Mclaren Triumph with Button, Hamilton lost in the end

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Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungaroring, Budapest - Race Result

Jenson Button won his 2nd Grand Prix of the season and 11th of his career on the occasion of his 200th Grand Prix Start. This is the same circuit where Jenson Button won his first grand prix victory in 2006.

A lot of dramas continued into the race with a wet start for the teams, switching to super soft dry tyres. Heidfeld car catching fire due to overheating and parking the car near the exit of pitlane causing a stir of drivers diving into the pits for 2nd stop fearing a call for Safety car. Rain predicted two times during the race and came in the last for few minutes causing some drivers to wrongly switch to Intermediates costing them some positions. Finally a lot of confusion between the lead lap car, 1lap down and 2lap down car all at the same time trying to pass each other during lap 60-65.

As the half way down into the race, it was no way near for a Button win in the end, but Lewis Hamilton who lead most part of the race until his unfateful stop for Interms that caused him his race Victory.

Button on the other hand, with a steady start at the 3rd climb his way past Vettel for 2nd and hanged in that position until Hamilton made his mistake giving away the race lead to his teammate.

Button did not lose his calmness as he holds himself ahead of Vettel in the final laps to win the race with a comfortable gap at the back.

Sebastian Vettel who started on the pole, finished 2nd with some ups and downs during the race that at the moment saw him as low as 5th. But he hold his nerves to finish 2nd. Fernando Alonso whose Ferrari looked slower than that of Mclaren and Red Bull gained a lot during the 10min rain when Webber and Hamilton who choose for Interms fall behind him. Alonso even after a 4stop comfortably stayed ahead of Webber and Hamilton but not in contention for a race victory for Ferrari today.

Lewis Hamilton finished 4th after leading 50 odd laps with a string of fastest laps, lap after lap. His choice for Intermediates, a spin in the middle of the race track, dangerous recovery in front of Paul Di Resta leading to a drive through penalty was enough to strap him from the top. He dropped to 5th due to all this, finally recovering in the dying laps to be ahead of Webber.

Mark Webber has a tough race weekend with losing the much of the momentum in the starting dropping bottom 10 and switching to interms was his mistake.

Felipe Massa with some exceptional overtaking maneuvers saw him finished 6th after an early spun and hitting the wall. Massa drove the race with a damaged rear wing that might interfere with some of the aerodynamic of the car.

Force India F1 rookie driver Paul Di Resta drove excellently to finish at career best 7th position. This was his 3rd point finish of the season. He stayed at 7th for most part of the race, holded that line. Though dropped out of 10 in the second half but made his way past some drivers with great overtaking maneuvers like a professional to give him his best finish of the career.

The 100th race for Toro Rosso could not be more sweeter as both of their drivers finished in top10 after starting from the back. Sebastien Buemi who started from 23rd on the grid finished 8th and his teammate Jaime Alguersuari in 10th.

Nico Rosberg switching to interm saw him drop of the top 10 later recovered to finish at 9th. Not a great weekend for the Mercedes as some more points could be scored. Michael Schumacher could not complete the race due to gear box problem. This was Nico's 100th race. He is still without a race victory.

Kamui Kobayashi could have finished at some higher position if his two stop strategy would have worked. The gamble did not paid off in the end with him dropping from 5th to 11th.

It was a dreadful day for Renault as Nick Heidfeld car caught fire just after the pitstop with something went wrong into the pits that saw some sparks coming out of the car as he came out of the pit that change into a massive fire at the pit lane exit. Nick came out safe and sound. The car even had a small explosion with Marshals doing the heroic job in between to cool down that Renault.

Vitaly Petrov finished 12th not looked competitive during the whole race.

Rubens Barrichello in the leading Williams was 13th and Adrian Sutil who took an early spin on the first lap finished 14th after climbing from as low as 20th. Sutil however started at 8th and lost everything in the first lap.

Rookie driver Sergio Perez who started in top 10 for the first time, could not cope up with the wet track condition and lost a lot of places in first lap and finally finishing in 15th.

Maldonado in the second Williams was 16th followed by Timo Glock in Virgin for 17th.

Daniel Ricciardo in HRT outpaced his teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi and Virgin drive Jerome D'Ambrosio to finish his best position 18th.

Ambrosio finished 19th ahead of Liuzzi who struggle for Reliability during the whole race and was last classified driver for the race.

Both the Team Lotus car could not complete the race as both their drivers parked their car due to some mechanical issue.

Lot of improvements on their way as the teams head for 3weeks of Summer break. Next Race - Belgian Grand Prix, 26-28Aug.

Pos	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Pits	Grid	Points
1	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	70	1hr 46min 42.337sec	3	3	25
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	70	+3.5 secs	3	1	18
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	70	+19.8 secs	4	5	15
4	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	70	+48.3 secs	6	2	12
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	70	+ 49.7 secs	5	6	10
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	70	+ 83.1 secs	4	4	8
7	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	69	+ 1 Lap	3	11	6
8	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	69	+ 1 Lap	3	23	4
9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	69	+ 1 Lap	4	7	2
10	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	69	+ 1 Lap	3	16	1
11	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	69	+ 1 Lap	3	13
12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	69	+ 1 Lap	4	12
13	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	68	+ 2 Lap	5	15
14	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	68	+ 2 Lap	4	8
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	68	+ 2 Lap	4	10
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	68	+ 2 Lap	5	17
17	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	66	+ 4 Laps	3	20
18	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT - Cosworth	66	+ 4 Laps	3	22
19	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	65	+ 5 Laps	4	24
20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	65	+ 5 Laps	5	21
21	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	55	+ 15 Laps	5	18
22	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	26	+ 44 Lap Gear Box Problem	2	9
23	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	23	+ 47 Laps Fire in Car	2	14
24	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	17	+ 53 Laps	1	19
Fastest Lap - Felipe Massa, Ferrari on Lap 61 - 1min 23.415sec
Lap Record - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari - 1min 19.071sec

Sebastien Buemi for Toro Rosso, qualified 18th but dropped five places due to the penalty for causing a collision with Nick Heidfeld during the last race 'German Grand Prix' at Nurburgring.

F1 2011 Season Drivers Standing
1	Sebastian Vettel	234
2	Mark Webber	149
3	Lewis Hamilton	146
4	Fernando Alonso	145
5	Jenson Button	134
6	Felipe Massa	70
7	Nico Rosberg	48
8	Nick Heidfeld	34
9	Vitaly Petrov	32
10	Michael Schumacher	32
11	Kamui Kobayashi	27
12	Adrian Sutil	18
13	Sebastien Buemi	12
14	Jaime Alguersuari	10
15	Sergio Perez	8
16	Paul Di Resta	8
17	Rubens Barrichello	4

Constructors Standing for 2011 Season
1	Red Bull	383
2	Mclaren	280
3	Ferrari	215
4	Mercedes GP	80
5	Renault	66
6	Sauber	35
7	Force India	26
8	Toro Rosso	22
9	Williams	4