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...How Hungary proved that results rarely tally with performance
The real merits of individual drives in F1 tend to differ wildly from the perception. Heikki Kovalainen recalls his drive in Hungary last year in the Renault as his best performance of that season - yet he finished an unheralded eighth.
He was embroiled in a scrap with Mark Webber's Red Bull from the start of the race to the end, a fight that he won. The pair of them were flat-out all afternoon, and Heikki's adaptation to the changing track conditions and handling of the car as the tyres wore was perfect.
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