Irres Hungary Race: Vettel second behind Ocon - winner Esteban

Vierfold Champion Vettel had to give himself in a rousing Grand Prix of Hungary on Sunday only the 24-year-old French sensation winner Esteban Ocon in Alpine. The 34-year-old lacked at Hungaroring in the Aston Martin 1.8 seconds.

"I tried it all the time tries, trying. I'm sorry, guys," Specked Vettel to the box before he had to turn off the car on the outlet round. Third was Hamilton in Mercedes in front of Carlos Sainz Junior in the Ferrari and the 40-year-old Spanish returner Fernando Alonso in the second alpine.

Siebenfach-World Champion Hamilton, who was started by the Pole for the 101th time, had in the meantime on the last place, on his 100th Grand Prix victory he has to wait. For the conquest of the World Cup lead, however, it handed forward for the British with six points ahead of the British, because rival max stages belonged to the affected of the kick-off crash, triggered by Hamilton's teammates Valtteri Bottas. With a damaged Red Bull, the Dutchman dragged himself as a tenth. Mick Schumacher held silent in the delicate race and became in Haas 13.

The first bangs looks did not go direction curve one immediately before the start, but in the sky. In the morning, there had been partly fierce thunderstorms about Budapest and also for the initial phase of the race was predicted. Condition for stages? The fact that he and also teammate Sergio Perez had to start with the softest tires, also called: full of attack mode, past Hamilton after the 101th Pole and the qualification-second bottas, quickly turn out a lead and raise the more durable tires.

Then he came, the rain. The several tens of thousand spectators moved to the grandstands partially Capes over, on the so-called Grid ruled hectic. The possibly preliminary question: which tires? Rain or the mixing rubber for humidity, but not wet asphalt? Almost all chose the second variant, the so-called intermediates with the green marker.

Bottas crash in Norris, also damaged stages

From a mass crash with a lot of sheet metal, but luckily without personal damage she did not stop it. And trigger was again a Mercedes. This time, Bottas crashed after a snail start to the stern of Lando Norris, which had passed by his McLaren on Finn. "I should have braked earlier, it was my mistake," Bottas said, apologizing for his rivals.

Because what he triggered was Formula 1 Domino. At the front, Hamilton was still escaped the curved accidental accident, they crashed Norris into the car of stages, Bottas slipped into the Red Bull of Perez, a little further behind it congested Lance Stroll in the Aston Martin with the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.

Curve one on the 4,381 kilometer long course at Budapest pleased a rubble field - parked race cars and depressed pilots. Bottas, Perez, Leclerc and Stroll could not continue. The Safety Car had to get out, the race was interrupted and, above all, the red-bull mechanics tried to repair the considerable damage from stages even with tape. For a quarter of an hour, they had time, then it went back to the formation round and in the starting position according to the order of interruption.

Meanwhile, the route was dried and almost all came to the box to switch to dry tires. Only one does not: Hamilton. Alone he stood there with his mixed tires and drove off. The rest followed from the pit lane. Why not Mercedes had changed the tires directly, Hamilton seemed to have been responsible. He came in and out after a lap and out. "Sorry, people," Hamilton sparked to the box.

Almost 20 seconds separated him from place one, where Ocon drove, Vettel was behind it, on three was Nicholas Latifi in Williams. For the time being, Mick Schumacher started in the point lengths in place ten - before stages, which initially had to get over.

Hamilton catching hunting of Alonso long braked

At the next tire change, Hamilton and Mercedes were then golden and made two places well in the box alone. And the 36-year-old Briton, who already won in Hungary eight times, remained in attacks, the World Cup leadership came closer to every successful overtaking maneuver, while stages had to fight with his demolished Red Bull as a competition.

From the leadership trio, Vettel was the first to go to the next tire change, but his stop took a second longer than that of Ocon a lap later. Hamilton also came in and went on the whole. "Lewis, you can win that," Team boss TOTO WOLFF switched on even in boxing radio. At Alonso, however, was the first time, the former teammates at McLaren (2008) was a club-hard duel, marriage Hamilton past four laps past the end of the race. Further, it did not work for him, while at the very front Ocon broke out into unruly jubilation. ## Fangio, Schumacher, Vettel - Impressions from 71 years Formula 1