa
Williams-Mercedes FW38

Start: 18th
Finish: 18th
Strategy: 2 stops (soft/medium/super-soft)

Rating: 3

Massa seems to be driving quite erratically at the moment, lacking consistency. Crashing on an out-lap in qualifying after getting caught out by a wet white line was careless in the extreme, and won't have helped his confidence.

His race was "terrible", affected badly by a steering problem, so he made no real progress. One of his worst grands prix this season.

77 Valtteri Bottas
Williams-Mercedes FW38

Start: 10th
Finish: 9th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 7

Pat Symonds felt Williams under-performed in qualifying, where Bottas - armed with a new floor - was slowest of all the Q3 runners, behind Hulkenberg's Force India and slower than he'd managed in final practice.

His race was better. He passed Hulkenberg on the first lap and did his best to keep up with Alonso and Sainz, but to no avail. Williams just doesn't look the force it once was.

3 Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull-Renault RB12

Start: 3rd
Finish: 3rd
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 9

Although Red Bull finished practice strongly, third was the best Ricciardo could qualify without extra fortune (or more bad weather) on his side.

He tried to give the Mercedes a run for their money in the race, but his Turn 1 lunge didn't work out and he ultimately had to devote more energy to fending off Vettel. A strong drive was needed after recent defeats to Verstappen.

33 Max Verstappen
Red Bull-Renault RB12

Start: 4th
Finish: 5th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Though Verstappen came within 0.002s of topping the final practice session, pole was never realistically within reach if Mercedes got its act together. He qualified well behind Ricciardo, but his best sectors were actually good enough to be fractionally ahead of his team-mate, had circumstances been different.

He had to play second fiddle strategically in the race, but his robust defence against Raikkonen showcased ruthlessly astute judgment again.

11 Sergio Perez
Force India-Mercedes VJM09

Start: 13th
Finish: 11th
Strategy: 2 stops (soft/medium/soft)

Rating: 6

Perez admitted a Turn 5 error cost him a place in Q3, so he loses marks for that. He was OK in the race but not particularly quick. He almost capitalised on the opportunity to score created by Massa delaying Hulkenberg and the two Haas drivers after their first stops.

As it was Force India botched Perez's final stop, so he missed out anyway. At least he re-passed Gutierrez near the end.

27 Nico Hulkenberg
Force India-Mercedes VJM09

Start: 9th
Finish: 10th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 6

Hulkenberg was a match for McLaren in Q2, but picked up too much understeer in Q3, where he ended up 0.226s adrift despite doing an extra flying lap.

A messy race included losing a place to Bottas with poor positioning at Turn 1, getting stuck in the queue behind Massa after first pitstop, then temporarily giving 10th away by slipping the clutch at his second stop.

20 Kevin Magnussen
Renault RS16

Start: 19th
Finish: 15th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/super-soft/soft)

Rating: 6

Not much to say about qualifying, where, like his team-mate, Magnussen was an innocent victim of the track position and multiple red flag lottery in terrible wet weather.

Jumped Massa but lost out to Wehrlein on lap one. He showed decent pace compared to Palmer on the same tyre, but spent the rest of the race after his first stop stuck behind Grosjean.

30 Jolyon Palmer
Renault RS16

Start: 17th
Finish: 12th
Strategy: 2 stops (soft/super-soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Renault made a set-up breakthrough here, which allowed both cars to flirt with the top 10 in final practice. Qualifying was a disaster not of Palmer's making, but he dived through the strategic window created by Massa's weak pace and Force India's botched second pitstops to rise to 10th, then half-spun it all away at Turn 4.

Still, this was his best race since the season-opener in Melbourne.

26 Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR11

Start: 12th
Finish: 16th
Strategy: 2 stops (soft/super-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 5

The Russian felt Toro Rosso did a "very poor job" in qualifying, taking too long to switch to slicks in Q2 and putting him into traffic. He suspected incorrect settings were to blame for wheelspinning away eight places at the start.

Kvyat gained a couple back at pitstops, but otherwise spent "one of my least enjoyable races for a while" stuck behind slower cars. Still searching for his mojo at STR.

55 Carlos Sainz Jr
Toro Rosso-Ferrari STR11

Start: 6th
Finish: 8th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Given Toro Rosso's tyre problems in practice this represented a good salvage job. Sainz did well to out-qualify both McLarens, all the more so given it was based on his first Q3 lap rather than the second his rivals didn't get.

He couldn't re-pass Alonso after losing out into Turn 1, but otherwise drove yet another decent race into the points, which is pleasingly becoming a habit now.

9 Marcus Ericsson
Sauber-Ferrari C35

Start: Pits
Finish: 20th
Strategy: 3 stops (soft/soft/super-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 4

A disappointing weekend for Ericsson, who made life unnecessarily difficult for himself by crashing in qualifying. Pitlane start in a spare car bottled him up behind Haryanto's Manor and he struggled to make progress.

Being aggressive on strategy didn't really work, given how readily his Sauber chewed up the super-soft tyre, and he ended up finishing behind the other Manor. A race to forget.

12 Felipe Nasr
Sauber-Ferrari C35

Start: 16th
Finish: 17th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 7

Nasr was briefly fastest in the wet chaos of Q1, but Sauber never stood a chance as the track dried in Q2. He started the race well, but his first stop came too early and eight laps stuck behind Haryanto (who he passed eventually) undid his early fight with Renault. He was easy meat for Kvyat, but caught him and Magnussen before the end. A solid job.

14 Fernando Alonso
McLaren-Honda MP4-31

Start: 7th
Finish: 7th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 8

Another strong weekend for Alonso, who admits he's more fired up this year now McLaren-Honda is relatively more competitive. He loses a mark for qualifying behind Sainz despite a cleaner run through practice, and another for the silly spin that ultimately sparked fresh controversy between the Mercedes drivers.

He can't be faulted for his race, which he found "a little bit boring". He achieved the maximum result possible.

22 Jenson Button
McLaren-Honda MP4-31

Start: 8th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (super-soft/soft/medium/retired)

Rating: 6

Button was a bit stronger than Alonso through the early phases of qualifying in mixed conditions, but less competitive in the dry and he trailed by more than three tenths in Q3, not helped by his team-mate's timely spin.

His race was a nightmare, undone by brake problems related to hydraulics, a "joke" penalty for a radio rules breach while fixing that, and an oil leak.

88 Rio Haryanto
Manor-Mercedes MRT-05

Start: 21st
Finish: 22nds
Strategy: 1 stop (soft/medium)

Rating: 5

Haryanto trailed Wehrlein by a couple of tenths in the dry after practice, but was several seconds off in the wet before becoming one of the three crashers in Q1. He has to lose marks for that.

He then played his customary role as Manor's strategic guinea pig in the race, which equated to holding up Ericsson's Sauber then plodding around hopelessly on the medium tyre.

94 Pascal Wehrlein
Manor-Mercedes MRT-05

Start: 20th
Finish: 19th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 7

Wehrlein had a small but crucial edge on Haryanto in the dry here, at a track he knows from his DTM days, but Manor struggled on a circuit that exposes the MRT-05's downforce deficit.

He jumped three faster cars at the start of the race, but was always likely to slip back eventually. So it proved, though Manor's strategic pincer helped him beat Ericsson's Sauber.

8 Romain Grosjean
Haas-Ferrari VF-16

Start: 11th
Finish: 14th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 6

Grosjean did a good job to put the Haas several places higher than it merited in qualifying, but he felt that "nothing really worked" in the race.

He lost ground at the first stops to a slow in-lap and exiting behind Haryanto's Manor, which dropped him behind Gutierrez, Palmer and Perez when they stopped. An ill-handling car meant he fell further back in the final stint, resulting in a disappointing end after Saturday's promise.

21 Esteban Gutierrez
Haas-Ferrari VF-16

Start: 15th
Finish: 13th
Strategy: 2 stops (super-soft/soft/soft)

Rating: 6

Gutierrez underwhelmed in qualifying, where he couldn't get the tyres working as the track improved. His race tailed off after a strong start. He jumped Grosjean at the first pitstops, but dropped behind Perez and Palmer after getting caught in Massa's go-slow train.

He re-passed the Renault when Palmer spun, only to give up position after picking up a blue flag penalty. He also lost out to the delayed Perez near the end.