{"id":17556,"date":"2021-08-01T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131940"},"modified":"2021-08-01T22:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:28:45","slug":"formula-1-esteban-ocon-wins-the-hungarian-gp-hamilton-leads-the-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/formula-1-esteban-ocon-wins-the-hungarian-gp-hamilton-leads-the-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Esteban Ocon wins the Hungarian GP, Hamilton leads the championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esteban Ocon of France wins the Hungarian Grand Prix and is a Formula 1 race winner for the first time. The Frenchman ended ahead of Sebastian Vettel (P2) and Lewis Hamilton (P3) in a chaotic race in Hungary on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ESTEBAN OCON WINS IN HUNGARY!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HungarianGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HungarianGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STILLLEADING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STILLLEADING<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OconEsteban?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OconEsteban<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gjbIbtx1wx\">pic.twitter.com\/gjbIbtx1wx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BWT Alpine Formula One Team (@AlpineF1Team) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlpineF1Team\/status\/1421850364278673409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton was lowered to the last place following a tactical mistake. The British pulled his route through the field past Fernando Alonso and finalised being at the third position behind Ocon and Sebastian Vettel in the Aston Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a moment! It feels so good!,\u201d the Hungarian GP winner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic, what can I say? Congrats to Fernando (Alonso) as well, I think the win is also thanks to him with the fight that he did. It\u2019s teamwork, it\u2019s been a fantastic day!\u201d Ocon added.<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen got involved in an accident and his Red Bull was damaged in the collision after which, five cars were affected by the occurrence were taken out that ultimately made him finish 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes aroused a cycle of crashes on the opening turn that resulted in taking him out of the race as well as Sergio Perez of Red Bull, Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, Lance Stroll\u2019s Aston Martin and Lando Norris\u2019 McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuck hasn\u2019t been on our side for the first half of the season mad it definitely wasn\u2019t today. Huge shame as it was a big opportunity,\u201d tweeted Leclerc.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luck hasn't been on our side for the first half of the season and it definitely wasn't today. Huge shame as it was a big opportunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EV4bSZ6fiy\">pic.twitter.com\/EV4bSZ6fiy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Leclerc (@Charles_Leclerc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charles_Leclerc\/status\/1421870290527821827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton is currently seeing the team doctor as he suffered from fatigue and mild dizziness as updated by Mercedes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LewisHamilton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LewisHamilton<\/a> is currently seeing the team doctor, suffering from fatigue and mild dizziness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1421866829908168714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is currently leading the championship while Verstappen is six points behind the Briton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DRIVER STANDINGS<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton regains the lead of the championship, but Verstappen is just SIX points behind as we head into the break \ud83e\udd0f<\/p>\n<p>No points scored in the fight for third \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HungarianGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HungarianGP<\/a> \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hBy5RHI1EY\">pic.twitter.com\/hBy5RHI1EY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1421868901009395713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esteban Ocon wins the Formula 1 race as he finished ahead of Sebastian Vettel (P2) and Lewis Hamilton (P3) at the theatrical race in Hungary.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2486,1372,402,931,1616,2487,404,1617,2088],"class_list":["post-17556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-aston-martin","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-formula-1","tag-red-bull"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}