Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has claimed his second career win to maintain his third place in the driver\u2019s championship at the Pirelli-sponsored Hungarian Grand Prix, before Formula One\u2019s annual summer break.
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\nRicciardo used a three stop strategy running the whole race on the P Zero Yellow soft tyre after having started on the Cinturato Green intermediate tyre. Fernando Alonso in his Ferrari held off his second place against Mercedes\u2019 Lewis Hamilton who charged through the field to finish third after having started from the pit lane. Both used a two-stop strategy starting on the intermediates with Hamilton then completing one stint on the soft and his final stint on the medium tyre. Alonso just used the soft tyre for his final two stints, changing for the second time on lap 38 and thus making the soft tyre last for 32 laps.<\/p>\n
An important rain shower just before the cars were supposed to go on the grid provoked some hectic thinking for the teams\u2019 strategists as the determined whether the Cinturato Blue full wet tyre or the intermediate would be the tyre to start on. After having completed some careful reconnaissance laps on either the full wet or the intermediate tyre before going to the grid, all drivers opted to start the race on the intermediate tyre.<\/p>\n
A safety car period in lap 8 changed predetermined strategies as the whole field except McLaren\u2019s Kevin Magnussen, who stayed out until lap 15, changed to the P Zero Yellow soft tyre on a rapidly drying track. His team-mate Jenson Button was the only one to opt for another set of the intermediate tyres which did not work out for him in the end, finishing in 10th after briefly having been in the lead.<\/p>\n
As rain tyres were used during some point of the race, the rule of having to use both types of dry compounds was no longer valid. This then made for some very exciting racing with positions being swapped constantly, not only at the top but all the way down through the field and various strategies being at play. At one stage of the race an equal balance of medium and soft tyres were being run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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