F1 Hungarian Grand Prix: 5 reasons why Lewis Hamilton won the race

#1 Bottas brilliantly held up Vettel

Bottas held up Vettel

Valtteri Bottas can consider himself very unfortunate to have finished fifth in a race he started at second. The Mercedes driver proved his worth from the very beginning and picked up the pace midway after a slow section in the race.

After Vettel's slow pit-stop however, he determinedly beat off the threat of the scarlet Ferrari of Vettel despite being on the harder of the two tyres and perhaps the slower of the two cars. Vettel simply couldn't get past Bottas which resulted in Hamilton opening up a significant gap ahead of the pair while in the clear.

Such was the pace of Hamilton thanks to Bottas' hold-up of Vettel, that even when the German finally got past his Finnish counterpart, he was still way behind Hamilton. Bottas' contact with Vettel, unfortunately, cost him a few places and the Finn finished in the fifth position.