2011 Hungarian Grand Prix
2011 Hungarian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 11 of 19 in the 2011 Formula One World Championship
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Race details | |||||
Date | July 31, 2011 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Eni Magyar Nagydíj 2011 | ||||
Location | Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Hungary | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 4.381 km (2.722 miles) | ||||
Distance | 70 laps, 306.630 km (190.531 miles) | ||||
Weather | Cloudy, rain showers | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver |
Renault | ||||
Time | 1:19.815 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | |||
Time | 1:23.415 on lap 61 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First |
Mercedes | ||||
Second |
Renault | ||||
Third | Ferrari | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Eni Magyar Nagydíj 2011)
As a consequence of the race, Vettel extended his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to 85 points over Mark Webber, who finished the race in fifth position. Lewis Hamilton, fourth in the race, remained in third place in the championship, 3 points behind Webber in third, and one ahead of Alonso. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull's championship lead was cut to 103 points over McLaren, with Ferrari a further 65 points behind in third position. This was the last race for Nick Heidfeld.
Report
Background
After being replaced by
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-banded super-soft compound as the softer "option" compound, as opposed to the previous year where Bridgestone brought the white-banded medium compound as the prime.[6]
Sébastien Buemi received a five-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Nick Heidfeld at the Nürburgring.
This race was Jenson Button's 200th Grand Prix; and also the 100th Grand Prix of the 2.4 litre V8 engine since it became mandatory in F1 in 2006. It was the 100th Grand Prix for Nico Rosberg and also for the Toro Rosso team.
Heading into the weekend,
Practice
In practice 1, Lewis Hamilton topped the leaderboard with a time of 1:23.350 following on from his win at the Nürburgring the weekend before, Sebastian Vettel came second with a time of 1:23.564 and Fernando Alonso third with a time of 1:23.642.
In second practice, Hamilton once again clocked the best time of 1:21.018, Alonso improved on his previous lap with a 1:21.259, and Jenson Button was third fastest in 1:21.322. Both Mark Webber and Vettel failed to impress in second practice provoking Red Bull Racing to break the curfew on working hours in order to make drastic changes to the car.
This extra time spent working on the cars worked for Vettel because he then topped the leaderboard with a lap of 1:21.168, Alonso's fastest lap was 1:21.468 and Button clocked a lap off 1:21.639, Lewis Hamilton who topped the timings in the first two practices could only manage a 1:22.667, the seventh fastest time.
Qualifying
Q1 saw the three newest teams fall out again – the two closely matched
In the second qualifying session, every driver set a lap on the option tyres except two.
Sergio Pérez opted not to go out in the third part of qualifying, to save tyres and started tenth, alongside the Mercedes of Michael Schumacher, who was again beaten by teammate Nico Rosberg, who qualified seventh. Adrian Sutil continued his improved form to start eighth. Only the 3 big teams chose to do two timed runs and they occupied the top six places. Lewis Hamilton had a good lap, breaking the 1 minute, 20 seconds barrier for the first time that weekend. After they had all done their first stint, Hamilton was fastest with reigning world champion and championship leader Sebastian Vettel only slightly slower. Vettel improved his lap time on his second run, and took his eighth pole of the season. Hamilton joined him on the front row, ahead of Button, Massa, Alonso and Webber.
Race
After mixed conditions wreaked havoc in the
Vettel easily established a lead into the first corner, with Lewis Hamilton following in second after spending the first two corners successfully defending from Button in third. The Ferraris and Mark Webber struggled to get off the line on a damp track, the Mercedes cars of Rosberg and Michael Schumacher were fourth and fifth. Alonso and Webber dropped down to sixth and seventh, with Felipe Massa down in eighth followed by Paul di Resta and Kamui Kobayashi.
Massa took seventh from Webber early on the first lap, while Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso battled throughout the rest of the lap for fifth, culminating with Alonso passing Schumacher at the last corner. The Ferraris continued their recovery, as Alonso quickly dealt with Rosberg and closed in on Button, but he ran wide at Turn 3, allowing Rosberg to reclaim the position. Massa passed Schumacher, with Webber also following him through. Lewis Hamilton made repeated attempts to pass Vettel around Turns 1 and 2. The World Champion was able to hold him off until the fifth lap when he made a mistake and went wide at Turn 3, handing the lead to Hamilton, and allowing Jenson Button to catch up. Hamilton, now on a clear track was released and started to pull away from the rest of the field and was 5.5 seconds clear after ten laps. Alonso had by then taken fourth from Rosberg again, whereas his teammate Massa spun off on the slippery conditions, rejoining down in 9th. Jarno Trulli become the first retirement with a water leak.
As the track began to dry out, Webber was the first to pit for slick tyres and immediately set quick sector times. Button changed to slicks a lap later, but the leading duo of Hamilton and Vettel as well as Alonso stayed out a lap longer. Hamilton was unaffected due to the lead he had built, but Vettel and Alonso conceded places to Button and Webber who were able to pass them before they had fully heated up their slick tyres. After the entire field had pitted for slicks, the order at the front was Hamilton leading Button, followed by the Red Bulls of Vettel and Webber with Alonso, Rosberg, di Resta, Schumacher, Massa and Kamui Kobayashi completing the top ten.
Hamilton continued to extend his lead, building up a 9-second gap to Button by lap 20 while Button seemed to be preoccupied in holding back Vettel. However, then Button steadily began to close in on Hamilton whilst simultaneously pulling away from Vettel. Hamilton went to the pits for a new set of tyres, and was still comfortably ahead after Button and Vettel had made their respective stops. While Webber and Alonso fought for fourth, Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa battled for eighth until Schumacher retired with a gearbox problem.
Alonso made an extremely early third pitstop for a new set of super-softs in the hopes of emerging onto a clear circuit in an attempt to undercut Webber, but Webber responded by staying out longer and opting for the soft tyres during his stop. Even though this dropped him behind Alonso, it ensured that if the race stayed dry, he would not need to pit again, unlike Alonso. Button and Vettel also chose soft tyres, but Hamilton followed Alonso's suit and ran on the super-softs which meant that he, too, would need a further stop to make it to the finish. The race was interrupted by a brief shower a few laps later, making the circuit slippery again. Hamilton spun at Turn 8, forcing Paul di Resta off the circuit and allowing Button to catch up. Hamilton and Button traded places several times, with the leader being given the first choice for pit strategy. Hamilton prevailed, and elected to return to the intermediate tyre compound. However, the circuit started to dry out again within two laps, forcing Hamilton to make another stop for dry tyres. He was also given a drive-through penalty for forcing Paul di Resta off the circuit. Elsewhere, Heikki Kovalainen become the fourth and final retirement for the same reason as his teammate, giving Lotus Racing another double failure to finish.
This left Button leading from Vettel, as neither had pitted for the intermediates, while Hamilton dropped down to sixth behind Felipe Massa and Webber. Hamilton moved up to fifth when Massa made his final scheduled stop. Hamilton and Webber fought for fourth place, and as the two passed a massively congested midfield pack, Webber got stuck behind one of the backmarkers, allowing Hamilton the opportunity he needed to take fourth. Over half a minute in front of them, Alonso started closing in on Vettel at a rate that meant second place was a possibility by the end of the race, but then suffered another spin and he was forced to settle for third.
Jenson Button went on to win the race, his 200th Grand Prix start and the scene of his maiden victory ahead of Vettel in second and Alonso. Hamilton was fourth from Webber, whilst Massa – who had out-qualified Alonso for the first time since the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix – was the final car classified on the lead lap in sixth place. It was the fifth race in a row the driver who started in eighteenth place had gone on to score points when Buemi finished eighth. Di Resta triumphed over a midfield battle for seventh, with Rosberg dropping down to ninth behind Sébastien Buemi, whose teammate Jaime Alguersuari took the final point, whereas Kamui Kobayashi's tyre-saving strategy failed to work and left him outside the points.
The race set a record for the highest number of pit stops performed in a single race at 88.[7]
Classification
Qualifying
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Grid |
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1 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Renault
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1:21.740 | 1:21.095 | 1:19.815 | 1 |
2 | 3 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes
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1:21.636 | 1:21.105 | 1:19.978 | 2 |
3 | 4 | Jenson Button | Mercedes
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1:22.038 | 1:20.578 | 1:20.024 | 3 |
4 | 6 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:22.130 | 1:21.099 | 1:20.350 | 4 |
5 | 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:21.578 | 1:20.262 | 1:20.365 | 5 |
6 | 2 | Mark Webber | Renault
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1:22.208 | 1:20.890 | 1:20.474 | 6 |
7 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:22.996 | 1:21.243 | 1:21.098 | 7 |
8 | 14 | Adrian Sutil | Mercedes
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1:22.237 | 1:22.000 | 1:21.445 | 8 |
9 | 7 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:22.876 | 1:21.852 | 1:21.907 | 9 |
10 | 17 | Sergio Pérez | Sauber-Ferrari
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1:23.067 | 1:22.157 | no time | 10 |
11 | 15 | Paul di Resta | Mercedes
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1:22.976 | 1:22.256 | 11 | |
12 | 10 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault
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1:23.070 | 1:22.284 | 12 | |
13 | 16 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari
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1:23.278 | 1:22.435 | 13 | |
14 | 9 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault
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1:23.024 | 1:22.470 | 14 | |
15 | 11 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams-Cosworth
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1:23.075 | 1:22.684 | 15 | |
16 | 19 | Jaime Alguersuari | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:23.285 | 1:22.979 | 16 | |
17 | 12 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Cosworth
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1:23.847 | no time | 17 | |
18 | 18 | Sébastien Buemi | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:24.070 | 231 | ||
19 | 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | Renault
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1:24.362 | 18 | ||
20 | 21 | Jarno Trulli | Renault
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1:24.534 | 19 | ||
21 | 24 | Timo Glock | Virgin-Cosworth | 1:26.294 | 20 | ||
22 | 23 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT-Cosworth
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1:26.323 | 21 | ||
23 | 22 | Daniel Ricciardo | HRT-Cosworth
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1:26.479 | 22 | ||
24 | 25 | Jérôme d'Ambrosio | Virgin-Cosworth | 1:26.510 | 24 | ||
107% time : 1:27.288
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Source:[8]
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Note:
- ^ – Sébastien Buemi was demoted five grid places for causing an avoidable collision with Nick Heidfeld at the German Grand Prix.[9]
Race
Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 4 | Jenson Button | Mercedes
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70 | 1:46:42.337 | 3 | 25 |
2 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Renault
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70 | +3.588 | 1 | 18 |
3 | 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 70 | +19.819 | 5 | 15 |
4 | 3 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes
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70 | +48.338 | 2 | 12 |
5 | 2 | Mark Webber | Renault
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70 | +49.742 | 6 | 10 |
6 | 6 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 70 | +1:23.176 | 4 | 8 |
7 | 15 | Paul di Resta | Mercedes
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69 | +1 Lap | 11 | 6 |
8 | 18 | Sébastien Buemi | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 69 | +1 Lap | 23 | 4 |
9 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 69 | +1 Lap | 7 | 2 |
10 | 19 | Jaime Alguersuari | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 69 | +1 Lap | 16 | 1 |
11 | 16 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari
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69 | +1 Lap | 13 | |
12 | 10 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault
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69 | +1 Lap | 12 | |
13 | 11 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams-Cosworth
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68 | +2 Laps | 15 | |
14 | 14 | Adrian Sutil | Mercedes
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68 | +2 Laps | 8 | |
15 | 17 | Sergio Pérez | Sauber-Ferrari
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68 | +2 Laps | 10 | |
16 | 12 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Cosworth
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68 | +2 Laps | 17 | |
17 | 24 | Timo Glock | Virgin-Cosworth | 66 | +4 Laps | 20 | |
18 | 22 | Daniel Ricciardo | HRT-Cosworth
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66 | +4 Laps | 22 | |
19 | 25 | Jérôme d'Ambrosio | Virgin-Cosworth | 65 | +5 Laps | 24 | |
20 | 23 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT-Cosworth
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65 | +5 Laps | 21 | |
Ret | 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | Renault
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55 | Water leak | 18 | |
Ret | 7 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 26 | Gearbox | 9 | |
Ret | 9 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault
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23 | Fire/Explosion | 14 | |
Ret | 21 | Jarno Trulli | Renault
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17 | Water leak | 19 | |
Source:[10]
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Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
See also
References
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- ^ "World Motor Sport Council: 03/11/2010". fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 3 November 2010. Archived from the original on November 6, 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ Holt, Sarah (31 July 2011). "Jenson Button beats Sebastian Vettel in Hungary". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ Benson, Andrew (21 July 2011). "Jarno Trulli to return for Hungarian GP". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ "Bruno Senna to drive for Renault in Hungary Practice". BBC Sport. BBC. 24 July 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ "Pirelli announce tyre choices for remaining races". Formula1.com. Formula One Group. 7 October 2011. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Lynch, Steven (21 June 2013). "Box this lap..." ESPN. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ "FORMULA 1 ENI MAGYAR NAGYDÍJ 2011 - Qualifying Results". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "Buemi penalised for Heidfeld collision". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. 24 July 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ "FORMULA 1 ENI MAGYAR NAGYDÍJ 2011 - Race Results". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ a b "Hungary 2011 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
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