Bojan Vrbnjak
formula 1 it continues to pamper us, though not to the extent it has done in the previous three races. But with Hungaroring, she said goodbye to the summer break in a good light. With a touch of humor, we could say that today Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen had as many as 18 extras in their fight for today's victory.
Lewis Hamilton he himself no longer believed in victory, he strongly doubted it when he was called to the pits at the second stop. He also doubts the victory when he approached Max with huge steps. “I really didn’t know if I could make up for those 19 seconds behind Max. I thought the tires would fail sooner. But I just pressed the gas and with a few qualifying rounds I was getting closer. ” Asked after the race how he was feeling, he said: “How do I feel? A little tired. Above all, I am full of great thanks to the team that always believes in me. They took a lot of risks today, hoping I would find out too. We have been together for seven years now and every victory still feels like the first. I believe Niki would take off her hat today. ”
Max Verstappen was on its way to victory, but just before the end, Mercedes ’strategy proved to be better. “Those tires are dead, ” was Max's message three laps before Lewis Hamilton overtook him. Even before he was brought to the pits, his racing engineer told him: “Max, they took a risk and it paid off. You raced great."Max replied casually,"Second place is still a great result as we scored a good number of points."When he took off his helmet in the pits, the young Dutchman added:"After all, we weren’t fast enough today. I did everything I could to keep the tires alive, but it wasn’t enough. Here at the Hungaroring we won the pole and then second place in the race, so we had a great weekend. Congratulations Lewis, he demanded everything from me today and that made me very happy. We didn’t win today, but we can be proud of what we showed. We tried a one-stop strategy, our competitors realized the opportunity and took it."
Sebastian Vettel was really unnoticed in today's race, but in the end he managed to win third place with a two-stop strategy, which he won two laps before the end, when he caught his teammate Leclerc, who was on a one-stop strategy. “We were on different strategies, but I had nothing to lose myself, as I was in a safe fourth place. Because of this, I put on a soft mixture of tires and caught up and overtook Charles. However, this is a very poor consolation, especially looking at the lag behind Lewis. The whole racing weekend here at the Hungaroring we weren’t fast enough, we were missing the vacuum. We have a lot of work to do until the first races after the summer break, which should suit us. ”
