Hungarian Grand Prix

The Mercedes driver was quicker than Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, while Championship leader Max Verstappen was 10th after losing power.

A technically challenging circuit with a preponderance of medium and slow-speed corners, the Hungaroring has to be managed with absolute precision. The Austrian GP was marred by accusations of sexist catcalling, inappropriate touching of female fans and homophobic and racist abuse, while social media has seen an increase in the often vitriolic and offensive discourse between fans of different drivers. As late as last night he and the team were still furiously searching for ways to bring it up to speed. “Yesterday was probably our toughest Friday of the whole season,” he said. His car has been down on pace all season and he had looked to be more than half a second back on the leaders at best. While Russell, the 24-year-old who is always careful to keep a tight rein on his emotions, was lit up with pleasure.

George Russell will start from pole position for the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix after topping qualifying. Here's how and when you can watch the race.

In the United Kingdom Channel 4 is broadcasting highlights of the Hungarian GP at 6:30pm BST on Sunday evening. Current weather forecasts predict cloudy and cool conditions at the Hungaroring in Budapest, with a low chance of rain. Will the F1 Hungarian GP be on the radio? Live streaming through NOW is also available in the UK. Sky Sports can also be accessed through NOW with a one-off day payment of £11.98p or a month membership of £33.99p per month. In the United Kingdom, Sky Sports will be live broadcasting the Hungarian GP, with the race shown live on Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports Main Event. Pre-race coverage will be starting on Sky Sports F1 at 12:30pm and Sky Sports Main Event at 1:55pm BST ahead of the race start at 2:00pm BST.

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"Congratulations to George, he did an amazing job and that is a great result for the team. We can win this." "We have just got to be fast. It would have been awesome to get a front row for the team but these things happen. "Yesterday was probably our toughest Friday of the whole season and we were all here until 11pm last night scratching our heads. I don't think I'll ever have qualifyings that will ever come close to these two feelings."

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“Both drivers came close to perfect, but both struggled in the final long corners. We obviously showed good pace in the wet, which was encouraging and enjoyable. It’s frustrating to make a mistake in the final corner with snap of oversteer on entry after a big tailwind. However, we’re still missing downforce from the package, so we know where we need to improve. “The wet conditions for FP3 were not unexpected and with the rain potentially lasting into Qualifying, we opted to run on both the full wet and the intermediate tyres in FP3. Nicky saw the positives from the day, especially in Free Practice: “After a positive FP3 in the wet, we had to reset the expectations for Qualifying with it being dry.”

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That all adds up to it being tougher to understand how the tyres will react and choose a strategy. Starting on the medium tyre, a more aggressive first stint would be possible before pitting for hards between Lap 20 and Lap 25. This one-stop is only predicted to be three to four seconds slower than the quickest two-stop strategy, showing how tempting it will be for teams to prioritise the lower number of pit stops. It’s still a long stint that drivers will have to manage on the hard and tyre wear could become a limiting factor if they are sliding around even more than on Friday, but despite the slower pace they are likely to be able to defend their position. The opportunity to make up positions would then be followed by a first stint of between 16-21 laps before switching to the medium compound tyre. The teams have been caught out a little bit this weekend after struggling with the hard compound, as it was sliding and wearing in hot conditions on Friday, making it comfortably slower than the medium and soft.

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It’s difficult to overtake here but we’ll be looking to capitalise on any opportunities that may come in the race tomorrow. I was looking to be on the cusp of Q2, but I missed the last corner quite bad. The wet conditions for FP3 were not unexpected and with the rain potentially lasting into Qualifying, we opted to run on both the full wet and the intermediate tyres in FP3. Both drivers were happy with their cars and were able to complete good, unhindered runs.

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Ricciardo was involved in a multiple car fight at the front involving Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel but given his experience and car – still in his first year at Red Bull – he appeared to be the outside bet. Late on the brakes and almost collecting Alonso into Turn 1, the Red Bull driver dived up the inside to grab the lead with three laps to go and cap a simply stunning grand prix. He pitted Schumacher again on lap 43 of 77, but short-fuelled the German’s car in a bid to gain track position on Coulthard. That level of self-control is rarely seen today, but it had to be relied upon in a car that he felt was never good enough to pull away. It had already been a notably unusual weekend as Schumacher and his title rival, Fernando Alonso, were starting well down the order after penalties for practice infringements. "I drove as slowly as possible, that's why the gap was never big," he told this writer in 2020 to commemorate the race's 30th anniversary. And in 1990, there was to be no denying poleman Thierry Boutsen, whose non-stop strategy defied the very best that Ayrton Senna could throw at him - but only just. Two tours later he was by Caffi and cutting the gap to the top four of Patrese, Senna, Gerhard Berger (Ferrari) and Alain Prost’s McLaren. Senna had to momentarily back off, Mansell kept coming and they briefly ran three abreast as the Ferrari swept into the lead. Two tours later, he braked around the outside of Senna, turned in absolutely sideways, somehow controlled the moment and accelerated away to victory. Senna stayed out much longer, nursing the Lotus’s rubber, and when he pitted he re-emerged in front. Piquet wasted little time in asserting himself over Mansell, and it soon became apparent that the Briton was struggling.

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- 20. Pierre Gasly will start in the pit lane. “Why I wake up every single day because feelings like this are something you can’t really dream of.” While Russell, the 24-year-old who is always careful to keep a tight rein on his emotions, was lit up with pleasure. Masi quit F1 last month to return home to Australia, and has now revealed the scale of abuse he has received. - 20. - 12. - 11. - 10. Having the two Ferrari’s around us means they can do as they please but I’m just going to be going as fast as I can. Here come the variables. Pierre Gasly drags from the pit lane, and there’s a virtual safety as Alex Albon hit Lance Stroll. Russell held Sainz off with a very defensive move, and now he must defend further.

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45 minutes to lights out: So it's Russell from the front today for the first time and he may be aided by the weather this afternoon as he goes for his maiden race win. Lap 29: Russell and Leclerc are locked in an enthralling battle for the lead of this race. Leclerc comes out of the pits on hard tyres much to everyones surprise and he's struggling to warm them up. After some staunch defence, Leclerc finally darts past Russell on the start/finish straight to move up into P1 in this race. Lap 49: Sainz is into the pits but it's a slow stop. Lap 56: Russell dives past Leclerc to take P2 and Ferrari respond by pitting Leclerc. Staggering stuff from the Italian team who seem to be in strategy disarray of late. Lap 61: Sainz is struggling with his traction out there and Hamilton is very close to getting DRS on the Ferrari driver. It seems inevitable that the Brit will past him to get back up into P3 as Ferrari seem to have pulled another strategy blunder with Leclerc. He could honestly win this race still as Verstappen has much older tyres on and will need to nurse them towards the end. Lap 68: The virtual safety car is back out as Bottas is forced to retire from this race with only two laps remaining. Lap 65: Hamilton is up into P2! It seems like Mercedes don't want to make the call so they allow their drivers to fight for position. Mercedes pair Hamilton and Russell complete the podium places as Ferrari fail to inspire yet again with some poor strategy calls.

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Russell soon found himself in the clutches of his team mate and now we had an intra-team battle for P2 at Mercedes, Hamilton getting a better exit from Turn 1 on Lap 65 and prying the place away – team boss Toto Wolff watching on from the Mercedes garage. Russell was right on the diffuser of Leclerc’s Ferrari in the fight for P3, and on Lap 54 he made the move for P2 with ease around the outside of Turn 1. At the penultimate corner, a puff of smoke signalled that all was not right as Verstappen got on the throttle and spun 360 degrees, putting him back behind Leclerc and allowing Russell a chance to overtake Verstappen at Turn 1. It was then that Verstappen broke the seal and went for an aggressive undercut strategy by pitting for another set of mediums, Leclerc reacting to pit for hards on Lap 40 and Russell changing to mediums a few seconds later. Hamilton decided to pit at the end of that tour, diving in for a set of softs and emerging fifth ahead of Perez. Sainz chose to take his second stop on Lap 48 for softs, but the tyre change was slow and saw him emerge fifth ahead of Perez – who had stopped five laps prior. Russell’s lead over Leclerc was dropping as the Monegasque driver turned up the pace and on Lap 27 the Ferrari was in DRS range of the Mercedes, having a look but declining not to pass into Turn 1. They say that when it rains, it pours, and Russell now had Sainz and Verstappen catching up to his rear wing – while numerous drivers began to report drizzle on their visors at the halfway mark. The lights went out to end the feverous anticipation, Russell holding off a charging Sainz, who tried to pry the lead around the outside of Turn 1 while Hamilton cleared the Alpines – Fernando Alonso baulking at Esteban Ocon squeezing him at Turn 1 – to go into fifth, Verstappen up to eighth and Perez ninth after Lap 1. Sainz took his stop on Lap 17 but it wasn’t ideal either and he was released between the Alpines in P6, with Alonso and Verstappen behind him. Russell led on soft tyres and pitted on Lap 15, soft-shod Verstappen pitting from P5 a lap later to force Carlos Sainz to pit from the lead. Alonso exclaimed that he was “much faster” than Ocon but on Lap 5 the two-time champion ran wide at Turn 3 and Verstappen swept by for P7.

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Instead, he leaves Budapest with his title hopes hanging from the most slender of threads and Mercedes closing in on Ferrari in the constructors’ standings. “We would have had the pace to win if we hadn’t had that DRS issue,” the Briton told his team over the radio after taking the chequered flag and banking an extra point for fastest lap. The win was Verstappen’s eighth of the season and 28th of his career.

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Meanwhile, Verstappen was able to storm home on the medium tyre but had his own drama when he spun on a slippery part of the surface. Leclerc was leading at half-distance and was the fastest on track, but was forced to go onto the hard compound tyre during his second stop after starting on the mediums. Ricciardo had provided one of the highlights of the race on lap 24 with a double-overtake of the Alpine drivers Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon.

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3rd row Esteban Ocon (FRA/Alpine-Renault) Fernando Alonso (ESP/Alpine-Renault) Front row George Russell (GBR/Mercedes) Carlos Sainz (ESP/Ferrari) “Why I wake up every single day because feelings like this are something you can’t really dream of.”

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And the Frenchman will be set for a long afternoon’s work at the famously hard-to-overtake-at Hungaroring. Gasly to start Hungarian Grand Prix from pit lane as Red Bull drivers take on new power units But while Gasly’s changes would ordinarily require a back-of-the-grid start, according to the stewards: “All the PU components for Pierre Gasly have been replaced without the approval of the FIA technical delegate and this is not in accordance with Article 40.3 of the 2022 Formula One Sporting Regulations. Therefore car number 10 should now be required to start the Race from the pit lane according to Article 40.9 b) of the 2022 Formula One Sporting Regulations.”

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But the reigning world champion kept his composure and got the job done, winning his eighth race of the season and 28th of his career. Rain also started falling on the track with a couple of minutes remaining, meaning Verstappen had to tip-toe his way towards the finish line. The Australian, who started ninth on the grid, was down in 12th following an early pit stop, but managed to swoop past both Alpine drivers in a matter of seconds on Lap 24. The Canadian spun around and Ricciardo was handed a five-second penalty for causing a collision. The McLaren driver was on track for a potential points finish before a collision with Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll on Lap 48 ruined his race. Despite starting in 10th position on the starting grid and spinning on Lap 40, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his eighth race of the season to extend his lead in the drivers’ standings ahead of the mid-season.

Red Bull driver took victory at the Hungaroring, with Lewis Hamilton second and Charles Leclerc a distant sixth.

Leclerc was as perplexed as the rest of us as to why the team chose the hard tyres and bemoaned Ferrari’s failings. Ferrari were forced to pit him again for soft tyres but the damage was done and he emerged in sixth, from which he could not come back. We had a few overtakes, we pitted at the right time and put the right tyres on the car. Sainz and Leclerc had started in second and third, the race surely theirs to dictate. Verstappen’s touch and judgment in coming through the field was unquestionable and Red Bull’s race management and strategy calls were executed to perfection. What had begun with the expectation of damage limitation led to an immense run from 10th on the grid as he and his Red Bull team pulled off an absolute coup.

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