Ricciardo wins drama-filled Hungarian GP

28 July 2014 - 02:00 By Reuters
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Daniel Ricciardo won the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix for Red Bull yesterday while Lewis Hamilton roared from pitlane to podium in another astonishing performance by the Mercedes driver.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was second and championship leader Nico Rosberg, who started on pole position for Mercedes, finished fourth and saw his lead over Hamilton cut from 14 points to 11.

Instead of Rosberg running away with the race, the race ran away from him, with his team beaten for only the second time in 11 races.

Ricciardo, a revelation in his first year at Red Bull, took the chequered flag 5.2secs ahead of the Spaniard for his second win of the season.

"It feels as good as the first win, it really does," beamed the Australian, who took his first win in Canada in June, after a rollercoaster of a race with two safety car periods.

"The safety car at first played to our advantage but the second didn't really help us, but we got there in the end and I had to do the overtaking at the end which was fun."

All of the top four had led over the course of a race that started after a brief downpour, was interrupted by two big crashes, continued with the ever-present threat of rain and finished on a knife-edge.

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