2018 Hungarian Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

The Hungaroring is always one of the most difficult circuits to overtake on and this year was no exception.

Ferrari spent the entire race trying to prise the Mercedes cars out of the top two positions. It took until the final two laps, when Sebastian Vettel finally forced his way past Valtteri Bottas, whose tyres were badly worn.

Bottas then fell into the clutches of Daniel Ricciardo. The pair clashed initially, but Ricciardo recovered to take fourth place from the Mercedes on the final lap. That meant he finished eight places higher than he started, the best of any driver.

This was particularly impressive as Ricciardo lost four places from his original starting position of 12th. He moved up from when Sergio Perez was advised by his team to let Ricciardo through having passed him off-track on the opening lap.

Ricciardo also set the fastest lap of the race, but was unable to beat Michael Schumacher’s track record from 2004. Indeed Ricciardo’s best lap, a 1’20.012, was only one-tenth of a second quicker than last year’s fastest lap. Unusually, that was set by Fernando Alonso in a McLaren.

Despite his late-race drama, Bottas did not lose the most places of any driver. That was Carlos Sainz Jnr, who dropped four places from where he started. Although he got off the line well on his soft tyres, Sainz was crowded out at the start and preyed on by who started those behind on ultra-softs, He was eighth by the end of lap one.

“We need to look at something because from P5 to P9, we didn’t do something right,” he told his team at the end of the race.

Take a closer look at the Hungarian Grand Prix with our interactive data:

2018 Hungarian Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Click name to highlight, right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

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2018 Hungarian Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. Very large gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

Position change

Driver	Start position	Lap one position change	Race position change
Lewis Hamilton	1	0	0
Valtteri Bottas	2	0	-3
Sebastian Vettel	4	1	2
Kimi Raikkonen	3	-1	0
Daniel Ricciardo	12	-4	8
Max Verstappen	7	2
Sergio Perez	18	3	4
Esteban Ocon	17	3	4
Lance Stroll	20	1	3
Sergey Sirotkin	19	2	3
Nico Hulkenberg	13	3	1
Carlos Sainz Jnr	5	-3	-4
Pierre Gasly	6	0	0
Brendon Hartley	8	-1	-3
Romain Grosjean	10	-2	0
Kevin Magnussen	9	2	2
Fernando Alonso	11	0	3
Stoffel Vandoorne	15	2
Marcus Ericsson	14	-4	-1
Charles Leclerc	16

2018 Hungarian Grand Prix lap times

All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded). Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and toggle drivers using the control below:

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2018 Hungarian Grand Prix fastest laps

Each driver’s fastest lap:

Rank	Driver	Car	Fastest lap	Gap	On lap
1	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1’20.012		46
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1’20.056	0.044	70
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1’20.292	0.280	55
4	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’21.107	1.095	63
5	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1’21.261	1.249	69
6	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1’21.302	1.290	60
7	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso-Honda	1’21.685	1.673	64
8	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1’21.736	1.724	39
9	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Renault	1’22.090	2.078	68
10	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1’22.606	2.594	58
11	Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso-Honda	1’22.612	2.600	62
12	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1’22.660	2.648	51
13	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Renault	1’22.774	2.762	58
14	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1’22.876	2.864	63
15	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Renault	1’23.077	3.065	46
16	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1’23.263	3.251	56
17	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	1’23.671	3.659	53
18	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams-Mercedes	1’23.708	3.696	53
19	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1’23.985	3.973	5
20	Charles Leclerc	Sauber-Ferrari

2018 Hungarian Grand Prix tyre strategies

The tyre strategies for each driver:

	Stint 1	Stint 2	Stint 3
Lewis Hamilton	Ultra soft (25)	Soft (45)
Sebastian Vettel	Soft (39)	Ultra soft (31)
Kimi Raikkonen	Ultra soft (14)	Soft (24)	Soft (32)
Daniel Ricciardo	Soft (44)	Ultra soft (26)
Valtteri Bottas	Ultra soft (15)	Soft (55)
Pierre Gasly	Ultra soft (32)	Soft (38)
Kevin Magnussen	Ultra soft (31)	Soft (38)
Fernando Alonso	Soft (39)	Medium (30)
Carlos Sainz Jnr	Soft (25)	Medium (44)
Romain Grosjean	Ultra soft (29)	Soft (40)
Brendon Hartley	Ultra soft (24)	Medium (45)
Nico Hulkenberg	Soft (23)	Medium (27)	Ultra soft (19)
Esteban Ocon	Soft (39)	Ultra soft (30)
Sergio Perez	Ultra soft (22)	Soft (47)
Marcus Ericsson	Ultra soft (6)	Medium (62)
Sergey Sirotkin	Soft (31)	Medium (37)
Lance Stroll	Medium (47)	Ultra soft (21)
Stoffel Vandoorne	Soft (40)	Medium (9)
Max Verstappen	Ultra soft (5)
Charles Leclerc

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2018 Hungarian Grand Prix pit stop times

How long each driver’s pit stops took:

	Driver	Team	Pit stop time	Gap	On lap
1	Lance Stroll	Williams	21.291		47
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	21.337	0.046	15
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	21.364	0.073	44
4	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	21.480	0.189	25
5	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	21.509	0.218	31
6	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	21.684	0.393	32
7	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	21.732	0.441	40
8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	21.733	0.442	29
9	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	21.795	0.504	39
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	21.829	0.538	38
11	Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso	21.831	0.540	24
12	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Renault	21.914	0.623	25
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	21.966	0.675	23
14	Esteban Ocon	Force India	22.258	0.967	39
15	Sergio Perez	Force India	22.561	1.270	22
16	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	22.640	1.349	6
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	22.650	1.359	50
18	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	23.111	1.820	39
19	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	24.471	3.180	14
20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	25.126	3.835	31

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