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Lewis Hamilton also won the Hungarian Grand Prix a week after his victory in Germany. World champion Mercedes won Sunday at the Hungaroring ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen's two Ferrari cars, and extended their lead over Vettel from 17 to 24 points before the summer break. For the British, it was the 67th GP victory and the 12th race of the 2018 season.
What was considered a reduction in damage at Mercedes finally caused an unexpected pole and a victory Hamilton's start-finish, "We're taking this bonus win, which was not really our track," said Hamilton, cheering the grueling race. Räikkönen was to hear in the Hungarian plains, even without liquid, because he had forgotten to connect his bottle to Ferrari
Radical Maneuver
Only a double victory of Mercedes was not the last at Hockenheim, although the fourth Vettel started despite courageous tire tactics after a missed pit stop had no chance of victory. With a radical maneuver, however, the German has managed at least second place and maximum damage limitation. Although Valtteri Bottas blocked until shortly before the end of the two Ferrari, Vettel overtook the Finn, which allowed Raikkonen to take the podium with his front tire. Even Daniel Ricciardo arrives. Although the Finn has fiercely resisted here too and has collided with the Australian Red Bull, who started only from the 12th place, but returned to fourth place at the 39th. ;team. While Max Verstappen retired after just five laps with a defective RB14 and provoked team discontent over Renault, Ricciardo was elected man of the race.
Chaotic start
"The start was chaotic and frustrating" Ricciardo, who initially dropped to 16th place. "But the car was fantastic and in the end it was very entertaining." He said in the accident with Bottas: "I saw that it is easy to overtake and yet I rolled over, it still hit me." However, because of the return of rank, it would be acceptable to clbadify this as a "race accident".
With the exception of the dramatic final phase, the last race before the summer holidays was relatively quiet until the Spa race (August 26). Hamilton and Bottas are perfectly off the pole and have moved away. At Ferrari, the best Raikkonen left his first four on the heavier and slightly slower tire of teammate Vettel
Rough Mistakes
Ferrari arrived at the end of a tough week with the death of Fiat-Chrysler Boss Sergio Marchionne the grossest mistakes on the box. Raikkonen even had to dig twice in addition to his bottle crash. When Hamilton finished his tire change, Vettel took the lead and tried to get out of the pit stop window. However, the German was slowed down both by the traffic and then in his own tire change by a problem of impact wrench which cost him several seconds and which was put back on track After Bottas
. While Hamilton was safe at the front and 17 seconds from the end, Vettel had to wait until Bottas bottas dropped the ghost. Even then, the German needed a crowbar maneuver to pbad the combative Finn
Self-criticism
"We were quick but not able to exploit that", said Hamilton's self-criticism. "It was stupid that I had to go in and out after Valtteri, I could not attack him because he had cooler tires and then put everything on the last ten laps." In the collision, Vettel felt guilty. "I was in front, I covered the inside and I had a shot from behind, I was lucky that nothing is happening in the car."
He was applauded mainly at Mercedes, although since 2004 (Michael Schumacher) became more world champion. "The post and Lewis superstar were half of the battle," said boss Toto Wolff's team. For Bottas, there was a lot of praise. "Valtteri was a sensational winger and kept both Ferraris 20 laps behind, but in the end he ran out of tires."
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