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2007 Hungarian Grand Prix

The 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Magyar Nagydíj 2007) was the eleventh race of the 2007 Formula One season and was held on 5 August 2007 at the Hungaroring racing track in Budapest. It was also memorable for an incident in the Saturday qualifying session, between McLaren teammates Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.

Hamilton went into the race with a 2-point advantage in World Championship points over Alonso and was 11 points ahead of 3rd place man Felipe Massa after a chaotic European Grand Prix, whilst McLaren held a 27-point lead in the Constructors’ Championship over their main rivals Ferrari. Ralf Schumacher scored his last World Championship points at this race.

Japanese former Super Aguri driver Sakon Yamamoto filled the second Spyker car, replacing European GP leader, German Markus Winkelhock. Sebastian Vettel, the youngest Grand Prix point scorer made his second Grand Prix start replacing Scott Speed at Scuderia Toro Rosso.

Controversy hit the qualifying sessions when Hamilton failed to honor an agreement to let Alonso past on track; this denied Alonso a competitive advantage when setting his lap time. Alonso then retaliated by holding Hamilton up in the pit lane, to in turn deny Hamilton a chance to record a final lap time. Stewards later dropped Alonso five places down the starting grid of the race, putting him in sixth while Hamilton started in pole position. McLaren were also told they would not score any Constructor’s Championship points in the race and wouldn’t be presented with a winning constructor’s trophy on the podium if one of their drivers were to win the race. The team stated Hamilton’s hold-up was not Alonso’s fault (although Alonso gave the stewards a different explanation, that he was inquiring about his tyres), and that Hamilton had disobeyed team orders to let Alonso pass him, which put the two drivers out of sequence for their pit stops. McLaren had initially expressed their intent to appeal the Constructor’s points penalty but ultimately withdrew their appeal after subsequently losing all their Constructor’s points as penalty for the espionage scandal.

2007 Hungarian Grand Prix
Race 11 of 17 in the 2007 Formula One World Championship
Hungaroring (GP track)
Race details
Date	5 August 2007
Official name	Formula 1 Magyar Nagydíj 2007
Location	Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.381 km (2.722 mi)
Distance	70 laps, 306.663 km (190.552 mi)
Weather	Sunny, temperatures reaching up to 27 °C (81 °F)
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
Time	1:19.781
Fastest lap
Driver	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari
Time	1:20.047 on lap 70
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
Second	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari
Third	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber
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Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	1	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Mercedes	1:20.425	1:19.661	1:19.674	6¹
2	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:19.570	1:19.301	1:19.781	1
3	9	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:20.751	1:20.322	1:20.259	2
4	6	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:20.435	1:20.107	1:20.410	3
5	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:20.547	1:20.188	1:20.632	4
6	11	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:20.449	1:20.455	1:20.714	5
7	10	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:20.366	1:20.703	1:20.876	7
8	3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:21.645	1:20.590	1:21.079	13²
9	12	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:20.481	1:19.951	1:21.206	8
10	15	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:20.794	1:20.439	1:21.256	9
11	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	1:21.291	1:20.718		10
12	4	Heikki Kovalainen	Renault	1:20.285	1:20.779		11
13	17	Alexander Wurz	Williams-Toyota	1:21.243	1:20.865		12
14	5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:20.408	1:21.021		14
15	23	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri-Honda	1:21.018	1:21.127		15
16	18	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:21.730	1:21.993		16
17	7	Jenson Button	Honda	1:21.737			17
18	8	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:21.877			18
19	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	1:22.143			19
20	19	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:22.177			20
21	20	Adrian Sutil	Spyker-Ferrari	1:22.737			21
22	21	Sakon Yamamoto	Spyker-Ferrari	1:23.774			22
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Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	70	1:35:52.991	1	10
2	6	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	70	+0.715	3	8
3	9	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	70	+43.129	2	6
4	1	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Mercedes	70	+44.858	6	5
5	10	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	70	+47.616	7	4
6	11	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	70	+50.669	5	3
7	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	70	+59.139	4	2
8	4	Heikki Kovalainen	Renault	70	+1:08.104	11	1
9	15	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	70	+1:16.331	9
10	12	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	69	+1 lap	8
11	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	69	+1 lap	10
12	3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	69	+1 lap	13
13	5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	69	+1 lap	14
14	17	Alexander Wurz	Williams-Toyota	69	+1 lap	12
15	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	69	+1 lap	19
16	19	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	20
17	20	Adrian Sutil	Spyker-Ferrari	68	+2 laps	21
18	8	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	68	+2 laps	18
Ret	18	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	42	Electrical	16
Ret	23	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri-Honda	41	Collision	15
Ret	7	Jenson Button	Honda	35	Throttle	17
Ret	21	Sakon Yamamoto	Spyker-Ferrari	4	Accident	22
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