月: 2021年7月

The Red Bull driver had shadowed rival Mercedes’ strategy in doing his first Q2 run on the medium compound – with F1’s rules dictating drivers must start the race on the compound they do their fastest lap on in that segment.
Although he switched to the soft for his final run, it is a common practice for drivers to do that and put in a quick banker over the opening segment of the lap and then …Keep reading

Hamilton charged to his third pole position of the 2021 season – and his first since the Spanish Grand Prix in early May – at the Hungaroring on Saturday, leading a front row lock-out for Mercedes.
Hamilton’s lap of 1m15.419s saw him finish three-tenths clear of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas, while title rival Max Verstappen finished four-tenths off in third place.
But the end of …Keep reading

Hamilton will start ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying results: Hamilton on pole from …Keep reading

The Mercedes and Red Bull cars will head into the race on split starting tyre strategies after Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez – who missed setting a final Q3 lap at the back of the queue as the Red Bulls trailed behind the slowly touring Mercedes drivers on the final warm-up lap – used the soft tyres to set their best times in Q2, where Hamilton and Bottas got through on the …Keep reading

Full results from qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring, round 11 of the 2021 Formula…

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes that teams still developing their current car will need “a magic wand” to…

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After the FIA stewards decided not to conduct a further review into the penalty handed to Lewis Hamilton following his contact with Max Verstappen, the respective bosses of Red Bull and Mercedes suggested on Friday in Hungary that they want to put that particular event behind them.
“It wasn’t the response that we were hoping for but we accept it and now we close the chapter and …Keep reading

Although the majority of the field spent the first third of the session in their garages, the Haas pair headed out immediately – with Nikita Mazepin on the mediums and Mick Schumacher on the softs, a split that was replicated across the few cars that soon joined them.
Mazepin established the first place benchmark at a 1m25.419s with his opening lap, which Schumacher immediately bettered with …Keep reading