Ricciardo spins out, but maintains fifth position.
"What a f***ing joke all the time." Vettel takes Bottas, but there's contact!
His gap to Bottas is still about 22 seconds as of Lap 31. He fits new soft tires, and rejoins the race in sixth behind Magnussen and Gasly. Ricciardo is pushing Gasly for fifth — Christian Horner said that’s where he wanted Ricciardo to end up. Qualifying. Rank ... Hungarian Grand Prix, Hungaroring Hungarian Grand Prix. Bottas gave the position up on the final lap, finishing in fifth. Could you explain it more? It was another problem with the engine, the turbo, which has been the problem in past retirements for him.The next driver to stop was Stoffel Vandoorne, many laps later around Lap 50, prompting a virtual safety car, but nobody in the points stopped. A lap later, he pits on Lap 40, and fits the ultrasoft tires — and it’s a slow pit stop!
He connects with Bottas, who also loses his spot to Raikkonen! The Brit was never troubled, leading the bulk of the laps. Ricciardo who started from P12 had a great race pace, passed a lot of cars to finish on P4.Website looking great. From the front runners only Sebastian Vettel started on the Soft compound.The start was clean and Max Verstappen overtook 2 places in first corner with his Red Bull to go to P5. Toggle.
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The ultrasoft tires aren’t looking that great, at least for Vettel.Grosjean is struggling to catch Sainz, who himself is struggling to catch the two McLaren cars ahead of him. Just sliding around, no grip, locking. I don’t know why [I was 2.3 seconds back of Hamilton] otherwise we would have changed it.The car felt weak at all stages of cornering. He slowly carved his way through the pack though, and was chasing cars in his caliber before the first round of pit stops were completed. After Ricciardo’s pit stop, he remained in fifth, and was chasing down Raikkonen for the fourth spot.Charles Leclerc of Sauber was the first driver to retire from the race, going out on the opening lap with engine trouble.
Sky Go: https://t.co/fxH1316WnM Off the start, both of Hamilton and Bottas got off the line well, but the strategies were quickly split as Ferrari pit Kimi Raikkonen early.Mercedes responded by pitting Bottas from second, covering Raikkonen easily but ceding position to Vettel. Magnussen made up a few places. They themselves wound up colliding, and Ricciardo was relegated to fifth with a lap to go.Mercedes wound up instructing Bottas to give the position back because the second collision could be blamed on him. He’s still got Vettel half a second behind him, though.
Vettel’s lead over Bottas is 21.3 seconds.In.
Hamilton is one second up after the first lap. Vettel seems to be staying out long enough for a late push with a set of ultrasoft tires, but its hard to imagine him getting another 14 laps out of his tires like he’d need.
Vettel’s radio tells him that Bottas is losing his rear tires.
He rejoins ahead of Magnussen and, of course, Raikkonen! #HungarianGP https://t.co/LRhl83Pi9iOn the ultrasofts, the Ferrari seemed to slide, and Vettel was unable to put a lot of pressure on Bottas. Ricciardo is 21 seconds up on Gasly, who is nearly 10 seconds up on Magnussen, who is nearly 20 seconds up on Alonso, so there are some large gaps on the track. He had to abort a lap due to yellow flags caused by a Lance Stroll spinout.Brendon Hartley of Toro Rosso and the Haas drivers, Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean, round out the top 10 of the grid.Below is all you need to know to watch the race on Sunday. Hamilton checks in on Bottas behind him, and is told that his teammate is doing fine. Hamilton, for what it’s worth, doesn’t think Mercedes “needs” a wet race to win on Sunday. ... Hungarian GP - race results ... 17:29 30 Jul 2018.
Hamilton comes in on Lap 26, and he rejoins the track in second. This is a disaster for Bottas. Ricciardo tries to make it down the main straight, but Magnussen defends well.
Ricciardo comes in for his only pit stop, and rejoins the race in fifth, ahead of Gasly and well ahead of Magnussen behind him. Website looking great.
Vettel went for an overtake at turn 2 and moved into second place, but Bottas made contact trying to defend, damaging his front wing and letting Räikkönen through. Ouch.
Behind the top five, it’s Gasly, Magnussen, Sainz, Hartley and Hulkenberg.
ET in the United States, and will be broadcast on ESPN. 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice 1: live results.