The Hungarian GP ended already a few hours ago but the first thing to do after the race was to go swimming with my sons! The weather here in Finland has been quite similar to that in Hungary this weekend: last night there was a thunder storm here and today there has been +28 degrees Celsius :) Finally we´ve had some proper summer days here in Finland :) So today there has been hot weather and naturally some hot emotions in terms of Formula 1!
The start didn´t go to the plan -at least not to the one that I had planned for the race! Both my favourites lost a position at the start: Sebastian lost a place to Button and Kimi lost a position to Alonso! Hamilton maintained his lead and Grosjean followed right behind him. The first stint of the race looked a bit boring: no overtaking which was kind of expected at the Hungaroring. Sebastian was right on Button´s tail but no hope of making a pass on him! Until the first pit stops...
Button was among the first top drivers to pit and Sebastian managed to get past the Briton when he pitted a few laps later. There´s been a lot of talk about Lotus´s lousy pit stop strategy but today everything was perfect! No mistakes either in the pits or on the track! After the first pit stop Kimi rejoined the track ahead of Alonso so the Iceman managed to take his position back. Kimi really seemed to be in fire today: he was stunningly fast and was able to set phenomenal lap times when they mattered! Kimi made his second pit stop some laps later than his rivals and Lotus´s strategy couldn´t have been any more perfect: Kimi rejoined the track just in front of his team-mate Grosjean and Vettel! Actually Kimi had an intense wheel-to-wheel battle with his team-mate but the Frenchman just couldn´t prevent the flying Iceman from overtaking him! Kimi was flying in spite of the issues with his KERS which didn´t work properly on the opening laps.
In the last stint Kimi was catching up Hamilton second by second and tenth by tenth... There were over 10 laps to go when Kimi was right on the Briton´s tail! But no chance of overtaking as the McLaren driver didn´t make any mistakes. So Hamilton took a well-deserved victory today and the two Lotus drivers completed the podium: Kimi 2nd and Grosjean 3rd. Vettel finished 4th in spite of the third pit stop at the end of the race. The team decided to put a fresh set of option tyres on to give Vettel better chances to catch Grosjean. The German did catch him at the end but there was no chance to get past. Alonso finished in P5 and Button in P6 today. I had been kind of hoping that Sebastian would have finished on the top and Alonso much further away... The Spaniard still has a huge lead in the championship standings!
In addition to the battle for victory there was also another topic today: Pastor Maldonado in his Williams! Once again he managed to get himself a drive through penalty for a clash with Paul Di Resta. How many lessons will this Venezuelan need to learn how to drive in the spirit of fair play and good sportsmanship? Just wondering...
So now there´ll be a 4-week break until the thrilling F1 season continues. After the summer vacation it´s time for Spa. If Kimi is meant to win a race this season I can´t imagine any venue suiting him better than the Spa-Francorchamps circuit! I can´t wait for the season to continue... What am I going to do on these four weekends when there´s no Formula 1 racing?? I´m suffering from the thought already ;) I hope both Kimi and Sebastian will have an awesome and relaxing summer holiday as well as all the other drivers :) It would be soooo fantastic if Sebastian visited Finland during the summer break!
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