Lewis Hamilton

Max Verstappen says he did not expect to win a "crazy" Hungarian Grand Prix after starting the race in 10th on the grid.

"That's where I lost the race basically. "Honestly the pace on my side, I was pretty happy. "I don't know why, we went on the hards. I don't know why we took a different decision. "I said on the radio I was comfortable on the medium and I wanted to go as long as possible on those tyres because the feeling was good. "When it started spitting and we were on the soft tyres at the start I thought we were on," he said.

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But either way, two seconds in a row, I'm really, really happy." [I] had a really good start as well." When asked where his late-race speed had come from, the Mercedes driver explained: "I honestly don't know.

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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.

LEWIS HAMILTON achieved yet another podium in Hungary to continue his hot streak for Mercedes.

"I was battling a lot of guys so it was a lot of fun out there. On a mid-race spin that could have gone horribly wrong, he added: "I was struggling with the clutch and shifts, we had to change a few things to not burn the clutch. We had some good out laps and at the end we won." The Ferrari star was again hampered by questionable calls from his team, and he tumbled from leading the race at one stage to finishing in P6. At the end of the interview, David Coulthard picked up on a tear in Hamilton's suit at the elbow. I was hoping it was going to rain at the end so I could challenge Max, but we ran out of laps.

Lewis Hamilton felt as though his pace was strong enough to challenge for a race victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with him ruing a DRS issue on ...

I can’t tell you exactly why, but grateful for it,” said Lewis after the race. “So a bit of a better qualifying if the DRS was okay yesterday, we would have been in the run for the win. Lewis Hamilton felt as though his pace was strong enough to challenge for a race victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with him ruing a DRS issue on Saturday.

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"When it started spitting at the beginning and I was on the soft tyres I thought it was on," he said. With a bit of a better qualifying, if the DRS was okay, we would have been in the run for the win. It was challenging to manage the tyres as we were pitting quite early on both stints, so you're trying to eke your tyres out to the end while pushing as much as possible at the same time. But I got more comfortable with the balance and had a really good start as well. After all, this was the first time all year a Mercedes has genuinely been in the hunt for a race win. He overtook the Ferrari before moving past team-mate George Russell, but a late virtual safety car took the sting out of his charge and made sure leader Max Verstappen was safe.

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“Knowing you’re on soft tyres I was rubbing my hands, pulled a gap to Carlos and then the rain stopped. The fact Max spun and finished 10 seconds ahead says enough, but we’ve still made huge progress and so to have consistency and two double podiums in the last two races gives us great hope.” “To start seventh and get up here is a great recovery.

Seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton breaks a 60-year-old F1 record held by Bill Vukovich during the Hungarian Grand Prix.

We are moving FORWARD and that win is getting CLOSER! Thank you to all the fans, hope you enjoyed that one 💥💥 pic.twitter.com/PwIdw5c8sr He stated: “I don’t know why we were so fast in the second part of the race.” Although I had a very good start.”

He is known to have a garage full of exotic luxury supercars including extremely rare ones. He also once had a private jet — a cherry-red Bombardier Challenger ...

In a 2020 Instagram post, he spoke about his journey toward living a greener and healthier lifestyle. In 2016, the British F1 star was named in the infamous Paradise Papers. NBC reports that the leaked documents showed Hamiliton had "avoided paying more than $4 million in taxes for a private jet," after importing the jet to the Isle of Man in 2013. Fans were able to get peeks of the exclusive jet, as Hamilton frequently posted photos of him posing alongside it as well as showing off his vegan bulldog Coco, who was a regular passenger on board.

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Latifi’s highlight of the weekend was going quickest in FP3 in the wet conditions. Schumacher was one of the few drivers that tried out the hards and that ultimately proved to be the wrong decision. Another collision on the opening lap meant Magnussen was forced to stop early for repairs. The Frenchman was aggressive at the start before settling in ahead of his teammate. The Australian struggled on his hard tyres out of the pits, understeering into the Aston Martin as a result. Haas simply didn’t have the pace as he dropped off from the leading 10 cars, holding up Bottas in the future. Race day was better for Perez as the Mexican came alive in the final stint of the race. Running without the new Alfa Romeo floor, Zhou did well to get within a tenth of Bottas in Q2. Like his teammate, Zhou made a shocking start, dropping down to 17th. Russell was overtaken by Hamilton in the closing laps but it was still a great weekend overall. A DRS issue in qualifying put Hamilton out of position on the grid. One of Verstappen’s best drives in F1. Starting from 10th on the grid, the reigning F1 champion made the most of Red Bull’s aggressive strategy to start on the softs before switching to the mediums at his next two pit stops. Sainz managed to out-qualify his teammate but his race pace was disappointed.

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"But if we're able to take this pace into the second half of the season, for sure, we can start to fight with these guys." "If we had both been up there we could have worked a bit better together as a team, one of us would have been able to support the other strategy-wise. The seven-time champion is the only driver to have claimed a win in each of his years racing in the sport.

LEWIS HAMILTON secured his sixth podium of the season after a comeback drive at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff claims without the setbacks Hamilton could have gone on to win the team’s first Grand Prix of the season. Hamilton suffered a DRS issue in qualifying which hampered his chances to fight for the pole. Hopefully, we'll bring some more into the second part of the season and start fighting with the guys in front."

LEWIS HAMILTON was back in the podium cool down room after picking up P2 at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

“They would have been slower to the medium for 10, 11 laps. Ferrari put Charles Leclerc on the hard tyres for his third stint in a decision which dramatically backfired. In a puzzled tone, the seven-time champion said: “Ferrari were on the hards?

MAX VERSTAPPEN extended his lead at the F1 summit to 80 points, but Lewis Hamilton also dazzled in an entertaining Hungarian Grand Prix.

Disaster struck for Japanese prospect Yuki Tsunoda when a spin at Turn 7 appeared to derail his race. The victim of misplaced direction from his superiors, Leclerc will rue Hungary as a missed opportunity for both him and Ferrari on the whole. The Spaniard might have finished even lower, too, were it not for a late Virtual Safety Car. If there was any race that deserved to define Verstappen's second straight world championship, a resurgence from 10th to first in Hungary might be as good as it gets. Verstappen deservedly won plaudits for his audacious grid comeback, but Hamilton deserves similar praise for clawing back a runner-up finish from seventh. Mercedes, meanwhile, continued to improve after Lewis Hamilton and George Russell both claimed podium places for the second straight weekend.