Formula 1: Round 11 - Hungarian Grand Prix

amacachi

14/1 Button was on Friday evening, sigh.

bnt

That's overstating it a little: Hamiton's driving makes for better TV, but the BBC commentators have pointed out the downside on many occasions, and certainly didn't begrudge Button his victory in Canada (for example).

Autosport

Button has 8sec lead

Grim.

Autosport wrote: »

Vettel might be greedy and want the win

na he tried to push to close in, button responded vettel settled for 2nd

amacachi

Coming up to lap a train of cars, one shortcuts the chicane, really was a lot like Monaco.

Autosport

Hamilton is on a flyer

Autosport

Button has a 9sec lead now, come on Button

Autosport

Come on Button, we have cake

Grim.

vettel edgeing closer to a one hundred point lead

bnt

Yep - Vettel's dialled back, still 20 sec ahead of Alonso.

Coulthard's reading my mind: just two laps till Button has some Champagne to go with that Cake.

El Inho

Autosport wrote: »

Vettel might be greedy and want the win

he's too smart for that mans a legend

Autosport

Traffic interfer with those 2

bnt

Jenson wins his 200th Grand Prix: Let Him Eat Cake! :pac:

Autosport

bnt wrote: »

Jenson wins his 200th Grand Prix: Let Him Eat Cake! :pac:

Couldnt have said it better

amacachi

Maybe others will disagree but after the worries for McLarens' in-season development they've won 3 of the last 5 races while Red Bull are falling back.

Grim.

delighted for button brilliant drive

Autosport

Love the new Haircut Jensen, Brilliant race, did think we would have more rain but still it was a good race

Grim.

my money is on a maca to win at spa aswell cool changeable conditions seem to suit the car perfectly

amacachi

Grim. wrote: »

my money is on a maca to win at spa aswell cool changeable conditions seem to suit the car perfectly

One wonders about the in-season development of the top teams. Coupla poor races and Hamilton gives out that McLaren aren't developing the car properly and now they've won 3/5 races while RB's quali advantage has shrunk and their race pace is almost gone.


Right now my main problem with this season is what I've been given out for a while and it's reliability. RB can manage everything easily now whereas if the engines weren't so stupidly limited they'd be having failures or facing falling out of the top 5 or 6. With the rules the way they are there's no chance of Vettel being caught now alas.

Grim.

amacachi wrote: »

One wonders about the in-season development of the top teams. Coupla poor races and Hamilton gives out that McLaren aren't developing the car properly and now they've won 3/5 races while RB'ss quali advantage has shrunk and their race pace is almost gone.

no doubt the car has come on leaps and bounds in recent months, but i'm still curious to see how it uses its tyres on a properly hot track

Glico Man

amacachi wrote: »

One wonders about the in-season development of the top teams. Coupla poor races and Hamilton gives out that McLaren aren't developing the car properly and now they've won 3/5 races while RB's quali advantage has shrunk and their race pace is almost gone.


Right now my main problem with this season is what I've been given out for a while and it's reliability. RB can manage everything easily now whereas if the engines weren't so stupidly limited they'd be having failures or facing falling out of the top 5 or 6. With the rules the way they are there's no chance of Vettel being caught now alas.

To be honest the RB was so far ahead at the start, maybe they're finding it hard to improve it. While on the flip side, the McLaren struggled early on so there's much more scope for improvement for them

Autosport

Nice to see Lews apologise to Paul, seems to have matured alot over the latter half of the season. Delighted for Jensen tho

I wonder who they will have on the forum

Chris Martin

Yeah Lewis kinda shot himself in the foot towards the end with inters.
Drive through didnt help either but drive through wouldnt have made that big a difference, gap between himself and Alonso, who on the whole had quite a race as well.
Eventful one, especially with the Heidfeld inferno early on at end of pit lane, made things interesting..
Thought it was harsh enough on Hamilton to get the drive through but rules are rules I suppose, cant see any other way of him doing it like...
Fair play for getting past Webber so late on as well but you have to feel for him, had it in the bag at one stage.
Also a very good race from Di Resta, best thus far if I'm not mistaken so fair play in regards to that.
Massa although had a spill early on, all in all, some brilliant driving from himself.
Sebastian Buemi though.
23rd to 8th...
Deserves an award of his own just for that.
Brilliant race in my opinion, brief spells of rain kept me on my toes.
Have it recorded anyway so chances are I'll have a look over it again later too. In my opinion though, one of the best yet, rivals the Canadian, being a Button & Hamilton fan though, (being English) the reasons why aren't hidden well.
To summarize, brilliant GP & many more to come I hope

GTE

Autosport wrote: »

Nice to see Lews apologise to Paul, seems to have matured alot over the latter half of the season.

Di Resta has been publicly looking for an apology off Heidfeld so the suspicious side of me is wondering does that have something to do with Hamiltons very clear willingness to apologise.

Good race though, I was shocked at how bad the cars were on the inters.

Myrddin

Great race, Hamilton's race was over when they chose to stay with the option tyre instead of going for a run to the end on primes.

Sweet drive by Button, again showing everyone he's the master of uncertainty. Chuffed for him, even though the end result plays into Vettels hands.

Schumacher & Rosberg got amazing starts, if only that car had more pace

Great race overall, pity about the three week hiatus now as well as the cancelled season opener. Pity Bernie couldn't have sorted out a race for the summer gap as we're already down a promised GP.

Bernie Eccelstone - Believe In Better
Sky - Believe In Bernie

rua1972

Very good race to watch. The first laps were nice because you could see the drivers struggling for grip. There were good fights along the field, thanks to the weather and tyrechoices.
What happend to Heidfeld's car is a bit unclear, obviously the engine blew, but Eric was criptical about it. Looked like old times though.
Around the third pitstop fase when some changed to prime and others to options, it was clear to me that the primes would last to the end. The short change to inters ruined hamiltons chances of winning. In the end a deserved win by Jenson, since it's his 200th grand prix. When i checked twitter on my phone this morning and saw tweets about rain, my first thought was that it would be good for Button. It worked out.
With all the different winners the last races it will be difficult to see someone other than Vettel taking the championship, specially if he keeps finishing in the points.

Mike Litoris

Great race AGAIN and great win for Button. I never thought I'd see great races from the Nurb and Hungary in the same season.

smokingman

"WOW it's BRACING!"



Delighted for Button and he's starting to show people that he does actually have some talent as opposed to being "just a guy in one of the best cars".
Great race too....gonna miss it for the next while.

losthorizon

amacachi wrote: »

That thas to be a penalty for Hamilton. Sweet Jesus I don't think I've ever seen such ridiculous driving.

You havent? 40 seconds in! He knew what he was doing all right. He has a history of doing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlgipON2Pow