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.

Hami🅷lton took four of his eight wins in Hungary before his 🥂dominant Mercedes stint at McLaren, highlighting it wasn’t all about having the best car.

Hamilton is simply a Hungaroring-specialist.

Its tight and twisty natu♏re has led to some comparisons that it’s like a kꦿarting track.

In F1 2023, Mercedes were disappointed by their pace at Silverstone ꦰgiven they dropped be🌠hind McLaren.

They’re still waiting to see if their revised f🅷ront 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 Hamilton out in Hꦑ♕ungary.

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 p𒁃rove he is truly back and his stint at McLaren wasn’t rep🉐resentative.

Given the AlphaTauri is the slowest car on the grid, combined wi🌠th 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 perform immediately to put even more pressure🎶 on the underperforming Mexican.

Can McLaren remain in the fight?

McLaren were the stars of the British Grand Prix as they qualified second and third behind Verstapꦿpen ℱon 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 scored zero points after the opening two rounds.

So are McLaren really back?

According to various telemetry data from Silverstone, McLaren were 🌟the quickest in the high-speed corners.

Con🔴versely, the Hungaroring is quite different in terms of track characteristics to Silverstone, and Austria, where McLaren also performed well at.

H♍ungary is a true test to see whether McLaren are truly among the likes of Mercedes and Ferra♎ri from now on.

Will Alonso stop Aston’s recent blip?

After aಌ stunning start to the year, Aston Martin have suffered somewhat of a ౠblip in recent rounds.

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

Aston M🅺artin have made it clear that their downturn in form﷽ is more track dependent with high-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 wi🍌ll 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 t🌠rial a new, experiential qualifying forma🌜t at the Hungaroring this weekend.

Dubbed as the ‘alternative tyre allocation’ - it will be run at two race weekends - Hungary and I🗹taly - this season.

In terms o꧂f 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 harཧd tyre.

Similarly with Q2, whi🦩le Q3 will likely be a normal sess▨ion given they will be on the soft.