McLaren was the winner...

McLaren was the winner and loser at last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Although Lewis Hamilton dominated the event, leading every lap for the British squad, it scored NO points for the constructor’s championship after being found guilty of not acting in the best interests of the sport.

The team should have scored 15 points and increased its lead in the teams’ title race by 7 points. Instead, bitter rival Ferrari ate into McLaren’s advantage by eight points. However, Hamilton came away with his third win of the season. He started from pole position after team-mate Fernando Alonso was judged to have stayed in the McLaren pit too long to prevent Hamilton having a final run in qualifying. It led to a bust-up between Lewis and team boss Ron Dennis but despite this, the British driver believes it’s going to be difficult for Ferrari to stop him becoming the first rookie in Formula One history to win the championship.

He said: “You can imagine, all the drama that"s gone on over the weekend, it would have been easy to lose focus. It"s been a bit of a downer on the team, but the great thing is that the team remains positive and the energy in the team still remains. And it just proves that there"s nothing that can stop us. So with that in mind, I"m able to get in the car and do my job and obviously I know how to win races.”

The Brit also revealed that as well as beating Ferrari star Kimi Raikkonen who pushed him hard throughout the race he also had to overcome wonky steering. He explained: “Quite early on in the race, in the second stint, I had a problem with my steering. I don"t really know what that it was but it made it quite difficult to keep the pace. As you could see, I dropped off a little bit and I was a bit nervous that something was going to break, but thank God it didn"t.”

Hungarian Grand Prix results:

1. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes

2. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari

3. Nick Heidfeld, BMW-Sauber

4. Fernando Alonso, McLaren-Mercedes

5. Robert Kubica, BMW-Sauber

6. Ralf Schumacher, Toyota

7. Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota

8. Heikki Kovalainen, Renault