Max Verstappen wins the Hungarian Grand Prix: F1 – as it happened

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Verstappen overtakes Leclerc again!

45/70 Why Leclerc went on hard tyres is a mystery. Verstappen goes past him again, on the inside, using the superior traction.

44/70 Verstappen tries his best to go back past Leclerc, though the Ferrari attempts a defensive effort. The Red Bull if flying along again, that error seems to have done little damage.

43/70 Perez makes his final stop, and it’s a quick one. What state will Verstappen’s tyres be in? Good question.

Error from Verstappen!

42/70 Verstappen loses it, and Lelclerc comes past! The Red Bull slides in the chicane, and Leclerc overtakes him, and goes back into third. Russell takes advantage to surge past Perez. It’s all happening. Redemption for Ferrari?

Verstappen overtakes Leclerc!

41/70 Another Ferrari goof? Verstappen’s medium tyres overtake Leclerc in the hard-tyres.

40/70 Leclerc comes into the pits, goes on to the hard tyres. Russell comes into change and goes into his mediums. Sainz leads from Hamilton, Leclerc is third, on the hards. Intriguing choice. Perez is fourth, but soon to give way to Verstappen.

39/70 Verstappen is the first to pit of the leaders, and goes into sixth, behind Perez and Hamilton. The plan is to undercut Mercedes and Ferrari.

38/70 Here comes the rain, as Lando Norris warns his team. Vettel, the imminent retiree, goes 10th, ahead of Ocon.

37/70 Leclerc has 4.48 seconds on Russell, who is 1.2 seconds ahead of Sainz, who is 0.8 ahead of Verstappen, with Hamilton almost six seconds back.

36/70 Yuki Tsunoda’s crash suggested the chicane might be a bit slippery. Let’s see. Leclerc is staying well away, and his tyres are the youngest in the leaders.

35/70 A yellow flag, as Yuki Tsunoda takes a spin and drops to last place. He’s back of a race where nobody, at halfway, has dropped out.

34/70 Russell now being chased down by Sainz, with a gap of 0.6 seconds.

33/70 Hamilton is picking up pace. Verstappen was complaining about the rain, by the way, and a few drivers are worried by that. That would throw everything into flux.

32/70 Verstappen is having a moan. His garage acknowledges that, and lets him carry on as before.

Leclerc overtakes Russell and takes the lead!

31/70 Finally, the door opens, and Leclerc breaches Russell’s defences, going round the other side to before, and the Ferrari is ahead. Great driving from the both of them. Russell’s job now is to hold off Sainz and Verstappen.

30/70 Down that final straight, the DRS opens up again, and Russell continues to hold off his rival. Leclerc has the younger tyres, and may choose to bide his time.

29/70 Leclerc chases down Russell, and another gap opens, only to be closed up once more. Just five seconds between the top four, Hamilton dropping off that pace.

Leclerc takes on Russell for the lead!

28/70 Russell opens the door, and Leclerc seems to get through, but great defensive work from Russell closes the door again. That showed off Russell’s talent. Not this time.

Updated at 09.45 EDT

27/70 Russell seems to be losing a bit of time, and is perhaps struggling with his tyres, as seems to be Hamilton. Leclerc is ripping along, Sainz a buffer between him and Verstappen.

26/70 Leclerc is getting close to Russell, the gap now under a second, the spectre of DRS rising. Big test for the youngster.

25/70 Hamilton’s brakes locked, just as he was setting a fast opening sector. The Ferrari team are saying the race is “tough on the tyres”.

24/70 Leclerc sets a fastest lap, as Verstappen rages after Sainz. We may soon enough see a battle of Verstappen and Leclerc, as has been habitual this season. Then the Alpines of Ocon and Alonso get in a tangle, and in comes Ricciardo, reading their movement, and into tenth. There’s bad blood in the Alpine team.

23/70 Leclerc is warned by his team not to rag the balls out of his tyres. He’s the type of driver who requires such a warning.

22/70 Russell comes out ahead of Leclerc, but Leclerc will be racing ahead of Sainz. That’s a result of Leclerc’s speed and a rather botched pit for Sainz. Alonso has gone on the hard tyre, which gives everyone else a guide.

George Russell leads after his first pit stop. Photograph: Darko Bandić/AP

Updated at 09.37 EDT

21/70 Verstappen makes his way through the field, and goes fourth after breezing past the Alpine cars of Alonso and Ocon. Leclerc pits, and goes on to the mediums.

20/70 Hamilton goes in, and drops to seventh. Russell is second, and just Leclerc of the leaders to go in. Sainz and Leclerc looks to be the race to watch out for, later pitting permitting.

19/70 In comes Perez, from third, as Russell sets a fastest lap and goes to third. Leclerc is flying along up ahead, trying to stay away so he can pit and stay ahead. Verstappen is in seventh after his pit, and Perez is back in 10th. Red Bull have work to do.

18/70 Sainz’s pit is slow, and then Russell comes past Ocon and stays ahead of Sainz, with those ahead still to pit. Mercedes got lucky, their pit was slow.

17/70 Russell pits, and so does Verstappen. Russell comes back into the race in sixth, and stays ahead of Alonso before coming for Ocon next. Hamilton is up to third, but will surely pit soon, and Ferrari are soon to do the same.

16/70 Stephen Harris, presumably not of Iron Maiden, gets in touch: “It’s so refreshing to see so many drivers who can win and look at along this year im not anti Hamilton but his wins turned me off F1.”

It’s been a fine race so far, the first three so close, and now Hamilton and Verstappen chasing each other down.