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KEY MOMENTS
* Rain before the start of the race influenced all the strategies today,
with the grand prix getting underway on a damp track. Everyone went to the
grid on the Cinturato green intermediate tyre, apart from the Haas of Kevin
Magnussen on the blue full wets.
* At the end of the formation lap, both Haas cars went to the pits for P
Zero Yellow medium slick tyres. Their early switch meant that both Haas cars
were running in third and fourth places throughout the opening stages of the
race, after all the other drivers changed to slicks on a rapidly-drying
track.
* There were four different strategies in the top five places. Hamilton was
the last of the frontrunners to stop, making a third and final pit stop for
P Zero Red soft tyres, to chase the point for fastest lap. * His team mate
Valtteri Bottas, who finished on the podium, also made a third stop to try
and get past Max Verstappen. The Red Bull driver was second with just two
stops: despite crashing en route to the grid.
As the race started with wet-weather tyres, the rules no longer obliged
drivers to run two different types of slick tyres during the grand prix.
HOW EACH TYRE PERFORMED
HARD C2: Used by the majority of the drivers for the final stint and an
integral part of the strategy from the beginning of the weekend, with only
three finishers not using it in the race (including Hamilton). Alpha Tauri’s
Daniil Kvyat completed more than 50 laps on a set of the P Zero White hard
to the finish
MEDIUM C3: Most drivers switched straight to this compound after removing
the intermediate at the start of the race. There were some long stints seen
on this tyre too, with Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo running it twice to score
points in eighth.
SOFT C4: Hamilton was the only driver to use this in the top 10 at the flag,
benefitting from the extra speed of the red compound to secure the point for
fastest lap on the final tour, also setting a new race lap record at the
Hungaroring and taking the lead of the championship.
INTERMEDIATE: Used by all the drivers to get away from the grid, but only
for a few laps afterwards as the track was drying rapidly – making an early
switch to slicks profitable..
MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF F1 AND CAR RACING
“The overnight rain that persisted into this morning washed away any rubber
that had been laid down, so we had a green and slippery track for the start
of the race, which was run in quite cool conditions. However, the surface
dried quickly, which was pivotal to the strategy. Uncertainty over the
weather remained though, which led some drivers to extend their stints, just
in case they needed to switch to intermediates again. In the end, it stayed
dry for the whole race and so we saw a certain degree of degradation on the
front tyres in particular, which is to be expected in these unusual
conditions. Most drivers stopped twice but some chose to stop three times,
looking for extra performance to pass a rival or claim the championship
point for fastest lap.” |
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EST TIME BY COMPOUND
HARD MEDIUM SOFT INTERMEDIATE
Bottas 1m17.665s Hamilton 1m18.611s Hamilton 1m16.627s Hamilton 1m31.458s
Stroll 1m18.973s Bottas 1m18.945s Latifi 1m22.058s Verstappen 1m33.264s
Verstappen 1m19.184s Ricciardo 1m19.532s Kvyat 1m23.781s Stroll 1m33.732s
LONGEST STINT OF THE RACE
COMPOUND DRIVER LAPS
HARD C2 Kvyat 51
MEDIUM C3 Ricciardo 39
SOFT C4 Leclerc 18
INTERMEDIATE Norris, Ricciardo, Verstappen, Ocon, Giovinazzi, Russell 4
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