2023 Hungarian Grand Prix | Race
It's nearly time for lights out!
Will Lewis be able to fend of Max? Can the McLarens move forward? Will the Alfas manage to stay high up the order, and can Danny Ric score points on his return to Formula 1?
Find out all this and more, next time on Dragon Ball Z!
For a first race back having being taken out in T1, Ricciardo has done a wicked job here. Tsunoda obviously not had the best race of the year, but he's 10s behind right now.
Alpine having a nightmare.
Ouch
Zhou bowling! Strike!
Piastri is so impressive. One to watch out for. McLaren can let Lando go and still have a top driver now
I'd be starting to think about picking up Piastri over Norris at this point. It's his rookie year and he's on a very similar race pace as Norris, maybe not got the ultimate quali pace yet. Norris took over a year to look this close to Sainz, and never consistantly beat him. He's only going to get better and the McLaren is notoriously unbalanced so he can handle an imperfect car. He's probably cheaper and not on as long a contract. Norris is still the better of the two at the moment but I wonder if he will be for long.
What happened regarding the first pit stop though? Piastri's stop was faster than Norris', but this Norris managed to undercut him. Are they on different strategies?
Undercutting your own teammate is bound to raise questions. Hopefully we get answers after the race.
Also a slow stop for Piastri. He's being robbed of a podium for a second time.
Afterwards he was pretty off the pace He was consistently slower than Noris. At first I thought he just had slow targets, maybe he had tire management issues, I have no idea.
Does piastri have some sort of damage. His pace has dropped like a stone in the 2nd and 3rd stint
Emotional damage from his teammate getting the preferred pitstop?
Update: Apparently there was a broken floor issue. Don’t know how, didn’t see him make any contacts. PIA better hope he does not inherit HUL luck.
Yeah he went from matching Lando to becoming 7 tenths slower. Only damage can explain that.
Must have been like Hamilton in austria in 2021 where the his wing was damaged due to a kerb. Considering how low the floors are, he must hit the kerb at the chicane
Very big gains and losses on lap 1. Good for Ferrari and McLaren, mixed bag for Merc, Alfa and Alpine the big losers.
McLaren's pace seems legit, which is cool, and fast corners at Spa should suit them even more than Hungaroring. Good job to the Woking boys.
Aston Martin and Ferrari should have been better here, so a middling performance behind Merc and McLaren doesn't look good. Maybe just putting all their eggs in to next year's basket?
Mercedes looked back to their usual performance levels after a great qualifying lap from Hamilton yesterday
Alpine is such a disaster of a team, I want to like Enstone like I did in the 2000s with Alonso and early 10s with Raikkonen, but they're just tragic. Today wasn't even their fault, but it's such an Alpine thing to happen.
Perez was better today, especially on a track that's hard to pass, but Ricciardo looked like he has a bit of a spark back. With Verstappen running away with every race I can't deny that I wouldn't mind giving Daniel a shot in the RBR at this point. Anything to make the battle for the lead a little bit different.
Great Quali pace from Alfa Romeo turned in to a typically pointless race result. While the Ferraris, Perez, Russell and Alonso were likely to get by, Albon in the Williams should definetely not have finished ahead of them. Considering the money Audi is starting to invest in the team I hope they begin to see more results.
If RIC to RBR is going to happen, I hope it's at the start of next year. I'd like to see RIC have some time in the less mega car to get a bit more of his sea legs back before he's judged next to VER.
I was struck today by Perez compared to his great drives in the Racing Point. I just kind of wondered what ALO would have done in the Pink Mercedes year. I'm rambling.
Fucking Ferrari! The car is shit, the strategists are shittier and now the drivers are fucking up.
Why am I supporting this team?
Well, masochism is a thing. So, whatever floats your boat. ;-)
Alpine... sheesh.
How much damage is RIC carrying? Been at the bottom since the lap 1 incident.
It's also his first race back in a car that has done poorly all season
True
FFS, Alpine.
I love the optimism, Sky, but there's no way Hamilton catches Perez from 1.7 seconds behind in one lap.
SAI getting ahead of LEC in the most Ferrari way possible.
NOR undercutting PIA is going to raise some eyebrows.
RB 1.9s pit stop?
Zhou got a late start and went bowling instead.
They swapped straight to the podium positions and started the circular procession.
Most significant was Renault-domino (I'm going to ignore the Alpine brand for the rhyme): Zhou bumped into Ricciardo, who bumped into an Alpine, who bumped into an Alpine.
Leclerc, c'mon. You don't have to make it even harder
Ferrari's resident strategist Sainz at it again.
HAM defending PER might give us a McLaren double podium.
I hope so!
Oh how I've missed Alonso defending here haha
Oh my god, Ocon and Gasly that's terrible
I just laughed because I noticed Verstappen could pit again and still get back on track in first position.
Zhou had the worst start possible, ending 4 promising races. Lewis also got caught out.
What a quick end to a lot of potential fun :(
Did HAM get wheelspin? Yesterday they were saying the side Max was on would be dusty and would have relatively worse start.
Ferrari strategists having another brain fart. Car with potentially faster tyres is stuck behind his teammate:
Ferrari self destructing again?
As is tradition.
Well guys, Hungary was fun, see you in Spa.
Unless something drastic changes, I guess it will be VER-PER-NOR
5 seconds for double DNFing Alpine 😂
Max v Lewis still spicy as ever
Let's see if this was worth waking up for...
I'm just stoked to see races where there is some competition! This one's shaping up to be a good one!
Hoping to see a clean first lap. Would be great to see Norris get a good start even for a few laps.
Ooh how long has there been a sort by new / chat button?
Woke up late and missed the first few laps. Dammit.
Super sucky for Alpine. Their third double DNF after Australia and Silverstone.
Thats rough going for them
Lots of early stoppers. Going to be a mix of 2 stoppers and 3 stoppers.
Oh Sharl!
What an oddly slow start for the front group.
Nooo Lewis!
No Ferrari no
Wow potential fireworks at McLaren
TSU looks like he will be best of the rest again today. Most of it was keeping it clean while others stumbled.
Ferrari doing Ferrari things
Isn’t PER stop illegal? I thought it had to be a 2 second minimum now.
Toto is mailing as we speak.
ROFL
Is it so? Didn't knew there was an overall minimum time. Only that some actions can't happen faster than 0.2 seconds (reaction time)
This is true. The reason why people thought that sub 2s times were impossible was because with the 1.83s pitstop red bull had in interlagos 2019, we were already approaching limits as to how fast tyres could be changed. So adding around 0.2 seconds to that time it seemed sub 2s would no longer be possible. Red bull seemed to have found a way to improve anyway and hence the 1.9
If a race ever needed a safety car to spice things up, it’s this one. Where are you Maldonado?
Zhou tried his best.
Can we make Max drive on 3 tyres? Sounds like he needs a challenge.
That mercedes looked like it was carrying at least 10 kg more fuel in the beginning than the rest. Was slow to get to the pace, was slow in turning. Looked a hefty beast rather than a nimble car.
What was Lewis' radio message? I want to hear that not this anus Horner.
Asking how he is so far back from the McLarens.