Good points
- Lewis Hamilton (pole to finished with a race win)
- Lotus (Kimi Räikkönen, finished 2nd; Romain Grosjean, finished 6th, despite a drive through penalty)
- Red Bull Racing (Sebastian Vettel, finished 3rd; Mark Webber, finished 4th)
- Pastor Maldonado (finished 10th, first points of the season for Williams)
- Giedo van der Garde (finished 14th, ahead of Caterham team-mate Charles Pic and Marussia drivers)
Bad points
- Nico Rosberg (DNF, Engine)
- Esteban Gutiérrez (DNF, Transmission)
- Valtteri Bottas (DNF, Engine)
- Force India (Paul di Resta, DNF, Hydraulics; Adrian Sutil, DNF, Hydraulics, on his 100th Grand Prix)
The race itself was a very good race to watch. And for the first time this season a race win for Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes. Also, his first win with Mercedes, fist time for a Brit to win in a Mercedes F1 car since Stirling Moss won at the British Grand Prix, at Aintree in 1955. Also, a well earned win for the former world champion in the Mercedes.
Meanwhile, Kimi Räikkönen finished in second place in the Lotus, on a two-stop strategy. While current F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel finished in third place, in his Red Bull.
And now with Sebastian Vettel was leading the drivers championship with 34 points ahead after the Nürburgring round, and now after the Hungaroring, his ahead of Kimi Räikkönen with 38 points. Despite, he only finished in third place in the race, Fernando Alonso is third in the standings with 39 points behind Vettel. While former champions Lewis Hamilton is only 48 points behind behind Vettel in the drivers standings with nine races to go. Can Hamilton, Räikkönen and Alonso can still catch up in the drivers championship and still win it? Only a little bit of luck is needed in my opinion. Remember last season Vettel was 42 points behind Alonso at this time to win his third title.
So is it Sebastian Vettel's championship for the taking, time will tell.
And speaking of Sebastian Vettel, there have been rumours at this weekends Hungarian Grand Prix that Fernando Alonso has approached Red Bull about moving there for next season, as sources say Alonso's manager has told Red Bull the Spaniard is potentially available to partner the current world champion.
In my opinion, I don't think this will ever happen as this is more of a red herring and maybe a signal from Alonso to tell Ferrari make a faster car or else I am leaving after the 2014 season. As I reckoned it will be either Kimi Räikkönen or Toro Rosso driver Daniel Ricciardo to be Sebastian Vettel team-mate next season. As I think Alonso and Vettel would be another Prost and Senna in the making, and that didn't happy ended well either.
So next stop, is round eleven for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps in four weeks time.
End of blog for how, new post soon. Bye.
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