F1 mid-season report: Drivers

Motor Racing - Formula One World Championship - Hungarian Grand Prix - Race Day - Budapest, Hungary

Sebastian Vettel: 9/10

The Ferrari is a much-improved car this year, but Vettel has been back to his old self at his new home. Quick in qualifying, Vettel has regularly been the biggest threat to Mercedes and delivered two faultless drives for victory in Malaysia and Hungary. Bahrain was Vettel’s one poor weekend and he still finished fifth, with Canada and Austria the only other two races where he failed to finish on the podium - the former due to a reliability issue in qualifying (but he still recovered to fifth) and the latter due to a slow pit stop dropping him to fourth place. The title is a long shot, but on current form Vettel will get the maximum out of the majority of weekends to keep the pressure on the leaders.