ricciardo won the on 27 july, ahead of alonso and lewis hamilton. he was in third place behind alonso and hamilton with less than four laps remaining and overtook hamilton's mercedes with a pass on the outside of the hungaroring's turn two. he then easily caught and passed alonso's ferrari as he had very little grip left on his tyres – television footage of his left front tyre after the race showed it to be badly blistered. in the final two laps, ricciardo pulled away to win the race by 5.225 seconds. his teammate vettel survived a spin coming onto the main straight late in the race to finish seventh. ricciardo became the second australian to win the hungarian grand prix, after mark webber's victory – also for red bull – in 2010. ricciardo then went on to score his third victory of his career to go back to back in belgium, become the first australian to win there since jack brabham in , also making him the only non-mercedes driver to have won a grand prix in 2014.