2012 Hungarian Grand Prix Review and thoughts

2012 Hungarian Grand Prix review of the eleventh race of the F1 season at Hungaroring, and a few thoughts on the race and the battle for the drivers championship.

Good points

• Lewis Hamilton (pole to finished with a race win)
• Lotus F1 Team (Kimi Räikkönen finished 2nd, Romain Grosjean finished 3rd)
• Fernando Alonso (finished 5th)
• Bruno Senna (finished 7th)
• Charles Pic (finished 20th, ahead of team-mate Timo Glock)

Bad points

• Mark Webber (finished 8th, now 40 points behind Alonso in the standings)
• Pastor Maldonado (finished 13th, received a drive-through penalty for barging Paul di Resta's Force India aside in one of the race's few concerted passing attempts in the middle of the race)
• Narain Karthikeyan (DNF, Suspension)
• Michael Schumacher (he turned his own engine off at the beginning of the race in a misunderstanding over the delayed start in the race had a puncture, a pitlane speeding penalty, then late on the race with a DNF with a Mechanical problem)

A dominating race weekend from Lewis Hamilton, from pole position on Saturday to conclude with a race win on Sunday. Despite, the challenges from both Lotus drivers', Romain Grosjean at the start and middle, and Kimi Räikkönen right at the end. As for Kimi, a great race that the 2007 champion could have won in the end if Lewis tyres went off. Still a good performance from the former champion. Even on Sunday morning there were rumours that KImi Räikkönen could be returning to Ferrari for 2013 teaming up with Alonso, which I acan't see it happen. I think Ferrari already knows who is teaming up with as Alonso's team mate for 2013 anyway.

And now with Alonso he was leading the drivers championship with 34 points ahead after Hockenheim, and now after the Hungaroring, his ahead of Mark Webber with 40 points. Despite, he only finished forth place in the race, Sebastian Vettel is third in the standings with 42 points behind Alonso. While former champions Lewis Hamilton is only 47pts behind and Kimi Räikkönen only 48pts behind Alonso in the drivers championship with nine races to go. Can Webber, Vettel, Hamilton and Räikkönen can still catch up in the drivers championship and still win it? Only a little bit of luck is needed in my opinion. It's Alonso's championship for the taking dare to say.

End of blog for how, new blog soon, that is all. Bye.