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Lewis Hamilton took the championship lead for the first time this season after beating Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg to victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hamilton took the lead on the run down to Turn 1, setting up a tense race-long battle which he ultimately won by just 1.9s. Rosberg fell to third behind Daniel Ricciardo at Turn 1 but was back in second by the exit of Turn 2 before heaping the pressure on Hamilton though the three stints of the race.
At times Hamilton looked vulnerable and Mercedes even threatened to put Rosberg on a better strategy if the world champion backed his teammate into Ricciardo, but ultimately the new championship leader had the pace when it mattered to take his fifth victory in six races. A late lock up at Turn 12 saw Rosberg close to within 0.6s with seven laps remaining, but again Hamilton's car was wide enough to defend his position and had the pace to build up a buffer of over a second on the following lap.
After attempting to pressure the Mercedes drivers with an early second pit stop, Ricciardo compromised his strategy slightly and finished just 0.6s ahead of Sebastian Vettel in fourth. The result, combined with Max Verstappen beating Kimi Raikkonen to fifth, means Red Bull has now closed the gap to Ferrari to just a single point in the constructors' championship.
If the race had been held on track that was easier to overtake, Raikkonen's alternative strategy --soft, super-soft, super-soft v super-soft, soft, soft -- may have seen him challenge for a podium from 14th on the grid, but the Ferrari strategists did not factor in the wide Red Bull of Verstappen. A series of robust defences by Verstappen saw him keep the Ferrari at bay despite having 12-lap older tyres and the slower soft compound compared to Raikkonen's super-softs.
On lap 56 Raikkonen made contact with Verstappen as he attempted to pass into Turn 2, only to see Verstappen close the door and a piece of his front wing disappear into the scenery. Three laps from the end Raikkonen had another attempt at Turn 1 but bailed out at the last minute as Verstappen positioned his car in the middle of the track. Raikkonen felt he had been hard done by -- making his anger clear over the Ferrari team radio -- but the stewards saw no need to investigate either incident.
Fernando Alonso finished seventh for McLaren, rounding off a solid weekend of being the best of the rest behind the top three teams. He and Romain Grosjean both received a warning flag for exceeding track limits three times at either Turn 4 or 11, but managed to avoid the drive-through penalty that would have come with a fourth violation.
Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz followed his countryman home in eighth ahead of Valtteri Bottas and Nico Hulkenberg who rounded out the top ten.
Jolyon Palmer missed out on an opportunity to score the first points of his F1 career when he spun at Turn 4 on lap 49 while running in tenth place. He lost the rear despite running alone on track and was lucky not to collect a rival as he returned to the track at the corner exit.
Felipe Massa struggled throughout the race as a result of a side effect from his qualifying accident that meant his steering was off centre as he drove to the grid. Despite attempts to balance it on the grid he still struggled with issues during the race and finished in 18th.
Jenson Button was the only retiree, putting an end to a miserable race 10 laps early. The first problem on Button's car occurred on lap five when he reported his brake pedal was extending to the floor, seeing him drop from eighth to last in one lap. The team identified a hydraulic issue on his car and told Button not to change gear -- a radio call that resulted in a drive-through penalty for breaching team radio restrictions. He eventually managed to get back up to speed and was running 19th when a belch of smoke from his Honda power unit signalled the end of his race.