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Ricciardo wins dramatic GP in wet Hungary
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AUSTRALIAN Daniel Ricciardo won the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix for Red Bull yesterday while Lewis Hamilton roared from pitlane to podium in another astonishing performance by the Mercedes driver.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was second — his second runner-up spot for the season — and championship leader Nico Rosberg, who started on pole for Mercedes, came fourth and saw his lead over Hamilton cut from 14 points to 11.
Instead of Rosberg and Mercedes running away with it, the race ran away from Rosberg with his team beaten for only the second time in 11 grands prix.
Ricciardo, a revelation in his first year at Red Bull, took the checkered flag 5.2 seconds ahead of the Spaniard for his second win of the season.
“It feels as good as the first win, it really does,” beamed the Australian, who took his first win in Canada, after a roller-coaster of a race with two safety car periods and plenty of incident.
All of the top four had led over the course of a race that started after a brief downpour, was hit by two big crashes, continued with the ever-present threat of rain and finished on a knife-edge.
Ricciardo, who had led earlier in the race and was on fresher tires, swept past Hamilton three laps from the end and overtook a determined Alonso to regain the lead for good with two laps to go.
Behind them, Rosberg — who had also made three stops to Alonso and Hamilton’s two — was closing in remorselessly and was all over the back of his teammate’s car as they started the final lap.
Hamilton hung on, after earlier disregarding calls from the team to let Rosberg pass because the German still had one more pitstop to make, to seize a podium finish that had looked improbable on Saturday. “I was just pushing as hard as I could to see if I could get as high as I could,” said Hamilton, who had won for the last two years in Hungary and finished third in Germany last weekend after starting 20th.
The Briton had to start from the pitlane — and behind Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen whose McLaren was also moved off the grid — after his car caught fire in qualifying before he had completed a lap.
Brazilian Felipe Massa of Williams finished fifth ahead of Finn Kimi Raikkonen, in the second Ferrari, defending four time champion German Sebastian Vettel in the second Red Bull and Finn Valtteri Bottas of Williams.
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