00:01And it's lights out, and away we go, and it's a decent reaction from George Russell,
00:05and also from Carlos Sainz, who covers over his teammate Charles Leclerc.
00:09Now that could give Lando Norris a bit of a movement as he tries to get down the inside.
00:13Russell ahead, going round the outside, Charles Leclerc.
00:15Russell's got the inside line, defends, and cuts off Carlos Sainz,
00:19as Lewis Hamilton goes wide and then comes back onto the track behind Lando Norris in fourth.
00:23Decent start from Max Verstappen as well, who's making a move past Fernando Alonso,
00:28and almost ahead of Esteban Ocon.
00:30You can see immediately the Ferraris have fired their tyres up.
00:33They've got grip, they've got confidence.
00:35Russell really struggling to get the car to turn in and stay on the racing line.
00:40That was a very key move, defending into Turn 1, and Russell preserves that lead,
00:44and someone's gone off the track in the first sector towards the back.
00:48We've seen Lewis Hamilton ahead of both Alpines, and he's putting pressure on Lando Norris
00:52as Fernando Alonso puts pressure on his teammate Esteban Ocon.
00:55Verstappen there ahead of Perez, coming from behind Perez is Kevin Magnussen.
01:00Good start from him.
01:03Down good at the inside goes Max Verstappen on Esteban Ocon.
01:08We've seen these two tangle in the past.
01:10That was a lovely clean move, under braking for Max Verstappen.
01:13Damage to other cars, but damage limitation for Verstappen here.
01:17And that was fabulous, but there's Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon.
01:21We've seen one red ball past an Alpine, and there's another red ball going past the Alpine.
01:26Perez puts himself up into eighth.
01:29Hamilton takes a slightly wider line through that final corner,
01:32but look how they can run so much more closely for so much longer during the course of this year.
01:38But Hamilton wants to be ahead of Lando Norris, and he gets the move done into that first turn.
01:43Lovely move there. Norris is going to be under pressure now for Verstappen, heading down into turn two.
01:48Hamilton is pulling away. Verstappen's got ahead of Lando Norris, who didn't have the DRS.
01:53The two behind him did. An extra 16 kilometers an hour really helped and made all the difference.
01:59As Charles Leclerc stops. Leclerc inherited the lead of this race when George Russell made his stop.
02:06No one's really interested at Red Bull. Well, Adrian Neu and Christian Horner aren't in that Ferrari pit stop.
02:102.9 seconds.
02:12Russell comes now down towards turn one and ahead of Charles Leclerc.
02:16But here's crucial for Ferrari. Leclerc, by carrying on for a few more laps, is ahead of his teammate Carlos
02:22Sainz.
02:24We're only on lap 30 of this race so far. Make that lap 31 now as we start a new
02:31lap.
02:31And Leclerc is about a tenth of a second closer to George Russell, going into the DRS zone.
02:36And down he goes! Around the outside, Charles Leclerc.
02:40George Russell will try and fight that back, but with an extra helping of DRS, Charles Leclerc's got it covered.
02:45That was a brilliant move there from Charles Leclerc down at Red Bull from Max Verstappen to pits.
02:52He did come in on lap 16, so his second and what should be final pit stop on lap 39.
03:00Yeah, it is the Monogasco pits and it is the hard tyre that he goes on to.
03:07Wow, that's brave based on how it's been going with everybody else.
03:10And George Russell pits as well onto the medium.
03:12There's Perez, there's Verstappen, who is now ahead of George Russell.
03:17Of George Russell.
03:19Charles Leclerc is on tyres at the moment that actually might not suit him very well.
03:25Verstappen's closing in on Charles Leclerc to make the overtake on the track.
03:30George Russell is now down in sixth place. This is looking very nice for Charles Leclerc.
03:34They go wheel to wheel for Max Verstappen, I should say.
03:37They go wheel to wheel. Verstappen goes a bit deep, but he makes that overtake stick.
03:42So here's Verstappen. It's got a bit tasty down the main straight, didn't it?
03:46Under braking, they were pretty level. I thought he got a little bit too deep, Max Verstappen, but kept the
03:50car under control.
03:52Max Verstappen is the fastest man on this track and he's currently running. Oh no! He's had a little spin.
03:59I was going to say, he's the fastest man on the track. He's currently running ahead of Charles Leclerc, but
04:03he's had a moment there coming out of the penultimate corner.
04:06He stayed ahead of his teammate Sergio Perez. Perez has now got Russell right on his tail.
04:11But that's Russell getting past Sergio Perez, but not past Max Verstappen. And Charles Leclerc is ahead of this battle.
04:20He's a little bit wide. Oh, that's got to be water on the track or something. And that was just
04:25a lazy little loop.
04:27I went on throttle and I just thought, like, we're inside Russell.
04:57He's gone ahead, but Leclerc is down the inside. And for one moment, it looks an awful lot more close
05:04than George Russell would have wanted as they went through that right-hander.
05:07But Russell is ahead now of Charles Leclerc.
05:11All the stories are being written for tomorrow about Ferrari strategy again.
05:17Look at that. He's fallen behind Hamilton and Perez.
05:23These are the critical corners for Hamilton. We know if he comes up behind George Russell, he'll be obliged to
05:29move over quickly for him.
05:31But you can't help but feel out front Verstappen's got enough speed and enough tire.
05:36Nearly got Carlos Sainz coming out of that final turn. He's going to get, I think, the Ferrari. Halfway down
05:41the straight here.
05:42Lewis Hamilton up into the podium places in this race once again.
05:49Down the straight we go once again. Hamilton closes in on Russell once again.
05:52Russell goes down the inside. Hamilton's going to have to go the long way round if he makes the move
05:56there.
05:56But it's the old switcheroo, isn't it? And Russell goes a bit deeper. Hamilton gets him on the exit of
06:03turn one.
06:05What a great victory for Max Verstappen and Red Bull.
06:08Led the 50th race of his career today. Takes the 28th victory of his career.
06:14Max Verstappen, from 10th on the grid, comes home to win the Hungarian Grand Prix.
06:21And behind him, from 7th on the grid, Lewis Hamilton takes second place.
06:26Behind him, the man who started on pole, George Russell, for yet another podium.
06:31The 1-2-3 as it was at Paul Ricard last week. Verstappen, Hamilton, Russell.
06:38It's time to head to a summer break.
06:40Put our feet up, recharge batteries and come back ready for action at Spa.
06:45Ferrari were hoping to make inroads into Red Bull's advantage today.
06:49It didn't happen. They rather checked out. Red Bull maxed out.
06:53Verstappen taking victory in Hungary.
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