F1 2026: Hungarian GP - Hungaroring (July 26)

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2025:

(source: HERE)

Schedule:
https://www.formula1.com/en/racing/2026/hungary
(Start times adjusts automatically to your local time/date depending on your browsers/internet settings)

Circuit:
Hungaroring



Circuit stats:
First Grand Prix: 1986
Number of Laps: 70
Circuit Length: 4.381 km
Race Distance: 306.63 km
Lap Record: 1:16.627 (Lewis Hamilton 2020)

Onboard Lap:
(2025 Charles Leclerc pole lap)
2025 thread:
F1 2025: Hungarian GP - Hungaroring (Aug 3)

Wikipedia 2025 GP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Hungarian_Grand_Prix

2025 race highlights:
2025 Lollipopman Comics:

So what are your predictions?
The Hungaroring is a very different track to the previous races on Spa and Silverstone. It is shorter and less energy deprived. This should give less of an advantage for the Mercedes PU. However, the rest of that car is also very quick.
I expect to see a pretty intense and challenging race. Lets hope for not too many crashes and technical DNF's


This is my prediction:

1. ANT
2. VER
3. HAM
4. LEC
5. RUS
6. NOR
7. HAD
8. PIA
9. LIN
10. GAS

For people who don't place predictions: please refrain from giving negative comments after the race on predictions other members have given. Nobody makes perfect predictions, hindsight is always 20/20 and if you don't make predictions yourself, you're not showing you know better.

Friday (July 24): Dry with sunny intervals and daytime highs around 24°C.
Saturday (July 25): Warmer and mostly clear with temperatures reaching 27°C during the qualifying sessions.
Sunday (July 26): Hot and sunny with highs near 30°C to 32°C for the 70-lap race. Track temperatures are expected to exceed 45°C during the race start at 15:00 local time.

I’m thinking this will be a good track for Ferrari so here’s my picks.

1. LEC
2. ANT
3. HAM
4. MAX
5. NOR

Hard to tell where George will finish, should be in the top five but who knows.

GOOO Ferrari

An exciting weekend. The v2 Aston AMR 26 is being debuted. Not with the Honda upgrades as I believe they will debut in Zandfort. This weekend is chassis and a big drop in weight. They are the first upgrades to the car this season.

Here is a pic with my AMR 18. The first AMR
Yes. I’m a fan and this season has been miserable so far. So I live in hope.

Apparently McLaren are bringing big upgrades to the MCL40. Hopefully the upgrades are Oscar friendly.

Never surrender despite telling odds.

1. MAX
2. HAD
3. LEC
4. LEW
5. RUS
6. LAW
7. NOR
8. PIA
9. ALO
10. Checo

Doesn't the narration in this YouTube video sound like an AI generated Martin Brundle?

I'm about sick of ALL this AI bull$hit. ALL OF IT!!!

Killed by Death wrote

Doesn't the narration in this YouTube video sound like an AI generated Martin Brundle?

I'm about sick of ALL this AI bull$hit. ALL OF IT!!!

Then why are you propagating it?
Again... and again....

afadeev wrote

Killed by Death wrote

Doesn't the narration in this YouTube video sound like an AI generated Martin Brundle?

I'm about sick of ALL this AI bull$hit. ALL OF IT!!!

Then why are you propagating it?
Again... and again....

Not propagating, 99% sure it's AI...Just asking a question...Hence the ? mark.

Again and again? What does that mean?

M5Rick wrote

Never surrender despite telling odds.

1. MAX
2. HAD
3. LEC
4. LEW
5. RUS
6. LAW
7. NOR
8. PIA
9. ALO
10. Checo

The 2021 Hungarian GP

Bottas threw a very heavy bowling ball (!)

https://twitter.com/i/status/2079939851252859035

Sorry, I'm a bad person

You can't argue with Science:
Kimi Antonelli for the win on Sunday

Car-Addicted wrote

You can't argue with Science:
Kimi Antonelli for the win on Sunday

Can only hope she is wrong on this occasion

Car-Addicted wrote

You can't argue with Science:
Kimi Antonelli for the win on Sunday

Blonde, Cute, Nice Rack...She needs to be posing with LEC

Killed by Death wrote

Blonde, Cute, Nice Rack...She needs to be posing with LEC

Too funny . LMFAO (!)

You win the post of the day

I know we all love a good rumor, at lease most of us. , the FIA is looking for alternatives.
F1 track not used for nine years is shock contender to return to calendar THIS SEASON
Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia

The new SC (!)

https://x.com/F1/status/2080345064358744423

Hot temperatures mean tyre management will be even more important than usual. Low grip surface plus softer compound tyres means higher downforce is required, probably similar to Monaco levels.
Plenty of incremental upgrades arriving for the midfield teams, but I think the better handling cars will win the day over brute HP.

1. HAM
2. VER
3. ANT
4. LEC
5. NOR
6. RUS
7. PIA
8. GAS
9. HAD
10. HUL

Car-Addicted wrote

I know we all love a good rumor, at lease most of us. With the pesky Mooooslemmmms firing off cluster bombs at Dubai, the FIA is looking for alternatives.
F1 track not used for nine years is shock contender to return to calendar THIS SEASON
Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia

Hope so, I like that track!

Killed by Death wrote

Again and again? What does that mean?

It means you're feeding a troll....
He's not here to participate in fruitful discussions.
He belongs to the butthurt group.

GuidoK wrote

It means you're feeding a troll....
He's not here to participate in fruitful discussions.
He belongs to the butthurt group.

Killed by Death wrote

Doesn't the narration in this YouTube video sound like an AI generated Martin Brundle?

I'm about sick of ALL this AI bull$hit. ALL OF IT!!!

Not really AI at fault, it is the people using AI to try and do usual get rich quick stuff without any regard to creating useful or meaningful content. It is only going to get worse. It lowers the barrier of entry to people that would never be capable of acquiring the skills to produce anything worthwhile. These type of people generally have no taste, aesthetics, empathy or the ability to live as a functioning member in a high trust society.

It’s like you and I owning a machete to do gardening while others of a particular mindset use it to rob or terrorise others.

So just generally file it under “why we can’t have nice things”.