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More records for Hamilton as Mercedes

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Last week we expressed hope that Red Bull could find something extra to challenge Mercedes at the Hungaroring. But if anything, the RB16 was further away from the W11 than it had been at the Red Bull Ring, though Max Verstappen did a brilliant job to split the Mercedes duo.

As our report on page 18 shows, both Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas had to make amends for errors last Sunday – and they did. But way ahead of them was Lewis Hamilton, who has rarely looked more dominant than he did last weekend. Which is saying something!

It’s clear that the Mercedes has a significant advantage over the opposition this year, perhaps the biggest since 2016. And that means that Hamilton could break Michael Schumacher’s Formula 1 wins record of 91 this season, despite the truncated nature of the campaign.

But Hamilton’s 86th victory, which also puts him into the lead of the 2020 drivers’ world championship, provided other milestones. Hamilton’s eighth Hungarian GP win matched Schumacher’s record of the most wins at a single race (Schuey’s came in the French GP) and was the 150th world championship GP Lewis has led (which is also a record).

Perhaps the one that will mean most to Hamilton is that it was the 14th rain-affected win of his F1 career, putting him one ahead of his hero Ayrton Senna. The next target will be for Hamilton to take his seventh British GP win (a record) at the start of next month…

Kevin Turner Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com

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