F1 2017 results: Sebastian Vettel wins Hungarian Grand Prix, plus full finishing order

Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari went from pole to victory at the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. Vettel had some car issues in the latter half of the race and had to hold off teammate Kimi Raikkonen and the Mercedes cars of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, but he managed to do so.

Hamilton started fourth and ended up past his teammate until the final lap, when they swapped positions. He was attacking Raikkonen in the latter half of the race, and he desperately needed the points as he came into Sunday’s race trailing Vettel by a single point in the Drivers Championship.

But it will be 25 points for Vettel to extend his lead, and just 12 points for Hamilton. Raikkonen took second place, with Bottas in third. Max Verstappen finished fifth for Red Bull despite a penalty early in the race.

Bottas was about the same speed as Hamilton near the end of the race but Mercedes didn’t give the order to swap the two cars because Hamilton was close enough to Raikkonen. They did swap on the final lap right before the end, however.

Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull was a victim of his young teammate, Verstappen. Both Red Bulls got off to a good start, and going around one of the fist turns, Ricciardo gave Verstappen more than enough room, but the latter suffered serious understeer problems and crashed into his teammate. Verstappen left the scrap in fourth place while Ricciardo became the first person eliminated from the race.

Verstappen took a 10-second time penalty for his role in the crash. That was the start of the race, with the only other incident involving Romain Grosjean of Haas and Nico Hulkenberg of Renault, but the stewards ultimately decided that nobody was at fault there.

Hamilton tried to pass Verstappen shortly after racing resumed, but eventually things calmed down as he was unable to secure the quick pass. With Verstappen having the time penalty, it was only a matter of time. By then, Bottas was clear of Verstappen by a couple seconds.

Bottas became the first of the leaders to come in on Lap 31, and had a slow pit stop of 3.5 seconds. He was trying to pull off the undercut, and came out in fifth behind Verstappen and Hamilton, as well as the two Ferraris. Hamilton came in on the following lap and rejoined the track behind Bottas.

The Ferrari drivers went into the pits and came out with Vettel in second and Raikkonen in third, behind Verstappen, who had yet to pit. Raikkonen came over team radio and said that there was still pace in the tires they’d just changed him off.

Carlos Sainz of Toro Rosso and Fernando Alonso of McLaren nearly came together in the pits when they released close to each other, but managed to avoid contact. After scrapping around the first few turns, Alonso used DRS to get ahead of Sainz for the ninth spot.

On Lap 40, team radio told Bottas that Vettel had some car troubles and that he would catch him, and the question became whether Ferrari would instruct Vettel to allow Raikkonen, less than two seconds down, to get past him. Verstappen came in to pit and after his penalty, he came back out in fifth place.

Bottas was told by his team that Hamilton would let him by if Hamilton couldn’t get past Raikkonen. Raikkonen, though, was pushing Vettel for the race lead, making it to less than a second behind his teammate by Lap 53.

Paul di Resta started the race for Williams because Felipe Massa bowed out while feeling unwell. Di Resta ran primarily his own race near the back of the pack, which was to be expected given the short notice. Di Resta unfortunately had to stop the car with an issue on Lap 63.

Below is the full finishing order for Sunday’s race.