Hungarian-GP

Red Bull driver took victory at the Hungaroring, with Lewis Hamilton second and Charles Leclerc a distant sixth.

Leclerc was as perplexed as the rest of us as to why the team chose the hard tyres and bemoaned Ferrari’s failings. Ferrari were forced to pit him again for soft tyres but the damage was done and he emerged in sixth, from which he could not come back. We had a few overtakes, we pitted at the right time and put the right tyres on the car. Sainz and Leclerc had started in second and third, the race surely theirs to dictate. Verstappen’s touch and judgment in coming through the field was unquestionable and Red Bull’s race management and strategy calls were executed to perfection. What had begun with the expectation of damage limitation led to an immense run from 10th on the grid as he and his Red Bull team pulled off an absolute coup.

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"I think we did everything right for all the right reasons," Russell said. "But, there's no doubt we're making progress," he added. "When I was sat on the gird and rain was on the way and I was on the soft and everyone was on the mediums, I was rubbing my hands together. "I think Lewis in Budapest, that is a success story and I think we lost the race for him yesterday," added Wolff. "The other guys still have a bit of an edge but we are clearly closing the gap and this is just an amazing way to go into the break knowing that we have this performance. "We have found something and we have been able to get a little bit closer and been able to compete with the Ferraris," said Hamilton. "I honestly think in a straight out race we might not be that far behind Max.

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Unfortunately it didn't go our way today but as a team we did everything right." "That put us in a very tricky position in that last stint on the mediums and I was already struggling a bit and my engineer said 25 laps to go and the rain started falling and temperatures were dropping so I thought it was going to be a tricky last few laps." "I made a really good start, the first four laps were really strong and pulled the gap to three seconds to Carlos [Sainz] and unfortunately the rain stopped so the medium tyres came into their own but we still had a good first stint and we pitted early on both occasions to cover Max and cover the Ferraris and ultimately Max was too fast for us today.

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(Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) Very tricky conditions out there but we had a really good strategy," said Verstappen afterwards. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)

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But Leclerc was given a second chance, despite blasting the state of the tyres. As the lap counter hit the high teens, Leclerc’s pace was declining. Then on lap 31, Leclerc made it stick. Hamilton finally made his second stop on the end of lap 51 for a switch to softs and came out in fifth, 10s down on Sainz as Russell usurped Leclerc – still struggling on the hard tyres. The Mercedes were the next fastest cars in the final phase of the race, with soft-shod Hamilton able to depose Sainz on older tyres and then team-mate Russell for second place. But come lap 43, Verstappen was back within a second of chief championship rival Leclerc and he cut his RB18 back through Turn 2 to retake the position down the hill into Turn 3. Leclerc immediately pulled seven tenths on the Mercedes and doubled that gap over the rest of the lap, the advantage climbing to 2.8s with Russell in third and Verstappen fourth. He was subsequently stopped at the end of lap 21 for a set of mediums in 2.9s to promote Russell into the lead. Verstappen had DRS on Leclerc into Turn 1 to depose the Ferrari, the Dutch ace shrewdly opening his steering a fraction at the apex to force Leclerc to compromise his line further. With the red cars nose-to-tail, it looked as though they would be split when Sainz was told to box at the end of lap 16 but he stayed out as Russell then came in for his first stop. Russell was put on a set of used softs to launch on a dry track, the spots of rain that had been landing in the build-up to the race failing to develop into a full-blown shower initially. Sainz had tried to bully it around the outside of the right-hander before the W13 cut back at the apex, with the Scuderia then keeping in formation with Leclerc slotting into third place.

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