Sunday, July 28, 2013

Hamilton's first win with Mercedes. - 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix

Hi to all the readers of this first of many Formula 1 Grand Prix reviews!
First I introduce myself:
My name is Arturo Medrano. I live in Mexico, I am a big fan of baseball, ice hockey and this blog's topic: Formula 1 Racing.
I've watched F1 races on 2007 and 2008 but then I missed 2009 and 2010 seasons. Then I got back to see races in 2011 and since Italy 2012 I've never missed a single race.
My Favorite driver is Kimi.
Lets start!


HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX
The race started and Lewis Hamilton showed a pretty solid lead during the first 9 laps until his eventual pit stop.
Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean put up a very nice pressure to both Massa and Vettel, respectively. Romain took the lead of the race as Vettel stopped, then the frenchmen and Kimi stopped in lap 13.
McLaren showed a good race with Jenson Button finding himself in P3 at lap 17.
In lap 20 Grosjean again attacked Vettel as the German had been struggling with KERS.
Mark Webber was leading but blistering on his front-right tyre was noticeably at lap 21. The Australian stopped in 24th lap and Lewis Hamilton retook the lead.
Vettel overtook Button and right after that, there was some contact between Jenson and 4th place Grosjean. Button eventually would stop in the next lap. Grosjean also stopped in lap 26.
Hamilton built a 13-second lead over Vettel but Red Bull's driver managed to cut Lewis lead to 11.7 seconds until the British boxed in the 31st lap.
Gearbox problem caused Esteban Gutierrez' abandon.
Vettel and Alonso boxed in lap 34 and Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes would retake the lead once again.
The incident between Grosjean and Button, where Romain had to get out of the track and overtook Button, ended in an unfair drive-through for Romain.
Another drive-through penalty would be given to Nico Hulkenberg for speeding in the pit lane.

Finnish driver Kimi Räikkönen found himself in P3 in lap 42 but he stopped to change tyres for the harder compound.
Hamilton boxed a few laps after Kimi, Vettel would retake the lead but Lewis would get the lead back as Sebastian stopped in 55th lap, he would lose 4th position to Räikkönen but only for a 2.8 second gap.
60th lap brought Mark Webber's stop, the end to an unusual strategy by Red Bull with Mark using harder compounds until his last stop.

The race for the 2nd position between Räikkönen and Vettel would get intense in the last laps with the German cutting the gap to 0.7 seconds and then to 0.5 in the final lap.

Lewis Hamilton got, a well deserved win in Hungaroring. Brilliant job on both the Qualification and the Race.
Kimi would hold on tight to maintain P2.
And Vettel would arrive to the podium in 3rd.

With this result, 'Iceman' would take 2nd position in the Drivers' Championship away from Alonso for 1 point and would cut Vettel's lead to 38 points.
Prediction: RAI HAM VET
                  HAM RAI VET
I only got 3rd place right. 

Now, we'll have to wait a very long time until the Belgian Grand Prix.
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