Webber triumphs in Hungary as Vettel loses his cool, again
The hungaroring isn’t the most interesting track on the calendar, it’s narrow, twisty and boring, the drivers hardly have anywhere to overtake and it only seems to produce and interesting race when something untoward happens. Sundays race was no different really, the only incidents happening under the safety car, with Rosberg’s wheel going walkabout, Kubica and Sutil colliding in the pits and Vettel getting a penalty.
Webber avoided all the interesting goings on by staying out during the safety car and then using the Red Bull to the max to open up such a lead to Alonso that he could stop and rejoin in the lead – that’s some pace, the others have a lot to do. Vettel would have won the race had he not got a penalty under the safety car but in some ways that seems to sum up Vettel’s season so far.
The Ferrari’s capitalised on Vettel’s penalty and McLarens lack of pace to take the second and fourth spots to improve their points and move closer to title battle but they remain solidly in third at the moment and have a lot more work to do to challenge Red Bull and McLaren.
The McLarens were off the pace here, perhaps it was the lack of straights at the Hungaroring that means their car isn’t suited to the track, but they needed a better outing really. Button managed to get some points but he was mainly helped by others having problems than anything he did himself, he needs to sort out the qualifying performance to give himself a chance of getting back in the title hunt.
The Saubers had a good day finally, with both cars in the points, as did all the new teams as for the first time all six of the cars made it to the finish. Now all they have to do is get on the pace of the real F1 teams.
All the teams head away into the break hoping that they can improve their results at Spa but Red Bull have the most to lose and Mercedes the most to make up – without driving others off the road or losing wheels.
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