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ROUND 10: HUNGARIAN GP
Qualifying
Hamilton sets the early pace with only Button anywhere near. Ricciardo is super fast and comes close to pole. Rosberg is hugely quick in sector 1 but is blocked. On his second lap his tyres have already gone off and he has to settle for 4th. Max Verstappen is 5th despite losing time on his lap.

Starting Grid
1.Hamilton
2.Ricciardo +0.160
3.Button +0.235
4.Rosberg +0.366
5.Raikkonen +0.724
6.Verstappen +0.761
7.Vettel +0.845
8.Alonso +0.961
9.Massa +1.277
10.Nasr +1.405
11.Ericsson +1.482
12.Hulkenberg +1.879
13.Magnussen +2.081
14.Wehrlein +2.122
15.Perez +2.132
16.Palmer +2.235
17.Grosjean +2.921
18.Gutierrez +3.321
19.Bottas +3.686
20.Haryanto +3.721
21.Sainz +3.811
26.Kvyat +25.228


Race Day
Verstappen is up to 3rd at the start with Rosberg down to 6th. Haryanto has made another of his good starts to 13th while Bottas, the Haas and Kvyat fill positions 23-26! Grosjean spins off at turn 4 to last.

Rosberg climbs to 3rd challenging Ricciardo but pits first on lap 18 to 11th.

On lap 27 Haryanto is the first retirement as Hamilton pits. Since Ricciardo already pitted from 2nd two laps earlier, this promotes Button to the race lead, which he holds for 6 laps until his stop! Rosberg is massively quicker, at least 2sec per lap, and Nico now takes the lead. Button and Vettel are both trying an audacious strategy of pitting till the end of the race - a very long time. Button has now fallen behind Vettel in 6th.

Now Hamilton is quickest and has relieved Rosberg of the lead. Ricciardo is now challenging Rosberg but suddenly spins from 3rd at the penultimate corner. He loses 45sec to 6th. Hulkenberg, Wehrlein and the strongly performing Saubers are all out by now (lap 37).

Suddenly we have a very weird situation where a backmarker (a Forza Rossa) will cause everyone who tries to lap it to suddenly start driving really weird lines all over the place and being slow. This is a bug that happens once in a while, but I consider it fair game, as it's now effectively... a wet race!! Raikkonen spins from 3rd, so does a lapped Massa, almost hitting Vettel. Hulkenberg spins at the final turn, then so does Bottas. He spins across the track and is smashed into by Button, and Grosjean too. All 3 are out. Magnussen flies off the track and Ricciardo has another excursion. Sudden excitement here as this bunches up the field and creates unpredicatbility otherwise lacking in an AI game. Magnussen has now retired too.

Rosberg gets past Vettel for 2nd as Verstappen goes off at turn 5. Ricciardo spins a few laps later and is hit by a lapped Massa, then Kvyat too. Contact is gentle and all 3 continue. But there are now only 13 runners left. Gutierrez is the only one from the bottom 2 teams left.

Perez retires from 13th and last in an unrelated failure while Ricciardo and Massa have got past the troublesome backmarker. Things haven't righted themselves yet as Alosno goes wide at the final turn being passed by Kvyat for 6th.

Now Hamilton has caught the backmarker but after a few wobbles makes it past and his lines are auto-corected. Alonso struggles and Verstappen passes him, but Alonso repasses. Now Ricciardo has crashed with a completely different backmarker and both are out. There are now only 11 runners left. Alonso and Palmer get through the backmarker but now it's Rosberg's turn. He is 14 sec ahead of Vettel but has to pit again in 10 laps or so. But things have righted themselves back to normal again it seems as everyone is lapping normally. It's a dry race again.

Things are more normal now and Hamilton finally takes his first win since Australia, but only cuts 7pts into Rosberg's lead.


Result
1.Hamilton
2.Rosberg +23.511
3.Vettel -1 lap
4.Kvyat -1 lap
5.Raikkonen -1 lap
6.Verstappen -1 lap
7.Alonso -1 lap
8.Massa -2 laps
9.Palmer -2 laps
10.Sainz -2 laps
11.Gutierrez -3 laps
R.Ricciardo - DNF
R.Perez - Transmission
R.Button - DNF
R.Bottas - DNF
R.Magnussen - DNF
R.Grosjean - DNF
R.Wehrlein - DNF
R.Ericsson - DNF
R.Nasr - DNF
R.Hulkenberg - DNF
R.Haryanto - Water Leak

Fastest Lap Top 3: Hamilton, Rosberg, Ricciardo


Championship Standings after Round 10
Drivers
1.Rosberg - 171pts
2.Vettel - 158pts
3.Hamilton - 112pts
4.Raikkonen - 103pts
5.Bottas - 65pts
6.Kvyat - 58pts
7.Massa - 56pts
8.Ricciardo - 52pts
9.Alonso - 46pts
10.Button - 36pts
11.Verstappen - 36pts
12.Sainz - 32pts
13.Perez - 32pts
14.Hulkenberg -32pts
15.Nasr - 10pts
16.Ericsson - 5pts
17.Wehrlein - 2pts
18.Palmer - 2pts
19.Magnussen - 1pt
20.Grosjean - 1pt
21.Gutierrez - best finish 11th
22.Haryanto - best finish 12th

Constructors
1.Mercedes - Mercedes - 283pts
2.Ferrari - Ferrari - 261pts
3.Williams - Mercedes - 121pts
4.Red Bull - Tag Heuer - 110pts
5.McLaren - Honda - 82pts
6.Toro Rosso - Ferrari - 68pts
7.Force India - Mercedes - 64pts
8.Sauber - Ferrari - 15pts
9.Renault - Renault - 3pts
10.Manor - Mercedes - 2pts
11.Haas - Ferrari - 1pt