Somehow Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull seems to start in pole position but fail to capitalize on this. At the Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix last Sunday, his team mate, Mark Webber was instead the victor. With Lewis Hamilton of McLaren crashing out of the race, it looks like the championship chase is still an open book too.

The race basically got on to a usual 'follow the leader' kind of opening lap but there was an incident that shook things up a little in lap 17. The Petronas Mercedes of Nico Rosberg lost a wheel right (below) after he pitted for a tire change. Upon pulling out the tire started detaching itself from the car and nearly hit some other team's pit crew. He was in sixth before the incident.

Pit lane incidents seem to be in abundance in Hungary, Robert Kubica of Renault was released too early by his lollipop man and he ran into Force India's Adrian Sutil just as he was about to enter the pit entry box. Due to this the Force India car couldn't continue but Renault was able to send Kubica out again where the race stewards slapped on him a 10-second stop-go penalty for an unsafe release from the pits.

There was a safety car incident that also allowed Lewis Hamilton to take the lead, but on lap 24 his transmission gave way on turn three. This makes it the second retirement suffered by the McLaren driver. This and another incident played things out to Mark Webber who was by this time running in fourth position. The incident in question is when the race stewards decided that Sebastian Vettel had to receive a 5 second drive through penalty for exceeding 10 cars lengths behind the safety car. Being the race leader at one point of the race, he had backed up the pack of cars too far from the safety car which was about to pull in to the pit lane.

Mark Webber also emerged the victor due to staying out longer as everyone pitted due to the safety car. Pulling fast laps somehow ensured that when he pitted for the second time, he still had a good 20seconds lead over the number two, Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari (which seem to be quietly performing after last week's team orders fiasco).

Results

1. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1h41:05.571

2. Alonso Ferrari + 17.821

3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault + 19.252

4. Massa Ferrari + 27.474

5. Petrov Renault + 1:13.100

6. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth + 1:16.700

7. De la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari + 1 lap

8. Button McLaren-Mercedes + 1 lap

9. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari + 1 lap

10. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth + 1 lap

11. Schumacher Mercedes + 1 lap

12. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1 lap

13. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes + 1 lap

14. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth + 3 laps

15. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth + 3 laps

16. Glock Virgin-Cosworth + 3 laps

17. Senna HRT-Cosworth + 3 laps

18. Di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth + 4 laps

19. Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth + 4 laps

Did not finish

Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 25 lap

Kubica Renault 25

Rosberg Mercedes 17

Sutil Force India-Mercedes 17

Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2

photos: planetf1