F1 2012 HUNGARY DRIVER

I take the second place, but for sure we are not happy until we win.' We keep trying the next race to win, we keep saying that but at least we are up there all the time. We had some problems with the Kers in the first lap which didn't help us, but we had good speed. Raikkonen said: 'We came second, it's not enough.

F1 2012 HUNGARY DRIVER

He quickly closed on to the McLaren's rear, and the question then became which driver's strategies would work out best - and would Hamilton's tyres last when he had made his final stop five laps before Raikkonen.Д«ut the extra wear generated by following another car took the edge off Raikkonen's tyres, and he had to settle for second place as Hamilton took his first win since the Canadian Grand Prix in June and became only the third driver after Alonso and Webber to win more than one race this season. The two Lotus cars were side by side rounding the first corner when Raikkonen emerged from the pits but the Finn legitimately pushed the Frenchman to the outside of the track on the exit of the corner and consolidated second place, before setting off after Hamilton. Grosjean was his main opposition for the first two-thirds of the race, as Raikkonen bided his time fighting up from sixth place on the first lap, after he dropped a place to Alonso at the start after a temporary problem with his Kers power-boost system.Д«ut clever strategy by Lotus, founded on their car's excellent tyre usage, gave Raikkonen clear air in the middle of the race before his second and final stop and put in an impressive sequence of laps to make up enough ground to pass Button, Alonso, Vettel and Grosjean. 2 - Jenson Button, Damon Hill, Mika Hakkinen, Nelson Piquet, Jacques Villeneuve.The 2008 world champion said: 'There is a long way to go and we have a lot of work to do, but we are going to give it everything.' The McLaren driver led from pole position and measured his pace ahead of the faster Lotus cars. Hamilton's win came as a result of a controlled defensive drive, not dissimilar to Alonso's victory in Germany a week ago. Jenson Button, slower and harder on his tyres than team-mate Hamilton, finished the race sixth, ahead of the Williams of Bruno Senna, Webber, Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg. Webber is two points ahead of Vettel in the championship, with Hamilton a further five points adrift and one ahead of Raikkonen as F1 heads into its mid-season four-week break before the Belgian Grand Prix on 2 September. The Australian was ahead of the Spaniard after their second stops, but Webber suffered a failed differential and made a third stop for fresher tyres with 13 laps to go, which dropped him back down to eighth place at the flag. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel was fourth ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and McLaren's Jenson Button.ДЄlonso extended his title lead over Red Bull's Mark Webber to 40 points.

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