Hamilton takes Hungarian GP pole (From Penarth Times)

Vettel dedicated his win to Jules Bianchi as did the other drivers on the podium.

Bernie Ecclestone had flown the Bianchi’s family to the race on a private jet from Nice. There was minute’s silence before the race in honour of the driver who died last week, as a result of injuries sustained at Suzuka past year. “Thank you Jules, You will always be in our hearts This win is for you”.

“Today was incredibly weird”, said a bemused Hamilton. “They told me when I arrived at the garage that it wasn’t possible because of the regulations and I didn’t know that”.

No3 driver Daniel Ricciardo finished third after a trio of crashes with Valterri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

Daniil Kvyat came second and Daniel Ricciardo completed the podium, fighting back after damaging his front wing in a collision with Rosberg, who punctured his tyre in the incident and fell back to ninth.

Instead, Hamilton finished sixth and Rosberg was eighth.

A few moments before the race started, Bianchi’s mother Christine and father Philippe, brother Tom and sister Melanie joined the drivers as they all linked arms on the Hungaroring grid. I gave it everything and I owe my race to Jules. “I think I definitely had a bad day at the office – a very bad day at the office – but the team did a great job with the calls so I could at least get a couple of points.”

Hamilton, who had dominated practice and qualifying, was sluggish getting away from pole and Vettel went past on the outside.

The defending world champion, bidding for a record fifth Hungarian Grand Prix victory, again out qualified Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel a distant third on the time sheets.

The top three were separated by less than two seconds with eight of the 69 laps remaining, but Ricciardo then sailed underneath Rosberg at turn one but as the German tried to take the position back he collided with the Red Bull driver.

Mercedes motorsport boss Wolff felt Ricciardo’s move was “questionable” and it was “more of a mistake” of the Australian, but like Rosberg he accepted the stewards’ decision.

“I’m so sorry guys, really sorry”, a contrite Hamilton said on radio.

The Briton leads Rosberg by 17 points.

Heading into the summer break, Hamilton extended his lead over Rosberg by four point to 21 – 202 vs 181 – while Vettel on 160 has clawed back his deficit on Hamilton to 42.

It is the first time Hamilton has failed to finish on the podium since the Belgian GP last August.

The gap had been 16 seconds, but Hamilton was just seven adrift of his team-mate when the race was thrown the most spectacular of curveballs.

Starting from pole position, Hamilton dropped to fourth at the first corner as the Ferraris of Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen got the jump on both Silver Arrows.

“There have been some incredible ups and downs that we go through”, Vettel said pausing to clear his throat. The win moves the four-time world champion to within 42 points of Hamilton, but that was not the focus yesterday’s post-race celebrations.

Rosberg, who will start second on Sunday, was more than half a second slower than Hamilton’s fastest lap and said that he did not know why.