2025 Hungarian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
ROUND 14: 🇭🇺 Hungary
FORMULA 1 LENOVO HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1986
- Number of laps: 70
- Circuit Length: 4.381 km
- Race Distance: 306.63 km
- Lap record: 1:16.627 Lewis Hamilton (2020)
- 2024 winner: Oscar Piastri
84 replies
FIA investigating yet another incident after the race... Nothing worse than not knowing the results of a race when the race ends, if you're gonna give him a penno then just do it 😤
yeah I don't get it. To me that should have been a max giving back the pos penalty. seems odd to not clearing out on the spot.
They want to give the drivers a chance to talk to the stewards themselves
I hear that a lot, and I know I don't know what goes on behind closed doors in that office... But they didn't do the same for Leclerc with the George incident 🤷♂️
Hamilton didn’t even show up…
Nestle should sponsor Norris with how good he is at bottling
It's even funnier the twentieth time! Lap One Lando is really something else.
what lap one, just turn one even....Bottle master.
yeah it's painful to watch those start.
Slow burn race, thrilling end, and ENORMOUS props to McLaren for being the only team on the grid with the gumption and integrity to let their drivers scrap. Thank god for McLaren!
yes this is great to see the fight happening
Let’s go
P5 for the goat. still got it
Ferrari Drama.
Really wonder what the issue he's referring to could be.
yeah especially to be so verbose about
He is forced to manage fuel. Either they put too little fuel in (to counterbalance some other problem?) or the car is "eating" too much fuel.
Ah, underfueling without consulting him would do it. Sounds like that's what happened.
EDIT: "chassis issue" apparently?
Yeah and Russel mentioned something about tire pressure/chassis height
So it was a car chassis issue apparently
why did not you Tbone him... haha good one Russell. I love the cool down room chat.
That lock up cost piastri. Rare mistake from him. He should taken the normal line like he did on the last lap on lap 69 to try a setup a overtake on the last lap. Taking the regular racing line on the last lap, he was closer to Lando throughout the lap
At the same time, that mistake showed Piastri's greatness in not crashing into Norris there. Could have easily gone bad for both of them.
I don't know, maybe he should have setup for the attempt on lap 70 instead of 69, but being closer around the lap doesn't mean much around here where turn one is the only real overtaking spot. I understand why he went for it.
If he entered the main straight around 6 tenths behind, he can gain enough through drs and slipstream to get into a proper divebomb range. On the other hand what actually happened was after the lockup he was slightly further behind and entered the main straight on lap 70 seven tenths behind and too far back to get in place for divebomb.
Edit - I also get why he did it but it was a mistake nonetheless. Shows that as good as he has been, he is not perfect. We have a cracker of a championship battle on our hands
Who the hell is working with loud equipment during the anthem? 😂
yeah that was odd.
I assume the ambient sound microphone was too close to a mechanic
So the one-stop pays off on a track where you struggle to overtake? Who could have guessed?
It is not that simple. Usually tyre deg is so high that a single stop race is not possible. The temps were unusually low today and that meant deg was less and a one stop turned out to be the better strategy.
In the current era cars and tires it just often works out to be the case.
Not really. In all of 2022, 2023 and 2024 the two stop was way faster than the one stop.
I have to go back and look at the statistics but we've had a lot of one-stoppers the last two to three years. The two-stopper is almost always faster on paper but not always the best strategy, especially with all the dirty air.
I want to say it was 2023 that the one-stop trend started?
I am talking about hungary specifically. One stop is more popular in most tracks but hungaroring always has been two stops.
Ah my bad! Yeah, over the last couple of years we have seen more and more tracks that were traditionally a two-stopper end up with the one-stop being better.
Jesus Christ Leclerc what on earth was that defense
not Jesus Christ. you are supposed to say "mamma Mia"
Solid race by Russel to get the P3. Kudos by Mclaren to have different pit strategy for their driver and letting them fight the p1/p2. Ferrari with Leclerc there is something weird with all the frustration in the race. Alonso still got it with a P5.
That Alonso train 😂
The pinnacle of Motorsport!
yeah will be cool if it can get a podium.
I would love it, but it would need some strategy fuck up from Ferrari and Mercedes I think. He's been driving to secure P5 and I think that's smart, pretty much all there is on the table for him today.
Just for a moment :)
p5 will be great tbh
He still got it
Thanks!
Had me on the edge of my seat for those last few laps.
yeah me too it was a good one
I like the fuckoff attitude
Lol Lando's race engineer is more excited than Lando
Ouch imagine getting gravel thrown against your hands at this speed
They just showed the replay of it. Yikes that looked painful.
Very cryptic messages from Leclerc.. what do we think, is he talking about some secret setting Ferrari has activated on the car that Leclerc doesn't like?
I was thinking it's just the pit onto hards was taken without consulting him.
Possible, I'm thinking "I can feel what we talked about" would be a pretty weird phrasing if he is talking about the pitting strategy though
I do agree, but the only thing they can change under Parc Ferme is front wing angle. Can that have this much impact? I wouldn't say so but maybe?
I'll guess they put less fuel into the car than usual and Leclerc only noticed it halfway through the race
that's my take as well
Either McLarens crash or it's a banger
Got pretty damn close on that penultimate lap!
McLarens crashing would be a banger since it would mean a podium return for Padre!
almost in the lap 69
I feel for Leclerc. All that effort in the first half went to waste.
that must fuck his mindset that you got your energy and mindset on your team fuckup
Who is ready for some tire management
starting already. Piastri asking his hard tire to go to the end like last week
Tire choices look like many stops
Lando needs to work on his start. He's like a football player who cannot do penalties.
Halfway there
Wow Ferrari with a fantastic 2.0s stop for Leclerc.
not according to Leclerc
haha what was that pitting bluff from mclaren!
Piastri is such a great overtaker, that was slick.
Bottle Master for the win
I love Martin Brundle’s grid line walk. It makes you feel you are in it.
So Alonso in the top 3 ? ;)
What a takeover by Piastri on Leclerc. Very solid. Lap 50, that's really key now.
great move by Russel for the P3
Piastri is going to have it
Lando is a sitting duck
Unreal, what a finish.
yes drs is going to have it