Sebastian Vettel has finally picked up his first Budapest victory in an action-packed Grand Prix. The race on Sunday was Vettel's second victory of the season, his second triumph for Ferrari, and notably his 41st victory which moves him level on wins with the legendary Ayrton Senna. Interestingly, Vettel has accomplished this in nine fewer races than the Brazilian.
The poor start by the Mercedes AMG drivers at yesterday's 2015 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix was taken advantage of by Ferrari, and star driver Sebastian Vettel, who stayed there right up until the end.
At one point of the race, Vettel even had a 30-second gap between the next best driver, though this lead was cut short by the arrival of the safety car on lap 42 when Force India's Nico Hulkenberg crashed into a tire wall. Thankfully, the German escaped unhurt.
Similar to Vettel who graduated to F1 from Red Bull's acclaimed young driver programme, the next three places in Sunday's race were also rather interestingly filled by drivers who have chosen the same career path - Daniil Kvyat, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen.
With his second place finish, Kvyat becomes the second youngest podium finisher in F1 history. At 21 years and 91 days old, the young Red Bull driver is just 18 days older than Vettel was when he won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix. Kvyat's result was also the best ever for a Russian driver in Grand Prix racing. The only other Russian to have ever stood on the rostrum was Vitaly Petrov, who came in third in Australia in 2011.
