2017 Hungarian Grand Prix Review

Review of the eleventh round of the 2017 F1 season at the Hungaroring outside of Budapest, for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Overall, a dominating race weekend for Ferrari, dominating in practice, dominating in qualifying, and most importantly dominating in the race for Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel. Vettel on pole for Sunday's hot and dry Hungarian Grand Prix, Vettel took the advantage at the start and comfortably lead the race throughout. Despite, Vettel had handing problems with his Ferrari throughout the race, it was enough for Vettel to conclude with this seasons Hungarian Grand Prix for Sebastian Vettel's fourth race win of the season.



While, Vettel's team-mate Kimi Räikkönen finished in second place in the other Ferrari to give the team its second one-two finish of the season, Räikkönen was a second behind Vettel at the end.

Meanwhile, Valtteri Bottas finished in third place in the Mercedes to complete the podium, Bottas was twelve seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the seventy lap race.

Now with nine races to go, with Sebastian Vettel's win in Hungary and Lewis Hamilton only managing a fourth place finish at the Hungaroring, Sebastian Vettel has now improve his lead of the F1 Drivers' Standings from one point to fourteen points ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Despite, he only finished in third place in the race, Valtteri Bottas is third in the standings with thirty-three points behind Vettel with nine races to go.

While Mercedes still leads F1 Constructors' Standings, the gap is now reduce from fifty-five points to thirty-nine points for Ferrari who are second in the Constructors' Standings with nine races to go.

Highlights of the race below, enjoy.



Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 7
Lewis Hamilton - 7 (finished fourth)
Valtteri Bottas - 8 (finished third)

Red Bull Racing - 6
Daniel Ricciardo - 6 (DNF, Collision with Verstappen)
Max Verstappen - 7 (finished fifth)

Ferrari - 9
Sebastian Vettel - 10 (pole and race win)
Kimi Räikkönen - 9 (finished second)

Force India - 6
Sergio Pérez - 6 (finished eighth, lap down)
Esteban Ocon - 6 (finished ninth, lap down)

Williams - 6
Paul di Resta - 8 (DNF, Power unit)
Lance Stroll - 5 (finished fourteenth, lap down)

McLaren - 9
Fernando Alonso - 10 (finished sixth and fastest lap)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 9 (finished tenth, lap down)

Toro Rosso - 7
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 9 (finished seventh, lap down)
Daniil Kvyat - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)

Haas - 4
Romain Grosjean - 4 (DNF, Mechanical)
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)

Renault - 6
Nico Hülkenberg - 5 (DNF, Electrical)
Jolyon Palmer - 7 (finished twelfth, lap down)

Sauber - 4
Marcus Ericsson - 4 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Pascal Wehrlein - 4 (finished sixteenth, lap down)


Next stop Spa-Francorchamps for the Belgian Grand Prix in four weeks time.