{"id":22781,"date":"2012-07-29T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=22781"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:47:37","slug":"f1-hungarian-grand-prix-lewis-hamilton-king-of-hungary-formula-1-news-22781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/f1-hungarian-grand-prix-lewis-hamilton-king-of-hungary-formula-1-news-22781\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Hungarian Grand Prix : Lewis Hamilton King of Hungary \/ Formula 1 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton dominates and won Hungary Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>Before the Formula One circus shuts down for the summer break, Budapest plays host to round 11 of the championship and the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lewishamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> who is favourite to notch up his second victory of the season after dominating yesterday&#8217;s qualifying session<\/p>\n<p>Two laps left, and Hamilton maintains a one-second lead over Raikkonen. He&#8217;s got this one in the bag.\u00a0Hamilton enters his final lap ahead of Raikkonen.\u00a0 A strong challenge from Raikkonen but Hamilton&#8217;s had the Finn covered.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton breathed new life into his Formula 1 title challenge as he held off the challenge of Kimi Raikkonen to win the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring.<\/p>\n<p>The McLaren driver led away from pole position and was able to manage the gap to Raikkonen&#8217;s team-mate Romain Grosjean during the first two stints of the 69-lap race.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen&#8217;s stunning pace during the middle stint leapfrogged the Finn from fifth to second, but he could not prevent Hamilton taking a 19th career win, his third in Hungary, as Grosjean gave Lotus a double podium by coming home third.<\/p>\n<h2>F1 Hungarian Grand Prix:  Mark Webber to 40 points.<\/h2>\n<p>World Championship leader Fernando Alonso was fifth, but extended his lead over Mark Webber to 40 points.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel narrowly failed to overhaul Grosjean after a late stop for fresh tyres and finished fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Championship leader Fernando Alonso would have been a relieved man as Ferrari&#8217;s lack of pace was not punished in the championship standings.<\/p>\n<p>In fact the Spaniard increased his lead to 40 points as nearest challenger Mark Webber trailed home eighth, after the Australian&#8217;s own late stop for tyres failed to work out.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton remains 47 points adrift of Alonso in fourth place despite his masterful drive to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth placed Jenson Button was another left frustrated by strategy as McLaren&#8217;s decision to switch him from a two to a three-stop option saw him drop from third back to an eventual sixth, ahead of the Williams of Bruno Senna.<\/p>\n<p>Felipe Massa and Nico Rosberg rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>After 69 laps Lewis Hamilton wins F1 Hungarian Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>F1 Hungarian Grand Prix &#8211; NationalTurk<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezJkCE1-81s\" title=\"F1 Hungarian Grand Prix 2012 (raw footage)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mercedes-update-new-hope-for-hamilton-and-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mercedes update new hope for Hamilton and Russell?\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes update new hope for Hamilton and Russell?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton dominates and won Hungary Grand Prix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":22791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,209,1,118,156,14],"tags":[3293,29657,29660,29004,29664,77189,29659,221,1690,29662,29666,29665,1660,29661,23754,225,29663],"class_list":["post-22781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-formula-1","category-general","category-hot","category-motorsport","category-world","tag-f1","tag-f1-hungary-grand-prix","tag-f1-lewis-hamilton","tag-f1-sebastian-vettel","tag-ferrari-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-1-hungarian-grand-prix","tag-jenson-button","tag-jenson-button-mclaren","tag-lewis-hamilton-hungary-grand-prix","tag-lewis-hamilton-win-f1","tag-lewis-hamilton-won-hungary-grand-prix","tag-mclaren","tag-mclaren-f1","tag-mclaren-formula-1","tag-red-bull","tag-red-bull-f1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}