Hungarian Grand Prix

Mercedes' George Russell will start an F1 race from pole position for the first time in his career after topping Saturday's qualifying session in Hungary.

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Updates from the Hungaroring in Budapest as Mercedes George Russell starts on pole for the first time, ahead of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, with Max ...

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45 minutes to lights out: So it's Russell from the front today for the first time and he may be aided by the weather this afternoon as he goes for his maiden race win. Hamilton and Alonso are also famously known to be wet weather masters as too is Ocon who won his only F1 race in similar conditions at this track last year. Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Daniel Riccardo and Verstappen round out the top ten. 15 minutes to lights out: On the way to the grid we've seen plenty of cars already lock up, especially at turn two. Lap 29: Russell and Leclerc are locked in an enthralling battle for the lead of this race. Lap 4: We're back under green flag racing as the VSC ends and Russell gets an unbelievable jump. Magnussen also made contact with the back of Ricciardo's car. Lap 6: Verstappen overtakes Alonso down the straight towards turn four with ease. Leclerc comes out of the pits on hard tyres much to everyones surprise and he's struggling to warm them up. After some staunch defence, Leclerc finally darts past Russell on the start/finish straight to move up into P1 in this race. Elsewhere, Verstappen is on the radio saying that something isn't right with his car.. Leclerc now leads the way here in Hungary.

Another victory last weekend at France's Circuit Paul Ricard for Red Bull's Max Verstappen saw the reigning Formula One world champion extend his healthy ...

45 minutes to lights out: So it's Russell from the front today for the first time and he may be aided by the weather this afternoon as he goes for his maiden race win. Lap 29: Russell and Leclerc are locked in an enthralling battle for the lead of this race. Leclerc comes out of the pits on hard tyres much to everyones surprise and he's struggling to warm them up. After some staunch defence, Leclerc finally darts past Russell on the start/finish straight to move up into P1 in this race. Lap 49: Sainz is into the pits but it's a slow stop. Lap 56: Russell dives past Leclerc to take P2 and Ferrari respond by pitting Leclerc. Staggering stuff from the Italian team who seem to be in strategy disarray of late. Lap 61: Sainz is struggling with his traction out there and Hamilton is very close to getting DRS on the Ferrari driver. It seems inevitable that the Brit will past him to get back up into P3 as Ferrari seem to have pulled another strategy blunder with Leclerc. He could honestly win this race still as Verstappen has much older tyres on and will need to nurse them towards the end. Lap 68: The virtual safety car is back out as Bottas is forced to retire from this race with only two laps remaining. Lap 65: Hamilton is up into P2! It seems like Mercedes don't want to make the call so they allow their drivers to fight for position. Mercedes pair Hamilton and Russell complete the podium places as Ferrari fail to inspire yet again with some poor strategy calls.

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But there simply wasn't quite enough race left for Hamilton to get it done and Mercedes had to settle for a 2-3 finish with pole-sitter George Russell claiming the final podium spot. With no grip, Leclerc just wasn't able to carry the pace at the front and was left to wonder what could have been. Early on, the Scuderia pulled in Carlos Sainz Jr. on medium tires well before they were going off in order to then let Charles Leclerc pit later and allow the latter to come out in front.

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- 20. Pierre Gasly will start in the pit lane. “Why I wake up every single day because feelings like this are something you can’t really dream of.” While Russell, the 24-year-old who is always careful to keep a tight rein on his emotions, was lit up with pleasure. Masi quit F1 last month to return home to Australia, and has now revealed the scale of abuse he has received. - 20. - 12. - 11. - 10. Having the two Ferrari’s around us means they can do as they please but I’m just going to be going as fast as I can. Here come the variables. Pierre Gasly drags from the pit lane, and there’s a virtual safety as Alex Albon hit Lance Stroll. Russell held Sainz off with a very defensive move, and now he must defend further.

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- - - - - - - - - But Leclerc was given a second chance, despite blasting the state of the tyres. Then on lap 31, Leclerc made it stick. As the lap counter hit the high teens, Leclerc's pace was declining.

Max Verstappen won the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix from P10 with pitch-perfect execution of Red Bull's strategy, while Lewis Hamilton finished second ahead of ...

Russell soon found himself in the clutches of his team mate and now we had an intra-team battle for P2 at Mercedes, Hamilton getting a better exit from Turn 1 on Lap 65 and prying the place away – team boss Toto Wolff watching on from the Mercedes garage. Russell was right on the diffuser of Leclerc’s Ferrari in the fight for P3, and on Lap 54 he made the move for P2 with ease around the outside of Turn 1. At the penultimate corner, a puff of smoke signalled that all was not right as Verstappen got on the throttle and spun 360 degrees, putting him back behind Leclerc and allowing Russell a chance to overtake Verstappen at Turn 1. It was then that Verstappen broke the seal and went for an aggressive undercut strategy by pitting for another set of mediums, Leclerc reacting to pit for hards on Lap 40 and Russell changing to mediums a few seconds later. Hamilton decided to pit at the end of that tour, diving in for a set of softs and emerging fifth ahead of Perez. Sainz chose to take his second stop on Lap 48 for softs, but the tyre change was slow and saw him emerge fifth ahead of Perez – who had stopped five laps prior. Russell’s lead over Leclerc was dropping as the Monegasque driver turned up the pace and on Lap 27 the Ferrari was in DRS range of the Mercedes, having a look but declining not to pass into Turn 1. They say that when it rains, it pours, and Russell now had Sainz and Verstappen catching up to his rear wing – while numerous drivers began to report drizzle on their visors at the halfway mark. The lights went out to end the feverous anticipation, Russell holding off a charging Sainz, who tried to pry the lead around the outside of Turn 1 while Hamilton cleared the Alpines – Fernando Alonso baulking at Esteban Ocon squeezing him at Turn 1 – to go into fifth, Verstappen up to eighth and Perez ninth after Lap 1. Sainz took his stop on Lap 17 but it wasn’t ideal either and he was released between the Alpines in P6, with Alonso and Verstappen behind him. Russell led on soft tyres and pitted on Lap 15, soft-shod Verstappen pitting from P5 a lap later to force Carlos Sainz to pit from the lead. Alonso exclaimed that he was “much faster” than Ocon but on Lap 5 the two-time champion ran wide at Turn 3 and Verstappen swept by for P7.

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Formula One champion Max Verstappen overcame a spin and his worst starting spot of the season to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. His eighth win of ...

Sebastian Vettel of Aston Martin was 10th. "Unbelievable Max, that is right up there with your best," Red Bull team principal Christian Horner replied. Russell, who started from the pole for the first time in his career, led 30 laps until Leclerc passed him on the outside as dark clouds rolled over the Hungaroring circuit and a light rain began to fall. Formula One champion Max Verstappen overcame a spin and his worst starting spot of the season to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. His eighth win of the season pushed Verstappen's lead to 80 points over Charles Leclerc as F1 heads into its mid-season break. Verstappen's eighth win of the season was the 28th of the Dutchman's career. Mercedes placed both its cars on the podium for the second straight race; seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton carved his way from seventh to a second-place finish, teammate and pole-sitter George Russell was third.

Starting from 10th after a loss of power in qualifying, the Red Bull driver tore through the field at the Hungaroring in Budapest to secure his second straight ...

Hopefully, we can bring some more into the second half of the season and start fighting with them." It was a crazy race but, of course, very happy we won it." "I'm sure there's a lot I will look over and I could have done better ... we pitted quite early on both stints, so you're trying to eat the tire out to the end, trying to push as hard as possible at the same time. A bit of a challenging position to be in but nevertheless pleased to come away with a podium." Though Leclerc seized upon the slip to jump ahead, Verstappen had taken the place back two laps later and never looked back. "I was battling a lot of guys and it was a lot of fun out there.

Max Verstappen leads the drivers championship by 80 points from Charles Leclerc after the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Complete results from the Hungarian Grand Prix, which was won by Max Verstappen for Red Bull from 10th place on the grid.

Russell, however, was undercut by Verstappen, who then passed Leclerc on the following lap to claim the net lead – which he briefly gave away with a spin. 8 Fernando Alonso Alpine 1 LAP Rain appeared to be not too far away when the race began, but everyone started on dry tyres and pole-sitter Russell led until changing his soft tyres for mediums on lap 16.

Max Verstappen has won the Hungarian Grand Prix for Red Bull ahead of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.

DRIVERS1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing)2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes)3 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes)

I think all of that played a role in the opportunities of overtaking more than compared to let's say, it would have been a sunny day. But of course, more importantly, we have to keep the lead in the Championship. That's, of course, what we have to try and secure. And from my side as well, I always try to get the best result out of it and the team as well. And then we got the VSC as well, so you lose even more tyre time so that last lap was yeah, it was driven really slowly, just to make sure that you wouldn't spin But I think we have a lot of good guys in the team and girls. And also, it was anyway, it was a bit difficult to predict, going into the race. I think probably the race was lost probably with the first stint, with that Medium tyre, but then towards the second and the third part of the race was pretty epic. And then towards the end on the Mediums and the rain started to come down I really struggled and losing a bit of temperature. Last week, just getting the second place last week was huge for us already, and this is already, now two races in a row that George and I have shared a podium, which is fantastic for the team, points-wise. With a bit of a better qualifying, if the DRS was OK yesterday, we would have been in the running for the win. I was hoping it was going to rain at the end so I could challenge Max, but we ran out of laps. Coming out of the second last corner we heard you on the radio saying that you just lost the rear.