The race itself was a good race to watch and an exciting one too. Current Formula 1 World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton on pole for Sunday's race. At a damp to dry Hungarian Grand Prix, Hamilton took the lead, while team-mate Valtteri Bottas crash into Lando Norris resulting crashing into both Red Bull drivers resulting Max Verstappen with a damaged car throughout the race while Bottas, Norris, and Sergio Pérez retiring instantly. While Lance Stroll crashing into Charles Leclerc at the start resulting a red flag on lap 2.
On the restart, the track dried up with the remaining drivers change to dry tyres and start in the pit-lane. A part from Hamilton , who started on intermediates and started on the grid and forced to change tyres on the next lap giving Esteban Ocon the lead, Ocon stayed there till the end despite a late charge from Sebastian Vettel it was Ocon day to win this seasons Hungarian Grand Prix for Esteban Ocon's first ever Grand Prix win. And Alpine their first win as a constructor and their first Grand Prix win as a team since Kimi Räikkönen won the 2013 Austrilian Grand Prix as Lotus.
While, Sebastian Vettel finished in second place in the Aston Martin. However, Vettel was later disqualified because the required fuel sample could not be extracted from his car. Therefore, Current Formula 1 World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton finished in second place in the Mercedes, Hamilton was three seconds behind Ocon at the end.
Meanwhile, Carlos Sainz Jr. finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Sainz Jr. was fifteen seconds behind Ocon at the end.
Finally, Williams drivers Nicholas Latifi and George Russell finished seventh and eighth place in the Williams, giving the team their first points finishes since the 2019 German Grand Prix when Robert Kubica finished in tenth and Williams their first double points finish since the 2018 Italian Grand Prix. Latifi was sixty-seven seconds behind Ocon while Russell was sixty-nine seconds behind Ocon at the end of the seventy lap race.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Mercedes - 7
Lewis Hamilton - 9 (pole, finished second)
Valtteri Bottas - 5 (DNF, Collision with Norris)
Red Bull Racing - 7
Max Verstappen - 8 (finsihed ninth)
Sergio Pérez - 6 (DNF, Collision with Norris)
McLaren - 6
Daniel Ricciardo - 7 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Lando Norris - 6 (DNF, Collision damage with Bottas)
Aston Martin - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 10 (DSQ, No fuel sample; originally finished second)
Lance Stroll - 5 (DNF, Collision with Leclerc)
Alpine - 9
Fernando Alonso - 9 (finished fourth)
Esteban Ocon - 10 (race win)
Ferrari - 7
Charles Leclerc - 6 (DNF, Collision with Stroll)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 9 (finished third)
AlphaTauri - 8
Pierre Gasly - 8 (finished fifth, fastest lap)
Yuki Tsunoda - 8 (finished sixth)
Alfa Romeo - 5
Kimi Räikkönen - 6 (finished tenth, lap down)
Antonio Giovinazzi - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Haas - 6
Mick Schumacher - 7 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Nikita Mazepin - 5 (DNF, Collision with Räikkönen)
Williams - 8
George Russell - 8 (finished eighth)
Nicholas Latifi - 9 (finished seventh)
Next stop Spa-Francorchamps for the Belgian Grand Prix in four weeks time.
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