Driver ranking for the Hungarian Grand Prix 2018

In Hungary, the world The champion struggled Friday, spun on Saturday morning, but made count of rainy prowess well known in qualifying for a crucial pole position in his last lap

. From the grid, the world champions were able to control the race despite the high temperatures – and Hamilton never really watched under any particular threat, especially when Sebastian Vettel came out of his pit stop behind Valtteri Bottas.

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Automotive disadvantage or not, Hamilton may be hard to give up at the top of the championship when the season resumes.

Rating out of ten: 9.5

Second place on the grid, Sebastian Vettel did a satisfying Sunday job, but a return of 18 points on race weekends consecutive numbers that could have reached a maximum of 50 posed new interrogation points.

Without the rain that hit qualifying, Vettel could have run and hid here. But it was raining, Ferrari qualifying behind Mercedes and Vettel, although still appearing to man in Q1 and Q2, was also outmatched by teammate Kimi Raikkonen for the first time since Australia.

VETTEL: Ferrari set to & # 39; unleashed after mid-year

A big move around the outside of Ferrari's sister in the first round of Sunday raised Vettel immediately on the tail of the Mercedes in the race, but the difficult yards of 39, a 39 laps on soft the tires were finally compromised by the first pre-stop traffic then by a slow service of Ferrari. The track position lost at Bottas has proved decisive for the hope of continuing Hamilton. Vettel says that Ferrari has "the potential to run wild" after the summer holidays but, as Mercedes has recently aptly demonstrated, this season will also mean realizing the potential you already have at your disposal.

ten: 8.5

It is not surprising that his son Robin is determined to follow his father on the great stages – The podium of Kimi Raikkonen in Hungary was fifth in as many races as the Finn

Kimi was certainly consistent: although a victory has eluded him, he finished on the podium in eight of the 12 races so far. The argument for renewing 2019 is becoming powerful

Rating out of ten: 8

It turned out to be one of those 'Sundays' demo & # 39; for Daniel Ricciardo as a series of his famous overtaking on the brakes brought a fourth place and a third prize of the Pilot of the day of 2018, awarded by a fan.

Of course, the fine print suggests that it was not really supposed to be so On a low speed circuit like this: Red Bull had come this weekend to aim for victory, before the rain does not leave his cars surprisingly at sea.

But when we qualify only 12th, we go down to 16th place first lap after the contact of the first corner, the fourth place is certainly more than you can hope for .

The shame for Ricciardo is that, with no podium in the six races since his victory in Monaco, his mid-season title hopes once again.

Rating out of ten: 9 [19659003] The season of Valtteri Bottas would be very different if it was not for the last 10 rounds of some grand prizes this year. For the third – perhaps the fourth – occasion, the Finn lost his playing field – this time as he struggled to keep his soft tires alive for a whopping 55 laps in front of the Ferarris.

It did not really work, Vettel, Raikkonen and Ricciardo of Red Bull finally made their way on the Mercedes to relegate Bottas from second to fifth in six laps.

He did his best to prevent Vettel and Ricciardo from getting closer in fact, the second of them earned him a time penalty of no consequence – and the frustration with the result was clearly evident after the race because he said that there was "no positive" to take from his day. Wolff described it as Bottas 'best record during his first 18 months in the team, although the Austrian' s remark on the "wingman" was not initially welcomed by his pilot before clarifications were published later

. ten: 7

Pierre Gasly does not make mediocre points in F1. The Toro Rosso driver has only finished in the top 10 three times in the first 17 races of his career – but each of them has been in the top seven.

And, rather than Bahrain when he finished fourth there was nothing fluid about Gasly's sixth place in Hungary. He qualified in a brilliant lap in the wet and then comfortably remained in front of the Haas in the form of Kevin Magnussen in the dry. "The car was mega, the strategy was fantastic, I just had to give everything I could," said Gasly, who could have been the driver of the day – on the weekend – himself.

Opinion of ten: 10

Kevin Magnussen flew under the radar in Hungary, not attracting much attention on the way to the seventh .

But in a year when Haas too often wasted profitable opportunities, caution would have been welcome in the team as the Dane grabbed what might have been expected.

Solid end of a first half of 2018.

Score out of ten: 9

Fernando Alonso almost always scores points in Hungary (nine years now), and almost always score points when the races fall on his birthday, so eighth on the the day the Spaniard is 37 is a result that has certainly gotten to form.

It's normally the double champion who gets most applause when Sundays go well for McLaren but this time it's the team's strategists who deserve special praise, Alonso himself acknowledging: "It was really a good Sunday for us, the pit-wall, as they were executing the perfect strategy." A 39-lap pass on soft tires allowed the Spaniard to climb to the 8th place, the reward being only 12th before

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After an inspired demonstration in qualifying, when he took fifth place in the rain, the ninth was at the bottom end of Carlos Sainz's ambitions before the race.The Spaniard lost at the start, giving up a valuable runway position at Gasly and Magnussen, then lost ground on the strategy McLaren.

A few in Checkered flag ints were useful, but nothing more. "Disappointed with today," tweeted Carlos Sunday night. "Another solid weekend where we miss big points." Its 2018 has not yet taken off – and a move towards McLaren seems the last most likely act.

Rating out of ten: 7

Awarded for most of the race behind the Renault of Sainz, Romain Grosjean's rhythm was never really obvious in the race of Sunday. His loss in terms of his teammate Magnussen 's performance was in qualifying when traffic prevented him from taking a good ride on the wet (the commissioners investigated Max Verstappen for embarrassing Romain but found actionable measures. mitigation sufficient to excuse Max). was a satisfying way to sign for his summer vacation – having failed in the first eight races, the points in Budapest accounted for a third top-10 in the last four races for Romain.

TEN: 7

Rather like the Haas who had a second lead over him at the flag, the first lap of the race was expensive to Brendon Hartley . He fell behind Magnussen and then lost time behind Renault during the first stint while his Toro Rosso was on the fastest ultrasoft.

A pit stop to cover Renault's under-rated Hulkenberg did not work particularly well, while neither made Toro Rosso's second place on the midrange, and so the 11th place was probably a missed opportunity after his debut in Q3 Saturday.

Rating out of ten: 6.5

Not a good weekend for Nico Hulkenberg . Outside the qualifying practice, when the rain fell, his race also collapsed due to a poor pace and indifferent strategy.

A good start should have put him in competition for the points but he was finally 12th. Rating out of ten: 5

Key figures tell the weekend of Esteban Ocon : 18th in qualifying, 13th on the day of the race, the French n & # 39, just failed to make a good impression. a weekend in which Force India was totally uncompetitive on track and mired in financial trouble. Saturday's brake problems hardly helped the Ocon either.

The uncertain situation of the team could have an immediate impact on the future of Ocon, the French being apparently destined to become a Renault driver in 2019.

Ten: 6

Taken in the lawsuit that placed the team that he led for the administration Friday night, Sergio Perez weekend on the track actually reflected his teammate. Perez is qualified behind Ocon while both cars were eliminated in Q1 and that the hope of an aggressive takeover race from the ultrasof never really worked.

Having admitted that the last few months have been "stressful", Perez tweeted Sunday night. that he hoped to be able to focus on "just being a driver" when the season resumes at Spa.

Rating out of ten: 5

The top Sauber in wet qualifying then the only one of them finished the race, but the 15th place ahead of the Williamses has finally was an exceptional weekend for Marcus Ericsson compared to his return to Germany.

Marking the tire of Daniel Ricciardo under braking at lap one cost the Swede a premature start but at least an early stop under the VSC for the average tires allowed him to come back from Sirotkin in what s'. proved to be the longest relay of the day – 62 laps.

ten: 6 [19659003] "It is so often that I think I did a very good job, but from the outside it looks like I did not do it a crumb more than just OK ", Sergey Sirotkin's summation after He felt that Hungary was another example of a strong performance.

Williams' slow pace was only enough for Sirotkin and his teammate Lance Stroll to compete on Sunday, and in this respect the Russian won this battle. He still has a 7-5 advantage over Stroll despite passing the penalty shootout in Budapest

All is not good for Williams and they have to make massive gains with the FW41 to save them season, but Sirotkin has not been the problem. a quietly stable personal introduction to F1.

Score out of ten: 6

"One of those races," was succinct evaluation of Lance Stroll of his Hungarian GP. There have unfortunately been too many "races" for Williams this year, with Lance improving to reach Q2 on Saturday, then immediately wiped out by an accident that forced him to start the big price from the pitlane. [19659003Delac] was a long time especially in particular

Score in ten: 6

Not finished

But for a broken gearbox on McLaren, Stoffel Vandoorne's car should finish two points in Hungary. The desperate shame for Stoffel was that his retirement wiped out his most competitive outing in a long, long time with the Belgian close to Alonso before his gearbox was stopped.

The ongoing qualification disaster – there is no other word -, however, a serious threat to his future F1

Rating out of ten: 8

N & # Anyone who does not understand what Max Verstappen was trying to say as F1 The radio baked machine, overloaded with work, she did her best to quell the audacious anguish Dutchman when his Renault engine was packed on the fifth lap? No, we did not think so either.

The Verstappen race had started pretty well as he was taking two places from that disappointing place to seventh, but we'll never know how good it could have been

Rating out of 10: N / A

A weekend classified under 'Learning & # 39; for Charles Leclerc . Unlike his teammate, he failed to qualify for Q2 in the first qualifying conditions and, unlike the rest of the pack, failed to complete a full lap after first contact with the team. the Indians of the Force

. ] Fortunately, and encouragingly for Sauber and his Ferrari supporters, the weekends have been much better than for the Monegasque in F1 so far.

Rating out of 10: N / A

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