2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Review

Review of the eleventh round of the 2018 F1 season at the Hungaroring outside of Budapest, for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The race itself was a good race to watch and the race where Current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton controlled it. Hamilton on pole for Sundays race after a wet qualifying on Saturday, On a hot and dry Sunday race, Hamilton took the lead at the start with Valtteri Bottas and Sebastian Vettel behind him and didn't look back leading most of the laps to conclude with a race win in this seasons Hungarian Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton's fifth race win of the season.



While, Sebastian Vettel finished in second place in the Ferrari, Vettel was seventeen seconds behind Hamilton at the end.

Meanwhile, Kimi Räikkönen finished in third place in the other Ferrari to complete the podium, Räikkönen was twenty seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the seventy lap race.

Now with nine races to go, with Lewis Hamilton's win in Hungary and Sebastian Vettel only managing a second place finish at the Hungaroring, Lewis Hamilton has now improve his lead of the F1 Drivers' Standings from seventeen points to twenty-four points ahead of Sebastian Vettel.

While Mercedes still leads F1 Constructors' Standings, the gap is now improved from eight points to ten 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 - 9 (pole, race win)
Valtteri Bottas - 6 (finished fifth)

Ferrari - 8
Sebastian Vettel - 8 (finished second)
Kimi Räikkönen - 8 (finished third)

Red Bull Racing - 8
Daniel Ricciardo - 10 (finished fourth, fastest lap)
Max Verstappen - 7 (DNF, Power loss)

Force India - 5
Sergio Pérez- 5 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Esteban Ocon- 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)

Williams - 3
Lance Stroll - 3 (finished seventeenth, two laps down)
Sergey Sirotkin - 3 (finished sixteenth, two laps down)

Renault - 5
Nico Hülkenberg - 5 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 6 (finished ninth, lap down)

Toro Rosso - 8
Pierre Gasly - 10 (finished sixth)
Brendon Hartley - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)

Haas - 7
Romain Grosjean - 6 (finished tenth, lap down)
Kevin Magnussen - 8 (finished seventh, lap down)

McLaren - 7
Fernando Alonso - 8 (finished eighth, lap down)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 7 (DNF, Gearbox)

Sauber - 4
Marcus Ericsson - 4 (finished fifteenth, two laps down)
Charles Leclerc - 5 (DNF, Suspension)


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