Mercedes teammate, Nico Rosberg came 8th after a late puncture. Lewis Hamilton extends his lead over Rosberg to 21 points in this season's world championship with these results.
Red Bulls Daniil Kvyat came second being his first career podium while Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo came third.
Sebastian Vettel had a fantastic/classic run from start to finish as he got the jump on both Mercedes drivers, Hamilton and Rosberg and fought off Hamilton to take the lead right from the first corner.
Teammate Kimi Raikkonen passed Rosberg in turn two for the second place as Hamilton dropped back to fourth place.
Hamilton made a mistake at the Chicane midway around the track and ran wide dropping further to 6th position.
As both Sebastian and Kimi kept the lead and Rosberg was unable to keep pace, Hamilton set to recover lost ground and Hamilton overtook William's Felipe Massa, Force India's Sergio Perez and after first pit stops Red Bull's Ricciardo.
Hamilton set about closing the gap to Rosberg and had reduced it to 5 seconds when a dramatic incident brought out the safefty car on tap 43 with 26 laps to go.
Hamilton slid into the side of Red Bull Ricciardo's car breaking his front wing and damaging Ricciardo's bodywork.
Hamilton hung on with the damaged part for a couple of laps but had to pit for a replacement .
Hamilton had to serve a drive through penalty for causing the collision. He rejoined in 12th place with a lot of apology to his Mercedes team saying over the radio, "I'm so sorry guys, I'm really sorry".
His engineer, Peter Bonnington asked him to get his head down and get some points which he doggedly did as he passed other drivers to place 6th.
Raikkonen sadly lost his second place as his engine suffered a hybrid system failure, dropping him down the field and eventually led to retirement.
Vettel dedicated his win to Jules Bianchi, so did Daniil Kvyat and Daniel Ricciardo.
4 cars were retired in Hungarian Grand Prix. It was one of the most exciting races ever as no one was certain of what was going to happen.
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