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2012 2012 HUNGARIAN HUNGARIAN GRAND GRAND PRIX PRIX RACE RACE REPORT REPORT
29TH 29 JULy 2012
TH JULy 2012
HUNGARORING HUNGARORING CIRCUIT CIRCUIT
LEWIS HAMILTON
Started 1 st
Finished 1 st
Fastest lap 1m25.831s
Points 117 (4 th )
“Well, what can I say?! I’m over the moon! The
team did a fantastic job! Absolutely brilliant! It was
a really enjoyable race – but it wasn’t at all easy. In
fact, I reckon that it was one of the toughest races
I’ve ever driven – but, guess what, I’ll savour it all
the more for that.
I was under a lot of pressure throughout all 69
laps. First, Romain [Grosjean] and then Kimi
[Raikkonen] were right behind me, all the way
through, and I had to look after my tyres without
letting my pace drop, which was pretty tricky at
times. It was a case of managing the gap behind
me, over the whole lap, every lap. In particular,
I had to make sure that, every lap, I always had
a big enough gap at the last corner, so that I
wouldn’t be overtaken in the DRS zone on the
pitstraight. And I managed to do that every time.
As I say, the team did an absolutely incredible job
– and the support we’ve had here in Budapest, not
only from the visiting British fans but also from the
local Hungarian fans, has been phenomenal. And
to be able to win a Grand Prix on the weekend
that the Olympic Games started in the UK too,
well, I feel like we’ve done our part to contribute to
what I hope will be many more British successes
over the Olympic Games period. Someone has
just told me that we’ve scored Britain’s first gold
medal of 2012. Well, it isn’t really that, is it? But
it’s the first British victory of the Olympic Games
period, which is pretty cool.”