THE controversy of the Hungarian grand prix was over Lewis Hamilton not obeying team orders, as well as starting at the back of the grid and going from pits to podium.
His was a terrific drive and he was not happy when the team asked him to move over and let Nico Rosberg by.
His communication back to the pits was clever in that he requested that Rosberg must get closer to him before he allowed him by which Rosberg never actually did.
Meanwhile, the position that really counts is that of winning the race and it was a great triumph for Daniel Ricciardo.
He drove a blaster of a race, overtaking Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the last few laps, making it look like they didn’t exist.
He is really on a high as we go in to the latter half of the season after the summer break in four weeks’ time.
Alonso drove another ‘huge’ race, very professional and intelligent, as he changed to soft tyres at the halfway mark and made a break for it, getting himself into the lead for the latter part of the race before the smart youngster from Down Under came along and blew him off.
It really was a great and very exciting race at the Hungaroring, a circuit which is normally very hard to pass on, encouraging a procession. We had none of that and were given a superb display of top-class driving.
Rosberg was really miffed at Hamilton not letting him by and he could possibly have finished second if Hamilton had done so. The debate will rage on.
Rosberg had led from poll position for the early part of the race until tyre changes and the safety car allowed matters to change.
He drove another excellent race behind Hamilton and could have done better.
Behind Rosberg, the first of the Williams Mercedes, driven by Felipe Massa, came home in fifth place after teammate Valtteri Bottas, in the sister car, had given a very good performance in the early stages of the race.
He had been third on the grid but was compromised in the second half of the race by the safety car and his choice of tyres, which saw him finish in eighth position.
Kimi Raikkonen in his Ferrari generally drove a better race but was not able to bring his car home into better than sixth place, while Sebastian Vettel had a difficult race with an underperforming car and not such a wise gamble in choosing to finish the race without a final stop.
However, he beat Bottas to the finishing line by three tenths of a second.
Jean-Eric Vergne, in the Toro Rosso, had also given a very good account of himself during the early part of the race, holding off Rosberg, Vettel and Hamilton in a terrific fifth position.
However, his fortunes were to change towards the end when he found his car undriveble as brake temperatures went too high and he was unable to stop properly.
He was lucky to finish in ninth position. The top 10 was completed by Jenson Button in his McLaren, who made a bad gamble in staying on intermediates too long, while the rest of the field had already changed onto slicks.
As mentioned earlier there is now a one month break before the next grand prix at Spa in Belgium during which time all teams have to close their factories for a minimum two week shutdown.
Top six: 1 Nico Rosberg 202; 2 Lewis Hamilton 191; 3 Daniel Ricciardo 131; 4 Fernando Alonso 115; 5 Valtteri Bottas 95; 6 Sebastian Vettel 88.
