Race Notes – Hamilton takes fifth win

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Lewis Hamilton, Hungarian GP 2016 

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Lewis Hamilton, after taking the lead into the first corner of the race, took a commanding win in his Mercedes GP, ahead of his team mate Nico Rosberg in second place – 1.977 seconds. Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull-Tag Heurer finished in third, 27.539s behind the winner.

The win is Hamilton’s fifth Hungarian GP win, and his fifth win of the season. The two Mercedes drivers now both have five wins this season and Hamilton now leads the drivers world championship leading into the summer break.

The win is Hamilton’s 48 career victory.

Sebastian Vettel (28.2s) in the Ferrari finished right behind Ricciardo in fourth, followed by Max Verstappen (48.6s) in the second Red Bull in fifth, Kimi Raikkonen (49.0s) in the second Ferrari in sixth, Fernando Alonso (1 lap) in the McLaren-Honda in seventh, Carlos Sainz in the Toro Rosso-Ferrari in eighth, Valtteri Bottas in the Williams-Mercedes in ninth, and Nico Hulkenberg in the Force India-Mercedes taking the final points position in tenth.

Before the start, the heat on the new pavement will make conditions difficult for the race – after the wet-dry qualifying session yesterday.

Pirelli predicting a two-stop race this afternoon.

Marcus Ericsson will start from the pit lane after the team changed his chassis after his qualifying accident yesterday.

Polesitter Rosberg has never finished on the podium at Hungary, while his team mate Hamilton starts in second on the front row. Ricciardo and Verstappen make up the second row for Red Bull, Vettel and Sainz on row three, Alonso and Button on row four for McLaren, and Hulkenberg and Bottas round out the top ten on the grid. The top 11 drivers start on supersoft tyres, while the rest are a mix of soft and supersoft compound tyres.

At 2pm the drivers made their way around on the formation lap, and the lights went out and the race started with Hamilton taking the inside for the lead with Ricciardo coming around the outside to take second. At turn 2 Rosberg comes back and retakes second place.

At the end of lap 1 Hamilton leads Rosberg, Ricciardo, Verstappen, Vettel, Alonso, Sainz, Button, Bottas and Hulkenberg in tenth place.

By lap 3 Hamilton has pulled out a 1.4 second lead over Rosberg.

On lap 4 Hamilton sets fast lap at 1m26.700 seconds. Button reports to the team that he is having issues – the team reports hydraulic issues but to stay out. Button tells the team “the race from hell this will be.”

Verstappen reports that he is driving like a “grandma”, having …

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