Mekies on Red Bull keeping its car in the window
Laurent Mekies said it has been “hard work” for Red Bull and its drivers to keep the car “in its window” in recent races, and that the team did not give Max Verstappen or Isaac Hadjar a car they could properly push at the Hungarian Grand Prix despite Verstappen finishing second. Mekies said: "I guess it's positive because it means we have margin to improve with the current package, and we will try to see why we are so much on the edge of car balance, corner-out balance, car performing, car not performing because it's been hard work for certainly the drivers, but also the team in these last few races to keep the car in its window."
“It's been hard work” - Red Bull’s F1 car admission after Max Verstappen complaints
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Lance Stroll has now participated in more races over the course of F1 history than Alain Prost
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🤯 Drivers who have managed to convert a pole to victory in Hungary over the last 20 years
🇬🇧 Lando Norris
🇬🇧 Lewis Hamilton
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Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad currently has 6 straight points finishes 👏
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Franco Colapinto set the fastest time (1:20:371) & completed 128 laps during the 1st day of Pirelli tests at the Hungaroring.
Gabriel Bortoleto did 141 laps with a personal best time of 1:20:813.
Jak Crawford drove for Aston Martin, doing 136 laps & his best time was 1:24:598.
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Ferrari trials Mercedes-style lift-off trick
Ferrari has started trialling Mercedes’ qualifying “lift-off” energy deployment trick, which The Race first revealed, as it looks for pole-position gains. Telemetry from the Hungarian Grand Prix showed Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton using it in Friday practice, but Ferrari concluded the Hungaroring offered too little benefit to justify deploying it in qualifying and dropped it for Saturday. The technique exploits a rule allowance on ramp-down rates if the driver lifts before the battery reaches 0%, but carries the risk of disqualification if mistimed.
Ferrari's begun trial of Mercedes F1 qualifying trick
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Lord on Russell's anti-stall start in Hungary
Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord said George Russell’s anti-stall start at the Hungarian Grand Prix was “through no fault of his own”. Lord said: "What we all saw was that he got anti-stall off the line, and that dropped him to the back of the field. The question is why? As George was doing that, the revs actually rose out of proportion to what he was asking for from the throttle. The revs hit the rev limiter... and as he was lifting right off the throttle to under 10% of throttle demand, the lights went out. He made a start with effectively much too little throttle through no fault of his own."
Mercedes explain what led to Russell's P6-P21 start in Hungary
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Red Bull offers Verstappen 2029 deal
Red Bull has reportedly offered Max Verstappen a new contract running to 2029 with a significant pay rise, as it looks to secure his future amid continued speculation linking him with Mercedes and McLaren. BILD claims Verstappen’s performance clause has been activated because he is outside the top two in the drivers’ standings by the summer break, and that the proposed new deal would remove that clause.
Red Bull offers Max Verstappen potential last-ditch offer – Reports
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Wolff on Antonelli's 2026 title lead
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says it is “too early” to call Kimi Antonelli the 2026 title favourite despite the Italian leaving the Hungarian Grand Prix with a 50-point lead in the drivers’ championship. Toto Wolff said: "It's too early to say. I'm superstitious, even though the gap is 50 points, there's so many races to go, a DNF for two can just swing massively. We've not been great on reliability, so we just have to continue to maximise every single day from the Friday onwards to the Sunday and then hopefully at the end that will be enough."
‘Too early to say': Wolff warns Antonelli’s title lead is far from secure
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Vasseur on Verstappen's soft-tyre stint in Hungary
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur said his team was surprised by Max Verstappen making his soft tyres last in the closing stages of the Hungarian Grand Prix as the Red Bull driver finished second. Vasseur said: "It's true that at the end of the race I think everybody was surprised because Max did something like 37 laps with softs. We were expecting a life half of this, perhaps. It was surprising, but I think it's surprising for everybody."
Ferrari surprised by "spicy" Red Bull strategy that yielded Max Verstappen second in Hungary
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Stella on pitting Piastri first in Hungary
McLaren boss Andrea Stella said the team prioritised pitting Oscar Piastri ahead of Lando Norris in the Hungarian Grand Prix because Piastri had taken the lead “in a fair manner” and McLaren needed to cover the undercut threat from Lewis Hamilton. Stella said: "Up until the time Oscar pitted, Oscar had gained the lead in a fair manner in Turn 2, so he deserved an opportunity to try and win the race. If you look at the race, you will see that when Hamilton pits, he is in a position to undercut the two McLarens, so we needed to respond because that was the right way to take the car to victory. Oscar was in the lead, and we thought that he was the right car to stop for that."
McLaren explain Lando Norris refusal as papaya rules makes F1 return
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Leclerc on Ferrari's tendency to miss expectations
Charles Leclerc says Ferrari needs to understand a “tendency” for both cars to perform well on weekends the team expects to struggle and then fall short when it expects to be strong, after finishing fourth and fifth at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc said: "So there's clearly a tendency, and it's not that one car is doing well because he's doing exceptionally in the car; both cars seem to have that tendency, of being good on the weekend where we expected to struggle and struggling on the weekend where we thought we would be good. So this is to be understood."
Charles Leclerc highlights perplexing Ferrari trend after Hungary letdown
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