“Whoever said formula one is boring looks stupid now,” declared F1 legend Niki Lauda after a thrilling Hungarian grand prix.<\/p>\n
Sunday marked the end to Mercedes’ impressive and – to some – tedious run of dominance, as it was the first race in the new ‘power unit’ era not featuring a set of silver overalls on the post-race podium.<\/p>\n
Team boss Toto Wolff acknowledged it was a “great race for formula one” but joked to Bild newspaper: “Now I’m going to lock myself in the toilet and cry.”<\/p>\n
Even Bernie Ecclestone, the F1 ‘ringmaster’, gatecrashed Wolff’s media rounds to mischievously declare: “Thanks for making it interesting but you didn’t have to go overboard!”<\/p>\n
World champion Lewis Hamilton thinks it was his worst personal performance since Fuji 2008, even apologising on the radio long before the chequered flag.<\/p>\n
He denied the poignancy of the pre-race focus on Jules Bianchi’s death – culminating in the late Frenchman’s family joining the minute’s silence on the grid – had got to him.<\/p>\n
“It was nothing to do with that,” said Hamilton, although he did admit he struggled to sleep on Saturday night and had begun the race with a “strange” feeling.<\/p>\n
Jonathan McEvoy, the Daily Mail correspondent, said Hamilton’s driving belonged in an episode of ‘Wacky Races’, while Mercedes’ Lauda agreed that the Briton had been “too aggressive”.<\/p>\n
“Do I deserve any points?\u00a0 By the grace of god I got some,” Hamilton said afterwards.\u00a0 “When you make a fool of yourself — sometimes you just have to laugh it off and know you can do better,” he added.<\/p>\n
Teammate Nico Rosberg also admitted he was “gutted” the events of the race conspired against him, resulting in a second win of the season for Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and the two Red Bull drivers flanking him on the podium.<\/p>\n
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