Hamilton wins at the Hungaroring

Lewis Hamilton has won the Hungarian Grand Prix. He led from the start to take his second victory of the season, despite pressure from the Lotuses of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean.

The start of the race was delayed, which forced Michael Schumacher to switch off his overheating engine on the grid. The drivers set off on a second formation lap, while Schumacher's car was pushed back into the pits. The extra formation tour reduced race distance from 70 to 69 laps.

Schumacher's mechanics quickly got his car running again and he was allowed to start the race from the pit lane. But within a few laps, he had pitted for new tyres, was investigated for speeding in the pit lane and handed a drive-through penalty. This on a track where drivers lose around 20 seconds making a pit stop. He eventually retired from the race on lap 60.

When the race finally got going, Hamilton made a strong start and was into turn one ahead of Grosjean, who starting a Grand Prix on the first row of the grid for the first time.

Jenson Button managed to squeeze past Sebastian Vettel through the opening corners, while Red Bull teammate Mark Webber was up from 11th on the grid to seventh.

Following pit stops for medium tyres, Hamilton was still leading but was under constant pressure from Grosjean. But after a long middle stint, Raikkonen managed to jump his teammate into second place on lap 45.

Meanwhile, Pastor Maldonado was busy driving into the side of Paul di Resta's Force India. He managed to make the pass stick, but the incident was investigated by the stewards and the Williams driver was handed a drive-through penalty.

Grosjean then became under more and more pressure from reigning world champion, Sebastian Vettel, who was determined to finish on the podium. He set a series of fastest laps, but failed to make it past the Frenchman.

Hamilton finished the race just a second ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, while Romain Grosjean finished third.

Vettel finished fourth, ahead of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, while Bruno Senna crossed the line in seventh for Williams. Mark Webber, Felipe Massa and Nico Rosberg took the last of the points.

This result means that Fernando Alonso has extended his lead in the driver's championship to 164 points, ahead of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel with 124 and 122 respectively. In the constructors' championship, Red Bull has 246 points, to McLaren's 193.

2012 Hungarian Grand Prix results