It is, incredibly, race week yet again. Exhausting! The F1 wagons have been loaded up and presumably carefully sprayed with Dettol before trundling on to the Hungaroring. It's another sign that the rhythms of the F1 season are out of whack, because in recent history, the Hungarian GP is the last race before the summer break. It's also often been the one where stuff happens off track. Maybe teams and drivers have too much of an eye on their holidays? Who knows why, but it was here in 2007 that Lewis Hamilton lit the match that metaphorically burned down Ron's house, here where Fernando Alonso casually told the press he'd like a better car for his birthday, causing Luca to denounce his own driver in the in-house company magazine and it will be here where we will probably learn if Racing Point get done for copying Mercedes and if so, what happens next.
As far as on track action goes, the track's record for exciting races is a bit uneven. Long regarded as a track where overtaking is difficult, it had accordingly produced years of polesitter takes all races, then had a bit of an exciting period, but I seem to remember the last few have been kind of dull again. Still, live sport means you never know, do you? Very likely to see safety car here at some point, and which has often had very dramatic effects on this track. Lewis has won loads of times around here, often accompanied on the podium by Kimi for some odd reason.
The track, via F1.com:
Almost universally compared to a karting track, you can see why.
I forgot who won last year, I see from the stats page that Hamilton did. See? Wins a lot. I'm always mildly concerned he will drop one of those startling Hungarian GP trophies and it will smash on the ground.
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