Hungarian Grand Prix – Race
After yesterday’s Qualifying, the provisional grid was: SV, LH, JB, FM, FA, MW, NR, AS, MS, SP, PD, VP, KK, NH, RB, JA, PM, [SB*] HK, JT, TG, VL, DR, SB, JD.
*SB’s 5 grid spot penalty from Germany drops him to P23.
It’s raining at the Hungaroring – looks like most people will start on intermediate tyres but same may be on full wets
There’s almost no standing water, so they won’t start behind the Safety Car
Mechanics clear the grid; looks like inters all round
SV leads everyone away on the formation lap
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Hungarian Grand Prix – Qualifying
SV was fastest in final practice (Free Practice 3) but LH was was fastest in FP1 and FP2.
Air temperature 22°C; track 30°C; wind 8.9m/s; humidity 48%
Qualifying 1:
DR is first on track, followed by HRT teammate VL – both are on super-soft (option) tyres
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Hungarian Grand Prix – Practice
It’s a weekend full of anniversaries: it’s the 850th Grand Prix of all time; it’s Jenson Button’s 200th Grand Prix*; it’s 25 years since the first F1 race behind the Iron Curtain (which was at this circuit); it’s Fernando Alonso’s 30th birthday on Friday; it’s 2 years since Filipe Massa’s accident (when a spring came off Barrichello’s car and penetrated FM’s helmet!).
*BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter Jennie Gow: “I was talking to Jenson Button and he said his dad lacks commitment when it comes to attending races. This is Button’s 200th race and his dad has only been to 199 of them.” [source:BBC]
Tyre compounds this weekend = soft (yellow band) and super-soft (red).
There’s obviously a lot of (mostly unhappy) chatter about Sky Sports winning the rights to show F1 in UK from 2012 to 2018; BBC will only show half the races live. I wonder what that means for TSN because they use the BBC feed?
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