Hungarian GP driver ratings

From the sublime of Sebastian Vettel to the ridiculous of the thrice-punished Pastor Maldonado: how each finisher performed this weekend 

 

Asked about his chances on Thursday, Sebastian Vettel said he and Ferrari would "need to extract a perfect weekend". The result might suggest that’s what happened but he struggled during practice and was slower than Kimi Raikkonen on Friday afternoon. It started to come good during qualifying and as for the race...well, there was that start - total commitment, almost touching Lewis Hamilton’s car at full pelt on the run down to Turn 1. Job done. After that attentions were mainly focused on the action behind.

One can argue that Mercedes lost the race as much as Ferrari won it, but it was Vettel who exploited the situation and got the result as champions tend to. From P7 on the timesheets on Friday, he ended the weekend level with Ayrton Senna on 41 career wins. Much as was the case at Silverstone, he pulled a result out of the bag. 

Rating out of ten: 9

After making a slow start to life at Red Bull, Daniil Kvyat is starting to show the reason he is rated so highly by those in charge of the squad’s junior driver programme.

By all accounts Hungary was a tough weekend for the Russian as he struggled to find a set-up to match the pace of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo. However, a mature drive that belied his years saw him keep his car on the track and in one piece while others faltered, ultimately delivering a second-place finish.

Kvyat will have stronger weekends in his F1 career, but the ability to keep a cool head and not letting his frustrations boil over when ordered to let Ricciardo past - even if he did turn the airwaves blue - will stand him in good stead.