2014 Hungarian Grand Prix lap charts

Three problems stood in the way of Nico Rosberg converting pole position into victory at the Hungaroring.

The first of them did by far the most damage. Marcus Ericsson’s lap eight crash was a heavy frontal impact which led to the Safety Car and Medical Car being sent out onto the circuit immediately. Unfortunately for Rosberg – along with Valtteri Bottas, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso – it happened just as they were passing the pit lane entrance, so they missed the chance to pit immediately.

When the race restarted on lap 13 Rosberg was fourth ahead of Alonso (eighth) and Lewis Hamilton (thirteenth). Both ended the race in front of Rosberg, mainly thanks to his second problem. This was that his pace immediately after the restart, when most drivers were on slicks tyres on a damp track, wasn’t as good as his rivals’.

Hamilton immediately pounced on Bottas, Esteban Gutierrez and Nico Hulkenberg, then profited from Sergio Perez going off to gain four places in half a lap. At the same time Alonso got past Vettel. But Rosberg made a poor restart and was passed by Kevin Magnussen’s intermediate-shod McLaren.

The next time by Rosberg tried to re-pass Magnussen but couldn’t – and Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso capitalised. And while Rosberg braked cautiously for turn ten Alonso zapped around the outside of him. Now only Vettel’s Red Bull separated pole sitter Rosberg from Hamilton, who had started in the pit lane.

Rosberg toiled for 19 laps trying to pass Vergne, to no avail. Meanwhile Alonso pulled out a four-second advantage over the Mercedes. When Rosberg pitted Hamilton took his place on the tail of the Toro Rosso – and immediately passed Vergne at his first attempt.

The final nail in the coffin for Rosberg’s victory hopes was, of course, when he got stuck behind his team mate later in the race. Given his fresher tyres, this likely cost Rosberg a few seconds, which meant that at the end of the race he simply ran out of laps to make a move stick on Hamilton.

But of course Hamilton appreciated this, and was wise enough to ignore Mercedes’ entreaties for him to move aside. It was the third and final blow to Rosberg’s hopes of winning – though the two which preceded it did more damage.

Hungarian Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Use the controls below to show/hide different drivers:

https://www.racefans.net/charts/2014drivercolours.csv

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
Nico Rosberg	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	4	4	4	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	13	11	10	10	10	8	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	7	7	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Sebastian Vettel	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	7	7	7	7	8	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	7	13	13	13	13	12	12	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Valtteri Bottas	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	11	11	11	11	12	11	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	13	13	13	13	14	14	13	13	12	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	7	7	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Daniel Ricciardo	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1
Fernando Alonso	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	8	8	8	8	7	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	5	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Felipe Massa	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	5	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Jenson Button	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	2	2	2	2	1	3	18	16	15	15	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	10	9	9	8	7	6	6	6	13	13	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Jean-Eric Vergne	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	6	6	6	6	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Nico Hulkenberg	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	11	9	9	9	9	11
Daniil Kvyat	10	22	22	21	18	18	18	17	17	18	18	17	17	17	17	16	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	11	11	11	11	12	12	14	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Adrian Sutil	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	17	17	16	16	16	16	14	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	9	8	7	7	7	6	7	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Sergio Perez	12	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Esteban Gutierrez	13	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	13	12	12	12	12	13	12	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	12	16
Romain Grosjean	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	15	16	15
Jules Bianchi	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	7	16	15	15	15	15	15	14	19	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	16	16	15	15	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Kimi Raikkonen	16	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	6	6	5	5	5	5	4	3	4	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Kamui Kobayashi	17	16	16	16	17	17	17	18	19	20	20	19	19	19	19	18	16	14	14	14	15	15	16	15	15
Max Chilton	18	17	17	17	19	20	21	20	20	21	21	20	20	20	20	19	17	15	16	16	17	17	17	16	16	15	15	16	17	17	17	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Marcus Ericsson	19	19	20	22	22	22	22	22
Pastor Maldonado	20	18	18	18	21	21	20	21	21	19	19	18	18	18	18	17	15	18	19	19	19	19	19	18	18	17	17	17	16	15	15	14	13	12	12	11	11	11	10	10	8	8	7	10	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Kevin Magnussen	21	20	19	20	20	19	19	19	18	9	5	5	5	5	4	10	19	17	17	17	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	11	11	10	9	8	8	8	7	8	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Lewis Hamilton	22	21	21	19	16	15	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	9	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	2	5	5	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3

Hungarian Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap. Use the controls below to show/hide different drivers:

https://www.racefans.net/charts/2014drivercolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
Nico Rosberg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.099	3.216	2.917	2.98	5.539	6.797	7.796	8.854	9.078	9.487	9.897	10.577	9.992	11.35	2.44	1.711	1.293	1.753	2.267	2.772	3.796	4.23	8.293	27.837	28.256	27.143	27.312	28.147	25.465	24.939	24.374	24.073	22.906	20.93	20.189	19.662	19.376	19.07	18.908	18.956	18.452	18.294	18.019	17.066	13.069	5.114	9.168	25.729	25.247	26.279	26.141	23.334	21.304	18.619	15.212	12.651	9.342	6.233	5.427	5.848	6.361
Sebastian Vettel	3.09	4.669	6.208	7.376	8.306	9.57	9.819	11.406	1.854	5.36	5.797	5.932	4.169	6.737	7.334	8.398	9.534	9.813	10.532	11.028	11.44	10.942	11.702	3.647	2.166	1.741	2.619	3.063	3.582	4.64	5.083	8.453	15.039	34.382	35.184	35.996	36.869	34.985	34.54	35.955	37.506	40.214	40.365	40.942	41.665	42.323	42.716	43.367	43.784	44.007	44.35	44.402	43.58	39.806	31.575	31.991	32.553	32.872	33.295	34.065	34.201	34.446	34.61	34.61	34.727	34.958	35.568	37.647	40.055	40.964
Valtteri Bottas	2.718	4.086	5.708	6.765	7.762	9.112	9.067	10.522	1.578	7.812	10.863	9.296	5.81	9.751	9.791	12.196	14.24	15.569	16.926	18.19	19.018	18.554	24.019	19.242	10.628	5.874	9.191	13.358	15.677	17.671	21.024	22.043	23.362	24.515	25.852	26.776	27.792	28.068	27.883	29.327	30.781	31.65	31.221	31.871	32.64	33.209	33.623	33.853	34.003	33.73	33.394	33.306	32.323	28.181	20.242	21.036	21.994	23.241	27.615	46.261	44.285	42.816	40.962	39.012	37.862	36.827	36.152	38.037	40.523	41.344
Daniel Ricciardo	5.506	8.36	11.044	12.715	14.983	16.965	17.319	21.462	6.725	0	0	0	0	0.464	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.687	4.94	2.384	3.84	4.329	4.835	5.662	6.383	7.33	7.533	8.77	7.37	6.057	5.101	1.86	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.537	8.896	7.082	5.047	3.397	2.223	1.401	1.156	1.049	0.963	1.068	1.118	0.429	0	0	0
Fernando Alonso	3.941	6.532	8.049	9.004	10.853	11.987	11.508	14.053	2.429	6.298	6.935	6.991	4.354	6.237	6.321	6.178	5.646	5.412	5.958	6.597	7.009	6.876	7.451	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.526	17.434	16.772	17.087	17.318	16.091	15.984	16.232	15.868	15.642	15.623	15.626	15.214	14.806	14.52	13.418	8.936	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.479	4.763	5.225
Felipe Massa	7.294	10.615	13.833	16.652	19.626	23.052	23.791	29.214	18.793	1.979	1.779	1.802	1.601	3.114	2.012	3.11	3.824	4.417	5.092	5.532	6.038	5.204	6.04	6.58	5.738	3.18	5.197	5.795	7.062	8.025	8.502	9.541	10.165	11.338	12.194	12.62	12.921	10.604	10.047	11.478	12.555	13.433	13.553	14.517	18.469	37.682	37.314	37.272	37.119	36.848	36.573	36.36	35.227	30.82	22.487	23.162	23.816	24.397	25.616	25.806	26.326	26.089	26.202	26.64	26.63	26.388	26.102	27.557	28.965	29.841
Jenson Button	4.906	7.561	10.152	12.107	14.182	16.148	16.614	20.809	11.223	1.175	1.202	1.145	0.397	0	3.702	26.753	28.734	29.751	32.813	33.523	34.773	37.883	42.139	17.338	9.982	5.349	8.463	9.947	11.898	13.788	14.784	15.816	16.866	17.929	18.841	19.611	23.163	40.445	40.656	42.61	44.489	46.035	46.52	47.736	48.866	50.188	51.258	52.323	53.373	53.861	54.787	55.468	55.531	52.228	44.753	46.135	47.111	48.024	49.198	50.838	51.713	52.974	54.31	55.158	56.004	56.848	58.012	60.895	64.295	67.28
Jean-Eric Vergne	7.915	11.502	14.769	17.559	20.757	24.092	25.305	30.236	20.791	4.656	4.833	4.647	3.809	5.837	6.655	7.306	8.13	8.446	9.088	9.201	9.863	9.42	10.461	0.937	0.941	0.798	1.212	1.678	2.389	3.317	3.646	4.535	5.97	11.183	32.222	33.43	35.02	34.019	34.264	36.937	39.181	41.48	41.982	43.51	45.707	47.524	48.903	50.331	51.777	52.756	53.826	54.629	54.523	51.017	43.493	44.582	45.679	46.572	47.523	48.956	49.663	50.592	51.78	52.255	52.667	53.075	53.481	55.522	57.07	58.527
Nico Hulkenberg	6.661	9.936	12.892	14.86	17.212	19.461	20.071	24.453	22.033	6.698	7.532	7.89	4.649	8.616
Daniil Kvyat	22.413	25.143	29.719	34.103	37.425	41.045	43.787	49.855	40.351	13.955	17.253	16.41	8.988	12.051	12.742	15.242	17.798	19.555	21.719	23.847	25.71	26.455	31.839	12.379	9.12	4.942	8.017	11.369	13.235	18.8	39.829	40.961	43.202	44.607	45.874	48.109	50.581	49.609	50.204	54.279	56.164	58.712	59.008	60.283	61.814	63.034	63.792	66.298	70.016	71.155	72.052	73.236	74.719	72.097	64.971	66.837	68.257	69.464	70.935	73.402	76.825	79.016	81.867	85.675	87.389	93.654	97.918	102.298	107.813
Adrian Sutil	10.492	15.229	19.352	23.282	27.092	30.663	31.968	39.213	38.833	13.247	16.734	15.811	8.497	11.6	11.677	14.278	16.403	18.748	21.13	22.864	24.586	25.051	30.643	11.376	8.352	4.374	7.158	9.027	11.534	14.75	16.556	18.309	19.69	21.085	22.433	23.169	24.383	23.012	26	46.914	47.644	47.886	47.65	48.698	49.794	51.064	51.799	53.067	54.225	54.894	55.655	56.523	56.21	53	45.543	46.855	48.045	48.745	49.949	51.495	52.512	53.732	55.345	56.38	57.259	58.096	59.314	62.252	65.332	68.169
Sergio Perez	9.383	13.224	17.119	19.875	23.455	27.132	28.86	35.574	23.338	7.006	9.64	8.388	5.404	8.287	8.824	10.274	11.563	12.708	14.094	15.026	15.817	16.146
Esteban Gutierrez	10	14.532	18.597	22.337	25.587	29.161	30.167	37.093	24.753	8.571	11.927	10.092	6.194	10.281	10.487	12.896	15.082	16.925	18.665	20.211	21.834	21.887	26.015	8.251	6.42	3.512	5.889	7.664	9.389	13.736	20.949	32.448
Romain Grosjean	11.654	17.079	21.528	25.52	29.105	33.226	35.235	43.927	34.116	11.522
Jules Bianchi	12.448	17.626	22.118	27.046	31.42	35.639	37.686	45.221	16.04	12.755	15.667	15.008	8.145	11.286	12.686	17.485	50.414	79.319	83.065	86.509	89.878	108.569	114.634	77.251	38.785	7.474	11.289	15.359	19.78	22.758	26.466	29.666	32.641	36.59	39.582	42.257	44.957	45.005	46.601	50.637	55.019	61.136	83.635	85.663	87.868	91.406	93.116	94.841	96.33	97.708	99.212	100.662	102.649	100.459	96.481	100.611	102.626	104.268	106.006	107.904	109.51	111.944	114.516	119.224	121.181	123.518	128.432	133.31	137.472
Kimi Raikkonen	10.964	15.914	19.838	23.8	27.704	31.415	33.097	42.661	33.73	10.613	14.619	13.819	7.012	10.655	10.721	13.192	15.44	17.26	19.067	20.912	22.419	22.66	29.555	9.958	7.555	3.865	6.456	8.033	10.672	12.735	12.823	13.803	14.266	14.698	15.038	15.022	15.619	13.28	12.862	14.079	18.296	38.706	38.824	38.896	39.02	38.974	38.272	38.168	37.815	37.229	37.037	36.99	35.939	31.228	23.117	23.901	24.446	24.743	25.933	26.995	27.151	26.91	27.204	27.639	27.74	27.586	27.341	28.858	30.335	31.491
Kamui Kobayashi	13.764	20.471	25.508	30.609	35.309	40.335	44.586	54.947	57.508	25.191	18.862	18.387	10.779	13.389	13.983	18.309	25.332	28.664	32.353	36.667	40.066	47.086	52.838	22.386
Max Chilton	14.464	21.836	28.178	35.382	42.01	48.217	52.802	64.728	62.489	32.879	19.995	19.881	11.881	14.946	16.657	21.914	28.134	33.359	38.058	42.554	45.62	52.443	59.2	24.433	12.352	7.281	11.958	17.387	21.156	25.238	28.437	31.89	35.368	38.376	41.55	44.202	47.224	47.682	49.579	53.829	58.556	61.608	63.839	66.677	72.774	95.074	95.888	97.066	98.373	99.25	100.38	101.611	103.997	103.995	97.99	101.171	103.221	105.214	106.902	108.814	111.531	113.677	118.591	120.464	122.38	126.183	129.052	134.006	137.976
Marcus Ericsson	16.158	23.388	31.094	37.058	43.142	48.555	53.507
Pastor Maldonado	15.14	22.2	28.675	36.288	42.38	45.51	53.187	65.322	53.419	20.334	17.573	17.122	9.649	12.786	13.216	17.756	43.341	79.664	83.562	87.084	91.937	109.322	114.937	78.319	40.232	8.129	12.309	15.704	18.233	20.337	22.208	24.993	26.959	29.766	30.926	32.221	33.463	32.305	32.639	34.615	36.542	38.143	42.244	61.607	62.444	63.645	64.235	66.65	70.691	71.804	72.718	73.744	75.209	72.688	65.448	67.264	68.767	70.305	71.441	73.842	74.141	74.916	75.69	76.053	76.316	76.714	77.409	80.007	82.558	84.024
Kevin Magnussen	16.25	22.84	29.384	35.631	38.455	42.005	45.03	50.299	19.224	3.753	3.938	3.451	3.478	5.407	9.762	32.209	36.123	36.718	38.184	38.3	40.454	42.324	46.13	20.962	11.319	6.337	9.675	12.016	13.772	15.886	17.535	20.051	21.333	22.541	23.615	24.634	25.602	24.351	27.33	47.864	48.773	49.545	49.64	50.503	51.592	52.268	52.876	54.345	55.939	57.883	59.846	60.922	60.952	57.959	50.768	52.56	54.072	55.483	56.969	58.611	59.977	61.153	62.366	63.038	64.046	65.249	66.877	70.697	74.695	78.465
Lewis Hamilton	21.174	23.773	28.732	29.505	31.358	33.106	33.18	39.946	26.691	9.41	13.748	13.018	6.386	7.067	7.927	8.721	9.898	10.259	10.833	11.383	11.805	11.347	13.847	4.735	3.303	2.111	3.068	3.595	4.013	5.168	5.521	6.557	6.357	6.673	5.458	4.029	3.295	0	1.339	21.435	20.875	19.947	18.525	18.437	18.57	18.291	17.841	18.098	18.021	17.557	17.23	16.717	15.731	11.788	3.878	3.913	3.315	2.634	1.612	1.25	0.812	0.733	0.51	0.582	0.557	0.636	1.169	3.922	5.274	5.857

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5 comments on “2014 Hungarian Grand Prix lap charts”

Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
27th July 2014, 20:22

I told my friend mid race that Rosberg was looking very uncomfortable. We thought it was because of that smoke coming out of his rear left tyre, maybe there was a problem of some sort, but no. It was just lack of pace. In the end, he lost position on his own, not from strategy and that must hurt quite badly…
Michael C (@surface)
27th July 2014, 20:36

Lewis’ tyre deg wouldn’t have been helped by the damaged front wing, I think he drove a better race than most of us realise. Nico getting stuck behind Vergne cost him more than the other thing everyone’s on about.
Kingshark (@kingshark)
27th July 2014, 20:49

Look at Alonso’s position gain after the SC came in on lap 13.

What a beast of a driver.
MattDS
28th July 2014, 14:24

Conclusion from the above graph: put Hamilton on 2 soft stints instead of 1 medium stint, see him overtake Alonso during the first of those stints and (almost) close the gap to Ricciardo, then pit again for softs in Ricciardo’s wake, easily re-overtake Alonso and then go on to win by overtaking Ricciardo?

I think Mercedes misjudged the big speed advantage the softs offered over the mediums, while lasting reasonably well too.
1. Timorous
  28th July 2014, 20:44
  
  One stint on softs would have been enough to get the victory for Hamilton and it would have moved him out of Rosbergs way enabling him a guaranteed 3rd and a possibility of 2nd.