One of Hamilton’s best tracks

Along with Silverstone and Montreal, it’s fair to say the Hungaroring is one of Hamilton’s best circuits on the F1 calendar.

Hamilton took four of his eight wins in Hungary before his dominant Mercedes stint at McLaren, highlighting it wasn’t all about having the beꦚst car.

Hamilton is simply a Hungaroring-specialist.

Its tight and twisty nature has led to some compari꧒sons that it’s like a karting track.

In F1 2023, ღMercedes were disappointed by their pace at Silverstone given they dropped behind McLaren.

They’re stil𝓰l waiting to see🤪 if their revised front wing will find them gains in low-speed corners, with their best results this year (Australia, Spain) when the track characteristics have been more high-speed.

However, you can never rule ღHamilton out in Hungary.

Ricciardo’s comeback

The biggest talking point of the weekend is the return of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri.

The Australian is back after Red Bull ditched 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries after just 10 races.

Effectively, Ricciardo will have 12 races to prove he is truly🦋 back an♊d his stint at McLaren wasn’t representative.

Given the AlphaTauri is the slowest�🅘� car on the grid, combined with Yuki Tsunoda being in his year with the team, expecting Ricciardo to be performing at his best is unlikely.

However, if he’s got 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s Red Bull seat in his sights, he needs to pe🎃rform immediately to put even more pressure on the underperforming Mexican.

Can McLaren remain in the fight?

McLaren wereไ the stars of the British Grand Prix as they qualified second and third behind Verstappen on merit꧅.

Similarly in the race, had it not been for an untimely 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Safety Car in the race,168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Oscar Piastri would have joined 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris on the podium.

It was a remarkable turnaround for McLaren, who had scoꦕred zero poi🍸nts after the opening two rounds.

So are McLaren really back?

According to various telem⛄etry data from Silverstone, McLaren were the quickest in the ꧅high-speed corners.

Conversely, the Hungaroring is quite different in terms of track characteristics to Silverstone, and Austria, where McLaren also perfo🥀rmed well at.

Hungary is a true test to see whether McLaren are truly among the likes of Mercedes and Fꦺerrari from now on.

Will Alonso stop Aston’s recent blip?

After a stu🐈nning start to the year, Aston Martin have suffered somewhat of a blip 💯in recent rounds.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso scored five podiums in the opening six rounds, however, 💃he’s only🌱 scored one top three in the last four races.

Aston Martin have made it clear that their downturn in 🔯form is m🌃ore track dependent with high-speed circuits not particularly suiting their package.

However, Ferrari, Mercedes and🌺 McLaren have all heavily upgraded th❀eir cars during the European leg of the season which may explain Aston Martin’s lack of form relative to their rivals.

On paper, the tight and twisty Hungaroring will suit the AMR23, ꦬbut if it’s another disappointing weekend, then it’s clear th🍎at Aston Martin’s recent form is not just a blip.

A new qualifying format 

F1 will trial a new, experiential qualifying format at the Hungꦗaroring this weekend.

Dubbed as the ‘alternative tyre allocation’ - it will be run at two race weeken🐠ds - Hungary and Italy - this season.

In terms of the impact of the format, in theory, there should be more🐻 action in 🌺Q1 given that teams will be mandated to run the hard tyre.

It’s likely they will fill their cars with fuel and pound round on🍒 the hard tyre.

Similarly with Q2, while Q3 will likely be a normal session given they will be on the so🐻ft.