The race itself was a good race to watch and an exciting one too. Max Verstappen on pole for Sundays race for his first ever pole position. On a hot and dry Sunday race, Verstappen took the lead at the start with Current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton behind him for the first forty-eight laps. By lap 49, Hamilton opted to take a second pit-stop for fresh medium tyres, while Verstappen opted to stay on the track with his used hard tyres. With that gap reduced lap by lap, by the start of lap 67 Hamilton took the lead from Verstappen at turn 1 and stayed there to the end to conclude with a race win in this seasons Hungarian Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton's fifth race win of the season.
While, Max Verstappen finished in second place in the Red Bull, Verstappen was seventeen seconds behind Hamilton at the end.
Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Vettel was sixty-one seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the seventy lap race.
Now with nine races to go, with Lewis Hamilton's win in Hungary, Max Verstappen only managing a second place finish, while Hamilton's team mate Valtteri Bottas managing only an eighth place finish at the Hungaroring, Lewis Hamilton has now improve his lead of the F1 Drivers' Standings from forty-one points to sixty-two points ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas, while Max Verstappen is third in the standings with sixty-nine points behind Hamilton.
While Mercedes still leads F1 Constructors' Standings, the gap is now improved from one hundred and forty-eight points to one hundred and fifty 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 - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 10 (race win)
Valtteri Bottas - 6 (finished eighth, lap down)
Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 7 (finished third)
Charles Leclerc - 7 (finished fourth)
Red Bull Racing - 7
Max Verstappen - 9 (pole, finished second, fastest lap)
Pierre Gasly - 5 (finished sixth, lap down)
Renault - 5
Daniel Ricciardo - 5 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Nico Hülkenberg - 5 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Haas - 5
Romain Grosjean - 6 (DNF, Water pressure)
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
McLaren - 9
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 10 (finished fifth, lap down)
Lando Norris - 8 (finished ninth, lap down)
Racing Point - 5
Sergio Pérez- 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Lance Stroll - 4 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Alfa Romeo - 6
Kimi Räikkönen - 8 (finished seventh, lap down)
Antonio Giovinazzi - 4 (finished eighteen, two laps down)
Toro Rosso - 5
Daniil Kvyat - 4 (finished fifteenth, two laps down)
Alexander Albon - 7 (finished tenth, lap down)
Williams - 4
George Russell - 5 (finished eighteenth, two laps down)
Robert Kubica - 3 (finished nineteenth, three laps down)
Next stop Spa-Francorchamps for the Belgian Grand Prix in four weeks time.
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