Lewis Hamilton said on Saturday it would be “a miracle” if he could win the Hungarian Grand Prix, but on Sunday his dream came true as he clinched his first victory as a Mercedes driver.
It was a decisive and utterly-deserved triumph at the mid-way point in the 2013 season, his fourth in Hungary and the 22nd of his career.
More than that, it pushed him back into the fight for the world championship and sent a message to all of his rivals that they need to up their game when the title race resumes after Formula One’s European summer break. That will be in Belgium on August 25.