Hungarian Grand Prix 2013, Budapest - Race 10/19

drunkenmaster said:
I think in general people are just forgetting how completely uncompetitive that car was last year, of all cars Merc has improved more than any other car by a freaking monumental margin... so expecting them to go from slow and eats tyres to fastest outright pace and fastest race pace in one season is just... unrealistic. Ultimately the improvement in that Merc is unbelievable, they've won two races, got multiple poles, dominate qualifying, have led a significant number of laps in races now. Remember when Hamilton signed and everyone thought it was a joke because that car was so uncompetitive and no one even predicted they could improve half as much as they have.

They've done phenomenal work on the car in the past year.... it was just too far back for that to turn it into the outright best car out there.
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Indeed. I think most on here thought he would just use this season to get to grips with the team and car and thought Merc would go all out on 2014 but their 2013 car has been surprisingly good. Hamilton is still overdue a win with them though.
 
Red Bull still seem to be the only team with KERS issues, which is a little worrying come next year when energy recovery will count for 200bhp+.
 
I watched the interviews after qually on the BBC earlier and they went to live on air about Grosjean, trying to make a big deal then heard whilst on air it was all fine. Kinda made the whole exercise pointless really :p
 
al4x said:
ill be pretty disappointed if lotus dont make up a serious amount of ground on ferrari and merc today. kind of expecting at least one podium from RG
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Yep at least one Lotus should be on the podium today.
 
Yeah it shouldn't do. His went wrong like that last year in Malaysia as well which is strange.
 
First lap is ignored, Vettel went over off the track several times with all four wheels.
 
Race
Code: 
[b]Pos  Driver               Team/Car                  Time/Gap[/b]
 1.  Lewis Hamilton       Mercedes              1h42m29.445s
 2.  Kimi Raikkonen       Lotus-Renault             +10.938s
 3.  Sebastian Vettel     Red Bull-Renault          +12.459s
 4.  Mark Webber          Red Bull-Renault          +18.044s
 5.  Fernando Alonso      Ferrari                   +31.411s
 6.  Romain Grosjean      Lotus-Renault             +52.295s*
 7.  Jenson Button        McLaren-Mercedes          +53.819s
 8.  Felipe Massa         Ferrari                   +56.447s
 9.  Sergio Perez         McLaren-Mercedes            +1 lap
10.  Pastor Maldonado     Williams-Renault            +1 lap
11.  Nico Hulkenberg      Sauber-Ferrari              +1 lap
12.  Jean-Eric Vergne     Toro Rosso-Ferrari          +1 lap
13.  Daniel Ricciardo     Toro Rosso-Ferrari          +1 lap
14.  Giedo van der Garde  Caterham-Renault           +2 laps
15.  Charles Pic          Caterham-Renault           +2 laps
16.  Jules Bianchi        Marussia-Cosworth          +3 laps
17.  Max Chilton          Marussia-Cosworth          +3 laps
     Paul di Resta        Force India-Mercedes   +4 laps/DNF
     Nico Rosberg         Mercedes               +6 laps/DNF
Report - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/109056



World Championship standings, round 10:
Code: 
[b]Drivers:                    Constructors:             [/b]
 1.  Vettel        172        1.  Red Bull-Renault          277
 2.  Raikkonen     134        2.  Mercedes                  208
 3.  Alonso        133        3.  Ferrari                   194
 4.  Hamilton      124        4.  Lotus-Renault             183
 5.  Webber        105        5.  Force India-Mercedes       59
 6.  Rosberg        84        6.  McLaren-Mercedes           57
 7.  Massa          61        7.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari         24
 8.  Grosjean       49        8.  Sauber-Ferrari              7
 9.  Button         39        9.  Williams-Renault            1
10.  Di Resta       36
11.  Sutil          23
12.  Perez          18
13.  Vergne         13
14.  Ricciardo      11
15.  Hulkenberg      7
16.  Maldonado       1
 
I don't think they would mind whether Vettel or Kimi won the WDC, as long as they don't take each other out or do a Mclaren and gift it to another team.
 
Quite a bit of talk about this rim design on the rear tyres of the Merc since last race -

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No wonder they didn't go through 10 sets during the race as expected.
 
Yeah it is definitely cooling related. Hopefully Scabs is doing a Newey and visualising what it does and making sense of it :p
 
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