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19/7/2020
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00:00And how that's sounding for him. We have 20 drivers taking part here. It's the Hungarian Grand Prix, 70 laps to come around the Hungara ring.
00:10And it's lights out, and away we go, and it's a tentative start for everyone, but Charles Leclerc, brilliant start from him.
00:16Sergio Perez slow away, Hamilton is clear of large stroll, there comes Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc, Valtteri Bottas, Celestinka, a match for Stafford goes round the outside, looking for third place.
00:26Hamilton leads from Strong, and in all the Ferrari gets twitchy, and Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc too, but they avoid contact as Max Verstappen goes down the inside, and it's a third place.
00:37It's a jump start, isn't it, unfortunately. But yeah, and then Verstappen braving it out, despite new front suspension, being laxed on his car in the last moment, to get himself up in third position.
00:50The Max through the exit of Turn 1, great driving here, really good, because I tell you what, that's like oil's oak in there, I'd imagine, in terms of grip.
00:59Incredible that no one hurt this afternoon here, the battles are all behind him, including this one, Valtteri Bottas, on Charles Leclerc, who's watching in his mirrors,
01:06and he can see the black base livery of the Mercedes in 2020, getting air versed.
01:13Also, they need to stay out there, and hopefully, they may catch the next, the next tire change as well, as good as we catch this one.
01:21Staple has gone to boundary, Bottas has got to DRS, and he's managed to get partial Leclerc, but Leclerc is going to fight this one back, and Bottas has DRS advantage once more,
01:30that might help him, and the inside line, as he splashes through a few puddles, to try and take Leclerc, and he can't, and he's lost out there, Martin.
01:37Yeah, because his tire surface temperature just cooled down in that water, put it loose, with a good measure, and here we go,
01:43we're just going to splash through that lot, and we've probably lost 20, 30 degrees of tire temperature, and, yeah, fighting it.
01:51So, Goethe Steiner still with us, as we just look at, oh, that's how the Williams got a puncture, and released into the path of Carlos Sikes.
02:00That's as Williams hoped.
02:02Goethe, whose call was it, for the, to come in and get rid of the, the intermediates in the wet so quickly, was it drivers, or did that come from the pit wall?
02:11He looks, he's saving his battery, this is a lunge down the outside, when he's been able to keep it around the outside, he'll come back underneath.
02:19Now he's lost ground, now he's got better on his tail, with DRS as well.
02:23And Sebastian Fettel thinks, which way can I go, and Alex Alba makes it very tricky for him, who is Lewis Hamilton, and into the pit comes Pierre Gasly.
02:31Ted, what can you smell?
02:32I can smell burning oil, and horrible, horrible, melting bits of plastic, and rubber, and you can sell that thick, acrid smoke, that's clearly a fire, for the back of his Honda engine.
02:43And a window sight, and keep me having to that as well.
02:46Absolutely, this is how Stroll got past Kevin Magnussen, Magnussen who completed six laps in the podium position.
02:53They're taking lunge on the inside, yes he can.
02:56He is closer, he is going for the lunge, Leclerc knows he's coming, Leclerc gives him the space to move round, because he knew he couldn't fight that without potential damage as well.
03:05And now Sebastian Fettel wants to go to the outside, and Charles Leclerc blocks off his teammate, he's not losing two places.
03:10Yeah, behind him, see what he can do with that, and Bottas is homing in on Stroll as well, for third place.
03:17And this was the move, Alex Alba put in on Charles Leclerc.
03:20Leclerc knew he wasn't going to fight that without any potential risk of damage, and he's had accidents at turn one before here, and he tangled the Force Indies, didn't he?
03:30Yeah, quite passive there from Charles Albuquerque.
03:3218th at the moment, as there goes Sergio Perez, and Charles Leclerc reacts to the move that he saw coming, and Daniel Ricciardo is right on the tail there as well.
03:41And by the way, Carlos Sainz is at the end of this quartet, and Perez wants to go down the inside of Leclerc, it will be slippery, can he make it stink though?
03:49He's got the inside line until we get to turn three, and Leclerc just stays ahead on the racing point, but that's terrific stuff.
03:55And now Daniel Ricciardo might be thinking that turn fours are going to a decent points finish if he's starting outside the top ten, but for one a bit more than that, I'm sure, there's Lando Norris, keeping ahead of Charles Leclerc, really fighting it out.
04:09It is more menacing in your mirrors.
04:12Lando Norris has the red Scarlet car, which will be menacing enough, all in his wing mirrors at the moment, and Sebastian Fengel, but Charles Leclerc should stay near the end of the goal of the grass to try and get past him.
04:24He's on the inside, he pushes Lando Norris wide, Norris is having absolutely none of it, sticks to his task well, and as Charles Leclerc...
04:33...on the upside of the track, this was superb there, just watch as they head down turn two, Leclerc goes a little wide there, Lando Norris reacts to it and then comes back at him again.
04:4318th place as Leclerc thinks joining to go round the outside on this occasion, but did the old switcheroo and get a better exit out of the first corner.
04:52And Norris still points that Leclerc in a very nice position, Leclerc on the half compound tyre, which is working well, seems to have got a half car length ahead, seems to have got a full car length ahead.
05:02And almost within drag reduction system range, and this is how Charles Leclerc managed it this time around.
05:11Nice. Lando needed to concede that one.
05:15Possible rain in nine laps. They're just teasing us out, mate.
05:20Oh dear. That is Nicholas Latifi, George Russell's teammate, who had a puncture after an unsafe release, and was spun around at turn one, and has gone on to the run-off X behind.
05:34If Hamilton wins, that's a seven advantage, minus one for Fastest Lap, but neither is he second, nor has he got Fastest Lap guaranteed.
05:44That was the spin from the two feet.
05:48Yeah.
05:49He's turned in, looks like quite late to the goalpost on New Fastest Lap.
05:53Now that he's five seconds his way through his fuel load, they're maxed out at 100 kilograms of fuel.
05:59And now it's 105 now, isn't it? 105.
06:03Yeah, you can hear the transmission just oscillating a bit, can't you, with the movement in the side one of the tyres,
06:11as they change gear, that little oscillation in the engine note.
06:17That fastest lap he did to get into that race.
06:20And this will lift Lewis Hamilton, I'm sure, to the top of the Drivers' Championship.
06:24No one's ever won three races in a row at the Hungarou Ring.
06:27Lewis Hamilton's done it now, though.
06:29It's the Hungarian Grand Prix for the eighth time for Lewis Hamilton.
06:34Crossing the line in second place.
06:36It's the mistake turned into a podium for Max Verstappen.
06:41Second place for Red Bull.
06:43Valtteri Bottas comes home in thirds.
06:46And I'm sure Mercedes...
06:51Welcome to Lewis Hamilton in second place.
06:53Lewis Hamilton sending out a message in Formula One in 2020, driving without fear,
06:59I'm afraid to speak his mind as well.
07:02He's going to take some catching on the track.
07:05Red Bull HQ is going to be detailed.
07:09And I think there's going to be a lot of questions need answered
07:12even if the performance is not there.
07:14And you don't understand it.
07:16Valtteri Bottas doing out the performance that he wanted today.
07:19Max Verstappen unhappy all weekend with the performance of his car.
07:23Salvages a second place.
07:25Whilst Lewis Hamilton and his race engineer Pete Monnington smile
07:29and toast the victory, Champlain.
07:31It's been a very busy first three races in 2020.
07:36And as we head for our first week long break,
07:39it's Hamilton and Mercedes on top.
07:49Yes, you heard that.

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