For a circuit that's supposedly impossible to overtake at the Hungaroring has given us yet another great race! Both Mercedes lost out at the start again before the first of Lewis' mistakes left him way back around 10th with all sorts of work to do. Rosberg couldn't match the pace of the Ferraris and eventually Hamilton had him back in his sights 6 seconds back.
A dramatic front wing failure for Hulkenberg then shook everything up again, leaving the two Ferraris and Mercedes on prime tyres at the front (after Rosberg inexplicably chose to take them instead of options, not wanting to give Lewis any possible advantage) and behind them a very fast Ricciardo on options. Raikkonen fell out of the battle quickly with MGU-K failure but Hamilton quickly followed by continuing his 2011 impression with a clumsy collision against Ricciardo.
Riccardo's visibly damaged car was still quick enough to make an ambitious deep braking move on Rosberg, which he almost pulled off only for another brain fart from a Mercedes driver with Rosberg cutting across the front of him, giving Rosberg a puncture and demoting him behind Hamilton in the back end of the top 10, and stealing Ricciardo of the chance of victory.
Meanwhile, Vettel pulled off one of his trademark victories leading from the front. McLaren even scored some points.
I'm giving this one a 9 thanks to all the drama, despite Lewis infuriating me.
A dramatic front wing failure for Hulkenberg then shook everything up again, leaving the two Ferraris and Mercedes on prime tyres at the front (after Rosberg inexplicably chose to take them instead of options, not wanting to give Lewis any possible advantage) and behind them a very fast Ricciardo on options. Raikkonen fell out of the battle quickly with MGU-K failure but Hamilton quickly followed by continuing his 2011 impression with a clumsy collision against Ricciardo.
Riccardo's visibly damaged car was still quick enough to make an ambitious deep braking move on Rosberg, which he almost pulled off only for another brain fart from a Mercedes driver with Rosberg cutting across the front of him, giving Rosberg a puncture and demoting him behind Hamilton in the back end of the top 10, and stealing Ricciardo of the chance of victory.
Meanwhile, Vettel pulled off one of his trademark victories leading from the front. McLaren even scored some points.
I'm giving this one a 9 thanks to all the drama, despite Lewis infuriating me.
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