Silver Arrows Blaze To Victory In Scorching Hot Hungarian Grand Prix
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- Lewis today took his 48th career victory – his fifth at the Hungaroring and fifth of the 2016 season so far
- Nico completed a third Silver Arrows 1-2 of the season in P2
- Lewis (192) leads the Drivers' Championship by six points from Nico (186) in P2
- MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS (378) lead Ferrari (224) by 154 points in the Constructors' Championship
Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport
We’re delighted with today’s result. To take a one-two finish at a circuit that hasn’t been so good to us in the past two years is really satisfying. This place has been Red Bull and Ferrari territory, so it just shows what a great place we have got to with our chassis and engine package that we were able to take such a strong finish and control the race like we did. It was a race that needed a lot of management and we had told the drivers all weekend that winning would depend on making the tires last. They both did this really well – though when things got a bit close for comfort in the second stint, we asked Lewis to pick up the pace and he responded well to build the gap we needed after Red Bull rolled the dice with Ricciardo’s strategy. The back markers were a challenge like always here, particularly some of the usual suspects, but they didn’t end up influencing the outcome which was good. There has been a lot of talk about the Championship situation but, if this was a football match, we’d have only just completed the first half. There’s still a very long way to go this season. We have seen a lot of action so far and I am sure there will be much more to come…