'Never felt I was going to lose it,' says Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton conquered his  48th career win at the Hungaroring and also became the very first F1 driver to wins five times at the Magyar venue.

With the exception of fending off a move by Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull into Turn 1, it was pretty much a routine afternoon for the Mercedes driver who exerted great control throughout, never allowing team mate Nico Rosberg - whom Hamilton crucially beat off the line - close enough to mount a challenge.

Indeed the British driver, who now leads in the championship standings for the first time in 2016, appeared to take a page out of the Alain Prost book of racing by travelling to the checkered flag at the slowest possible pace.

"Well firstly a big thank you to the fans, they’ve been amazing this weekend, " Hamilton said on the podium interview.

"It’s because of these guys that this race is so spectacular, we always have such a great time here, the track is great, the city is great but the fans really make the event so a big, big thank you. "

While it all looked cut and tried from the outside for Mercedes, Hamilton's crew did urge him to up the pace just before the midway point as his team was attentive to the speed of Daniel Ricciardo who had made an early second tyre change. But in retropsect, Hamilton was unworried.

"I had certain settings on my steering wheel which I felt I had to keep in order to get to A to B. By keeping those I wasn't able to get the perfect lap times, but I knew I would later on.

"It was really about give and take, and if I'd picked up the pace in those early moments I may not have been as quick in the last moments. Basically, I knew what I was doing."

By his own admission, Hamilton felt 100 percent in control of his race all afternoon.

"There was never a moment when I felt that I was going to lose it. This is a race where you don't need a five or ten second gap. I need to do what I just need to do, even if we win by a tenth of a second.

"I was just managing that gap of about two seconds. When I needed some time, I put my engine where it needed to be and I kept the time."

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