Track Torque: Maxed out by Max
The grand prix 'circus' takes a short summer break.
Max Verstappen was in a class of his own in Budapest last Sunday, taking the win in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
He was only tenth on the grid in qualifying but drove a great race through the field to win.
Lewis Hamilton also did a great job to bring his Mercedes home in second spot, also starting back on the grid in seventh place.
To complete the podium, George Russell completed the trio of really top drives in his Merc after leading the race for a considerable period from his excellent pole position in qualifying.
It was a very good race with top-notch racing involving the best of Formula 1 in close quarters.
The cars are really working well under the new ground effects regulations and are able to stay extremely close to each other without the huge aerodynamic deficit of the old cars in a similar situation before.
The Ferraris, which in my opinion could have finished first and second, were very disappointing after bad strategic decisions by the Prancing Horse Team.
Team management decided wrongly to put the cars on hard tyres at the wrong moment.
As a result Carlos Sainz finished fourth and team mate Charles Leclerc finished sixth, with Sergio Perez sandwiched between them in fifth spot.
Despite the hardships suffered we as spectators were given a splendid show of the best drivers at their best.
The quality did not diminish down the line either with really good drives by Lando Norris in his McLaren, past multiple world champion Fernando Alonso and then Esteban Ocon (both in the Alpine Renaults) into seventh, eighth and ninth places respectively.
The quality didn’t finish there either with a good performance coming from the other multiple world champion Sebastian Vettel, earning a solitary point in tenth position.
The race had been a great spectacle and sets the stage for the second half of the season which will re-start, after the summer break on August 28, at that great circuit Spa in Belgium.
Most team members will have a chance to recuperate during this holiday period while another group of special people, the designers work flat out on a raft of changes for the cars to accept in a month’s time, when the racing resumes for the second half of the season in earnest.
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