Budapest: Michael Schumacher's 18th Hungarian Grand Prix descended into a comedy of errors on Sunday with the seven-times world champion's problems beginning on the grid and ending with an early retirement.
Schumacher, who took part in the race for the first time 20 years ago, has won four times at the Hungaroring but a fifth victory was out of the question from the moment he parked his Mercedes out of position.
The start had to be aborted and the field re-positioned while Schumacher's car was wheeled into the pit lane.
The 43-year-old then incurred a drive-through penalty for pitlane speeding and had to stop again due to a puncture. Although he fought his way up through the field with typical tenacity, his day ended in retirement from 18th place....
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11:46 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Budapest: Force India trail Williams by six points after failing to score a single point from the Hungarian Grand Prix as Nico Hulkenberg finished the race in the 11th position, just ahead of team-mate Paul di Resta, here on Sunday. Force India started the race with 46 points, just one behind Williams, but Bruno Senna earned six points by taking seventh position and increased the gap over the Indian outfit...
08:19 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Budapest, Hungary: Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, prolonging McLaren's dominance on the slow and winding Hungaroring circuit. Hamilton completed Sunday's race in 1 hour, 41 minutes, 5.503 seconds " more than a second ahead of Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen. Romain Grosjean, also of Lotus, was third. It was McLaren's sixth win here in eight years. "Really fantastic," Hamilton said over the team radio after the race....
07:35 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Budapest: Nico Hulkenberg qualified 10th for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix while Paul Di Resta missed out on Q3 in the qualifying session and will start the race in 12th position for Force India. Hulkenberg's best lap of the day came in Q2 when he clocked 1:21.653 but in Q3, his timing of 1:22.847 got him P10. Paul di Resta marginally improved his timing in Q2 (1:21.813) but that was not...
08:42 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Budapest: Lewis Hamilton of McLaren secured pole position for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, ahead of Romain Grosjean of Lotus and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton set a pace of 1 minute 20.953 seconds in Saturday's qualifying session, .413 seconds better than Grosjean, who achieved his first front-row start of the season. World championship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was sixth, behind McLaren's Jenson Button and fifth-place Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen....
07:05 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Budapest: Red Bull's Mark Webber, far from satisfied with his car on Friday, was fastest in the final practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix with a much-improved performance on Saturday. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, fastest in both of Friday's sessions, was second while Webber's Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel was third. Australian Webber, second in the Formula One championship behind Spain's Fernando Alonso, had said on Friday that Red Bull...
05:08 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Budapest: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was fastest in both practice runs for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday while Red Bull, hit by a new rule banning a controversial engine setting this week, endured two slow sessions. In a rain-hit second session, the British driver clocked a best time of one minute 21.995 seconds, slightly better than his first session time, followed by Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus and Williams' Bruno Senna....
08:39 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Ferrari cannot afford to make any mistakes in the second half of the Formula One season, championship leader Fernando Alonso warned on Thursday. Despite being 34 points clear of Red Bull's Australian Mark Webber after three wins in the opening 10 races, the Spaniard told reporters at the Hungarian Grand Prix that there was still little between the top teams. Although he is certain to lead into the summer break...
12:50 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso could celebrate his 31st birthday by winning his 31st Grand Prix on Sunday at the Hungaroring circuit where he chalked up his Formula One victory nine years ago. McLaren will hope to get the most out of their upgraded car after Lewis Hamilton's bad luck in Germany and champions Red Bull will want to put a troubled weekend in Hockenheim behind them. Alonso will go into the...
02:03 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Budapest: Sahara Force India is optimistic about the rest of the Formula One season at the halfway mark and wants to strengthen their position in the championship table in this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix to be held here at the Hungaroring. Team principal Vijay Mallya said that Force India had the best start in the season in terms of points scored. "So from that perspective I am satisfied and proud...
08:56 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Hockenheim: Red Bull boss Christian Horner remains optimistic about their team's chances despite Ferrari's Fernando Alonso gaining a 34-point lead in the Formula One World Championship. "The second half of the year is going to be again full on," said Horner in a press conference after the German Grand Prix. "Fernando's finished all the races in the points, he's won three races now, he's got a 34 point lead. But...
05:20 PM, Jul 23, 2012
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Jenson Button's career in Formula One has been enigmatic, to say the least. The British driver, who was dubbed as a 'phenomenon' when he started ...
04:56 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Budapest: Paul Di Resta recorded his best performance of the season with a seventh place finish but Adrian Sutil ended outside the points bracket as Force India garnered six points from the rain-hit Hungarian Grand Prix here on Sunday. Di Resta, who started 11th on the grid, sneaked into the top-10 in the opening lap itself and dished out a strong performance in treacherous weather conditions. The track was slippery...
08:57 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Budapest: Jenson Button celebrated his 200th Formula One race with victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, where Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel stretched his commanding lead in the championship with a second-place finish in wet conditions on Sunday. McLaren's Button was steadiest in the constant drizzle at the Hungaroring circuit to secure his 11th career victory, finishing 3.5 seconds in front of Vettel. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari finished third ahead of...
07:27 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Budapest: Force India's Adrian Sutil equalled his best qualifying performance of the season by yet again claiming the eighth spot on the grid while his team-mate Paul Di Resta will start at the 11th position in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix here. Sutil, who started eighth on the grid in Nurburgring last week, came up with yet another strong performance in his VJM04 and clocked an impressive 1:21.445s to move ahead...
09:30 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Budapest: Sebastian Vettel reminded his Formula One rivals that Red Bull remains the team to beat in the championship after taking pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The F1 leader's crew worked on his car through the night and the payoff was immediate as he stormed to a leading time of 1 minute, 19.815 seconds around the Hungaroring circuit on his last flying lap. McLaren took advantage of mixed...
06:56 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Budapest: Force India drivers - Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil - warmed up for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix with a top-10 finish in the second free practice session here on Friday. Resta finished ninth with the fastest lap time of 1:22.835, just ahead of Sutil, who clocked 1:22.981. Resta had managed 12th place in the first session when he clocked 1:25.336s for his fastest lap. Nico Hulkenbeg (1:25.357) was...
10:26 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Budapest: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, a surprise winner last weekend in Germany, continued to shine when he was fastest in both practice sessions on Friday for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Red Bull's Mark Webber crashed and lost his front wing in his first outing and was only fourth quickest second time out. Briton Hamilton has won twice at the Hungaroring and showed his love of the ageing circuit in the hills...
09:49 PM, Jul 29, 2011
