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 be🌊st car.

Hamilton is simply a Hungaroring-specialist.

Its tight and twisty nature has led t🎃o some comparisons that it’s like a karting tra👍ck.

In F1 2023, Mercedes were disappointed by their pace at Silversไtone given they dropped bꦡehind McLaren.

They’re still waiting to see if their revised front wing will find them gains in low-speed corners, with th🦋eir best results this year (Australia, Spain) when the t♌rack characteristics have been more high-speed.

However, you can never rule Hamilton o꧅ut in Hungary.

Ricciardo’s comeback

The biggest talking point of the weekend is the return of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri.

The Australian is back after Red Bull ditched 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nyck de Vries after just 10 races.

Effectivel🦋y, Ricciardo will have 12 races to pඣrove he is truly back and his stint at McLaren wasn’t representative.

Given the AlphaTauri is the slowest car on thඣe 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5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez’s Red Bull seat🅠 in his sights, he needs to perform immediately to put even more pressure on t💧he underperforming Mexican.

Can McLaren remain in the fight?

McLaren were the stars of the British Grand Prix as they qualiꩵfied second and third behind Verstappen on merit.

Similarly in the race, had it not been for an untimely 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car in the race,168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Oscar Piastri would have joined 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris on the podium.

It was a remarkable turnaround for McLaren, who had scored zero points after the opening two round꧒s.

So are McLaren really back?

According to various telemetry data from Silverstone, McLaꦏren we💛re the quickest in the high-speed corners.

Conversely, the Hungaroring is quite d💧ifferent in terms of track characteristics to Silverstone, aꦦnd Austria, where McLaren also performed well at.

Hun꧅gary is a tr🎃ue test to see whether McLaren are truly among the likes of Mercedes and Ferrari from now on.

Will Alonso stop Aston’s recent blip?

After a stunning start to the year, Aston Martin have suffered somewhat of a blip 𒀰in🎃 recent rounds.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso scored five podiums in the opening six rounds, however, he’s only scored one top three inꦅ the l🐼ast four races.

Aston Martin have made it clear that their downturn in form is more track dependent with hꦬigh-speed circuits not particularly suiting their package.

However, Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren have all heavily upgraded their 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, but if it’s another disappointing⛦ weekend, then it’s clear that🐬 Aston Martin’s recent form is not just a blip.

A new qualifying format 

F1 will trial a new, experiential qualifying format at the Hunga🎃roring this weekend.

Dubbed as the ‘alternative tyre allocation’ - it will be run at two race weekends - Hungary and Italy 👍- this seaso𝓡n.

𒀰In terms of the impact of the format, in theory, there should be morꦑe 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 soft.