Posted on 07/24/2014 6:46:48 PM PDT by Chode
Race Date: | 27 Jul 2014 | |
Circuit Name: | Hungaroring | |
First Grand Prix: | 1986 | |
Number of Laps: | 70 | |
Circuit Length: | 4.381 km | |
Race Distance: | 306.630 km | |
Lap Record: | 1:19.071 - M Schumacher (2004) |
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We really need to get you a new McLaren picture. West left in 2005! Or are you trying to tell us you’re a secret Kimi Räikkönen fan?
and i am more a Mika fan, but still root for Kimi whenever McLaren steps on it's crank, which seems to be a weekly occurrence lately 8^)
Kind’a hard to get back into Formula 1 after it left Watkins Glen NY in past years.
That full up and down road course was second to none. Remember the right into the ESS’s then uphill to the chicane, then down into the boot, uphill into the pit straightaway! Classic stuff!
Now it’s chase the car around the course, and maybe once per lap you’ll get an opportunity! Great, but kinda boring!
No, Sir Chode is like Me. It’s still WINSTON CUP/BUSCH for Me;)
(P.S. AnybodyButJimmie/AKA 6whine)
Happy for another race, but this has never been one of my favorites. Always seems pretty predictable in Hungary.
Watkins Glen is a classic. Even with the “bus stop” they put in after J.D. McDuffie’s death there and the disuse of the “boot” section it’s a great track. With the “boot” it’s even better. It flows with the terrain, it’s sweeping and pretty high-speed, it’s one of the few road courses that even the big NASCAR barges can run well on. You can certainly tell it’s not some Herman Tilke snoozer of a track!
}:-)4
Gee what is happening to Lewis’ car? Race after race.......
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Laps |
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1 | 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:25.227 | 1:23.310 | 1:22.715 | 20 |
2 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 1:25.662 | 1:23.606 | 1:23.201 | 16 |
3 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 1:25.690 | 1:23.776 | 1:23.354 | 19 |
4 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 1:25.495 | 1:23.676 | 1:23.391 | 18 |
5 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:26.087 | 1:24.249 | 1:23.909 | 17 |
6 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1:26.592 | 1:24.030 | 1:24.223 | 19 |
7 | 22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:26.612 | 1:24.502 | 1:24.294 | 21 |
8 | 25 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Renault | 1:24.941 | 1:24.637 | 1:24.720 | 19 |
9 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1:26.149 | 1:24.647 | 1:24.775 | 22 |
10 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:26.578 | 1:24.585 | 13 | |
11 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | STR-Renault | 1:25.361 | 1:24.706 | 14 | |
12 | 99 | Adrian Sutil | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:26.027 | 1:25.136 | 12 | |
13 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Force India-Mercedes | 1:25.910 | 1:25.211 | 11 | |
14 | 21 | Esteban Gutierrez | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:25.709 | 1:25.260 | 10 | |
15 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 1:26.136 | 1:25.337 | 16 | |
16 | 17 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia-Ferrari | 1:26.728 | 1:27.419 | 14 | |
17 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:26.792 | 5 | ||
18 | 10 | Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham-Renault | 1:27.139 | 10 | ||
19 | 4 | Max Chilton | Marussia-Ferrari | 1:27.819 | 7 | ||
20 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham-Renault | 1:28.643 | 10 | ||
21 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | No time | 2 | ||
22 | 13 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Renault | No time | 1 | ||
Q1 107% Time | 1:30.886 |
What a race!
Great stuff indeed - the head-to-head racing. The first safety car deployment threw a wrench into the works of the front runners (at that time) though. Glad that Hamilton didn’t let Rosberg pass when the team asked him to. Kind of obvious that Rosberg was going to pit again and then be much faster on fresh tires. Instead, they should have pitted Rosberg a few laps earlier. Then he would’ve had a truly fair chance at Hamilton and perhaps even the win. As it stands, that team call leaves a slightly bitter taste.
(The above was written with perfect 20/20 hindsight vision.)
“What a race!”
What a reface is right!!!
Mercedes’ early season advantage seems to have been diminished.
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