Michelin beat Bridgestone hands-down in Hungary.

Michelin enjoyed a return to prominence in the Hungarian Grand Prix, with a resounding top five lockout after their wet weather tyres performed much better than those on their Bridgestone-shod rivals.

Michelin have been recently attributed to being the reason why Renault have lost their advantage over Ferrari in recent races, but when the heavens opened prior to the race, it was clear early on which tyre was working better in the wet conditions.

Indeed, with the eventual top five consisting of Jenson Button, Pedro de la Rosa, Nick Heidfeld, Rubens Barrichello and David Coulthard, Michelin's tyres were giving lesser fancied names a chance to star, with most of the teams branding the Michelin tyre as 'fantastic'.

"Michelin did a fantastic job throughout the weekend," Honda's Nick Fry said. "On dry tyres we were very quick in qualifying and our wets lasted brilliantly as the race wore on. The dries proved to be equally good when we put them on towards the end. It would have been easy to make a mistake in these conditions, but at end of day we won - and that's the main thing."

However, while Michelin clearly had the upper hand in the wet conditions, it was still apparent that when the track had produced a dry line the Bridgestone's would come into their own. As a result, the fastest lap would eventually fall to Felipe Massa's Ferrari in the dying laps as he found his range in the optimum conditions.

Nonetheless, Nick Shorrock was delighted with their clear advantage in the wet, particularly as Bridgestone have traditionally been attributed as having the stronger package on a slippery surface.

"Where to start? Our 101st grand prix success might have been convincing, but this has been a very tough weekend. Track conditions have been very testing and this morning's rain made things worse," he concluded.

"Most of our drivers started the race on intermediate tyres and it was immediately apparent that they offered our partners a clear performance advantage. Our teams were obliged to look after their tyres very carefully as the track dried but, again, the inters held up very well and continued to perform strongly.

"Switching to dries was obviously a critical moment in the race, but we had no worries at all and our partners continued to post competitive lap times as the race drew towards its closing stages. I'd like to compliment Jenson on spearheading a Michelin clean sweep of the top five - a fantastic tribute to the hard work we did with our partners during the build-up to the race.

"It's a shame that Renault was unable to obtain the result its excellent performance merited, but the team still leads both world championships and I'm confident that we will continue to defend these effectively together."