Both Mercedes and Red Bull, who trail Ferrari in the standings, can at least point to a Grand Prix win this year. In response to a question about the Dutch Grand Prix, which follows the three-week August break, he said, "Hopefully I will be back, yeah." It was a race win that appeared to be tantalizingly possible -- until, very suddenly, it didn't. Lewis Hamilton sounded like a man defeated after Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, in which he finished a lowly 12th. Just a week earlier ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, Hamilton had been in a defiant, confident mood.