2021 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix. Sunday 1st August at 14:00

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2021 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix

QUALIFYING.

1. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
2. Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes)
3. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
4. Sergio Perez (Red Bull)
5. Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri)
6. Lando Norris (McLaren)
7. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
8. Esteban Ocon (Alpine)
9. Fernando Alonso (Alpine)
10. Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin)
11. Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren)
12. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)
13. Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo)
14. Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo)
15. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)
16. Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri)
17. George Russell (Williams)
18. Nicholas Latifi (Williams)
19. Nikita Mazepin (Haas)
20. Mick Schumacher (Haas)

Race Sunday at 14:00

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Wet start. Drizzle, now actual rain. Not wet enough for wet tyres, possibly too wet for intermediates.


Lewis Hamilton gets good start. Max Verstappen goes too deep and gets damage after hitting Lando Norris. Lot of collisions and damage. Race suspended.
Lewis Hamilton has the advantage of being in front and avoided the carnage behind. Major incident for a lot of cars on the left side of the grid. Valtteri Bottas major damage and cannot continue. He has started a chain reaction that has damaged both Red Bulls and quite a few others. Could get a penalty for the next race.

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How they will restart

1 Lewis Hamilton
2 Esteban Ocon
3 Sebastian Vettel
4 Carlos Sainz
5 Yuki Tsunoda
6 Nicholas Latifi
7 Fernando Alonso
8 George Russell
9 Kimi Raikkonen
10 Mick Schumacher
11 Pierre Gasly
12 Daniel Ricciardo
13 Max Verstappen
14 Nikita Mazepin
15 Antonio Giovinazzi


OUT
Valtteri Bottas

Lance Stroll

Charles Leclerc

Sergio Perez

Lando Norris

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Max Verstappen has a lot of damage. Starting thirteenth, question of damage limitation and how much he can salvage from this race

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Track drying. Looks like everyone is pitting for dry tyres except for Lewis Hamilton. Strange.

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George Russell has a problem.
Lewis Hamilton pits. Comes out last.

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Esteban Ocon leads the Grand Prix. Mercedes perhaps has got it wrong.

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Lewis Hamiton being told Max Verstappen has a lot of damage and he can still win from last.

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George Russell has no problem but had to give up places because he overtook in the pit lane.

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Why didnt lewis pit at the same time as all the others?

He should have. Perhaps because he was in front it was not obvious and Mercedes thought the intermediate tyres would work for a few laps.