2026 Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungaroring, July 24 - 26

[FrukostScones]

One Monaco is hard enough to cope with, why have a second one? But Zandvoort will be boring too as well as Singapore

WTF?
Budapest is great and was always great. Also good production today. Turn one, two three is always fun. Best Action!

[venkyhere]

One Monaco is hard enough to cope with, why have a second one? But Zandvoort will be boring too as well as Singapore

I fully support the fact that Monaco is the horriblest track on the calender. No width to accommodate two cars racing each other, and terribly 'stop-start' by nature.
However, Hungary is a very 'flowy' track, enough width for side-by-side racing action, and very technical in nature, in terms of driving. This track is a purists' delight.

[gearboxtrouble]

All of those tracks are better than Qatar. It shouldn't even be on the calendar because its not up to F1 standards. Its a motogp track with no overtaking opportunities, unsafe kerbing and an abrasive surface that forces cars into capped stint lengths. Monaco at least has the best qualifying of the season and Hungary, Singapore and Zandvoort have some passing opportunities and at least create strategy tension every year. Money talks in modern F1 and Qatar being on the calendar is the clearest signal of what matters.

[michl420]

The soft was good on the ferraris in the beginning and good for VES at end. I expected actually that most start on soft and/or drive a good part of the race with it.

[Artur Craft]

One Monaco is hard enough to cope with, why have a second one? But Zandvoort will be boring too as well as Singapore

I fully support the fact that Monaco is the horriblest track on the calender. No width to accommodate two cars racing each other, and terribly 'stop-start' by nature.
However, Hungary is a very 'flowy' track, enough width for side-by-side racing action, and very technical in nature, in terms of driving. This track is a purists' delight.

I like to drive around both, Hungary and Monaco, that´s not my issue with them. It´s just that the racing is very restricted on both (sure, Monaco is way worse but Hungaroring is also very boring). In China, we had similarly paced cars battling each other like the Ferraris(even if it was fake yoyo racing), here, Norris was a lot quicker than Oscar and could not attempt a move. Unless you´re miles faster, like 2-3s faster like Norris was against Antonelli by the end, it´s very hard to even attempt an overtake. And mind you, Norris had the energy advantadge thing and still had to divebomb into T1. Not good racing imo

[maxxer]

One Monaco is hard enough to cope with, why have a second one? But Zandvoort will be boring too as well as Singapore

I like to drive around both, Hungary and Monaco, that´s not my issue with them. It´s just that the racing is very restricted on both (sure, Monaco is way worse but Hungaroring is also very boring). In China, we had similarly paced cars battling each other like the Ferraris(even if it was fake yoyo racing), here, Norris was a lot quicker than Oscar and could not attempt a move. Unless you´re miles faster, like 2-3s faster like Norris was against Antonelli by the end, it´s very hard to even attempt an overtake. And mind you, Norris had the energy advantadge thing and still had to divebomb into T1. Not good racing imo

Well even in the days before we had these duracell cars it was known as a mickey mouse circuit.
After reading your comment i checked the schedule and noticed there is no grand prix in germany even where they have 2 amazing tracks even the one in portugal is better. There should be a GP of europe again which is every year on a different european track.

[CHT]

Was RedBull lucky with that strategy or did they work the statistics there?

The last call on soft was totally unexpected and decision to not pit during VSC was brilliant too. I guess cooling condition may have helped to keep the tires alive

Alonso had already done a 33 lap stint on softs, so they had at least some indication

Alonso did 33 laps at a much slower pace and for RBR completing the race is not an issue, only question is if Max will be fast enough to keep 3rd place (before Oscar's requirement).

[BMMR61]

Against the odds and predictions, Hungary produced an intriguing race with lots of peculiarities. The Ferraris couldn't get the hards to work. The softs didn't degrade badly - Verstappen wasn't the only won who brought them home, so did Lawson who (comparatively) flew home. The mediums were just meh - not fast and didn't last that well. And Lewis seemed to dictate Ferrari strategy on the fly if I'm not mistaken, anyway it didn't work well for them.

[venkyhere]

This race is getting a lot of flak in this race thread - 'boring' / 'Monaco without walls' etc etc. I thought it was a brilliant race, there was a point when the entire lead group was in a train, behind Hadjar for a lap and a half. This idea that 'more overtakes = better racing' is naive, and for some of us who were watching, it was the best race of the year - no safety cars to nullify built up gaps (just a small VSC), and hence no 'lucky break' for anyone. It was pure racing. Apart from P1, no position was guaranteed until the last 3-4 laps.

[bluechris]

This race is getting a lot of flak in this race thread - 'boring' / 'Monaco without walls' etc etc. I thought it was a brilliant race, there was a point when the entire lead group was in a train, behind Hadjar for a lap and a half. This idea that 'more overtakes = better racing' is naive, and for some of us who were watching, it was the best race of the year - no safety cars to nullify built up gaps (just a small VSC), and hence no 'lucky break' for anyone. It was pure racing. Apart from P1, no position was guaranteed until the last 3-4 laps.

I agree totally, very good race indeed.

[Badger]

Sainz with his usual radio antics. Should’ve been a harsher penalty than 5s.

[FittingMechanics]

This race is getting a lot of flak in this race thread - 'boring' / 'Monaco without walls' etc etc. I thought it was a brilliant race, there was a point when the entire lead group was in a train, behind Hadjar for a lap and a half. This idea that 'more overtakes = better racing' is naive, and for some of us who were watching, it was the best race of the year - no safety cars to nullify built up gaps (just a small VSC), and hence no 'lucky break' for anyone. It was pure racing. Apart from P1, no position was guaranteed until the last 3-4 laps.

I think the race was good, interesting strategy wise, could have had a very interesting on track battle if Sainz didn't crash into Piastri. Overall good F1 race.

I do think that the race was influenced a lot by the issues with blue flag system which meant lapped cars caused issues. I am convinced it would be worth to test out what would happen without blue flags but the problem is that Red Bull has a second team and would have an advantage.

[chrisc90]

Problem is, the RB’s probably held Max up more than the others.

Lawson let Lewis through easily at the last turn.

They were battling it out for a lap and a half ahead of max before he got through

[Artur Craft]

This race is getting a lot of flak in this race thread - 'boring' / 'Monaco without walls' etc etc. I thought it was a brilliant race, there was a point when the entire lead group was in a train, behind Hadjar for a lap and a half. This idea that 'more overtakes = better racing' is naive, and for some of us who were watching, it was the best race of the year - no safety cars to nullify built up gaps (just a small VSC), and hence no 'lucky break' for anyone. It was pure racing. Apart from P1, no position was guaranteed until the last 3-4 laps.

I started following the race from lap 28 onwards, so I have no idea of what you said. When I turned on, I just saw Norris stuck behind Piastri and Leclerc asking Ferrari to let him past. I saw Max´s overtake on youtube, I guess that elated some viewers more than the usual.

F1 is pathetic with their penalties. I swear I would have banned Sainz for at least a race for completely ignoring blue flags and crashing into the potential race leader. 5s is nothing, ridiculous!

[FrukostScones]

This race is getting a lot of flak in this race thread - 'boring' / 'Monaco without walls' etc etc. I thought it was a brilliant race, there was a point when the entire lead group was in a train, behind Hadjar for a lap and a half. This idea that 'more overtakes = better racing' is naive, and for some of us who were watching, it was the best race of the year - no safety cars to nullify built up gaps (just a small VSC), and hence no 'lucky break' for anyone. It was pure racing. Apart from P1, no position was guaranteed until the last 3-4 laps.

I started following the race from lap 28 onwards, so I have no idea of what you said. When I turned on, I just saw Norris stuck behind Piastri and Leclerc asking Ferrari to let him past. I saw Max´s overtake on youtube, I guess that elated some viewers more than the usual.

F1 is pathetic with their penalties. I swear I would have banned Sainz for at least a race for completely ignoring blue flags and crashing into the potential race leader. 5s is nothing, ridiculous!

that explains a lot : ) btw: this is a non tolerable behavior for a member.