The Hungarian Grand Prix is a motor race held annually in Hungary. Since 1986, the race has been a round of the FIA Formula One World Championship.

The first Hungarian Grand Prix was held on 21 June 1936 over a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) track laid out in Népliget, a park in Budapest. The Mercedes-Benz, Auto Union, and the Alfa Romeo-equipped Ferrari teams all sent three cars and the event drew a very large crowd. However, politics and the ensuing war meant the end of Grand Prix motor racing in the country for fifty years.

A major coup by Bernie Ecclestone, the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix was the first Formula One race to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Held at the twisty Hungaroring in Mogyoród near Budapest, the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar. Run in the heat of a central European summer, it also held the distinction of being the only current Grand Prix venue that had never seen a wet race up until the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. Today, the support is still very enthusiastic, particularly from Finns

Hungarian Grand Prix, Round 10 of the 2017 Formula 1 season 

Circuit Name: Hungaroring

Race Laps: 70

Circuit Length: 4.381 km (2.722 mi)

Race Length: 306.663 km (190.560 mi)

Number of corners: 14 (8 Right, 6 Left)

DRS Zones: T1-2, T14-1

Circuit direction: Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Nico Rosberg - Mercedes 1:19.965

Race track record: 1:19:071 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari 2004

Absolute track record: 1:18.436 Rubens Barrichello – Ferrari, Q1, 2004

Distance from pole to T1 Apex: 617.6 m

Pole position Side: Left

Pit lane length under speed limit Control: 363.1 m

Drive-through Time at 80 km/h: 16.34 s

Lap time at Full Throttle: 33 %

Lap distance at Full Throttle: 44 %

Gear changes per lap: 44

Braking events (>2G): 11

Heavy braking events (<0.4s @ >4G): 1

Fuel consumption: Low

Maximum lateral G-Force: 4.5 G

Maximum speed: 315 km/h

Track evolution (P1 – Qualifying): Medium

Key overtaking opportunities: T 1, 12

Hungaroring Circuit

Pirelli used compounds

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero White Medium

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

Teams/Drivers compounds choice

Driver	Medium	Soft	Super-Soft
Lewis Hamilton	1	3	9
Valtteri Bottas	1	3	9
Daniel Ricciardo	1	3	9
Max Verstappen	1	2	10
Sebastian Vettel	1	3	9
Kimi Raikkonen	1	3	9
Sergio Perez	1	2	10
Esteban Ocon	1	2	10
Lance Stroll	1	2	10
Felipe Massa	1	2	10
Stoffel Vandoorne	1	2	10
Fernando Alonso	1	2	10
Daniil Kvyat	1	3	9
Carlos Sainz	1	3	9
Romain Grosjean	1	4	8
Kevin Magnussen	1	4	8
Nico Hulkenberg	1	2	10
Jolyon Palmer	1	2	10
Marcus Ericsson	1	3	9
Pascal Wehrlein	1	3	9

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

 

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING

“The track was resurfaced in time for last year’s grand prix and it will be interesting to see the effect of this change one year on, as the new asphalt matures. We noticed last year that it was smoother and generally faster than the previous surface. The team’s tyre selections have leaned in favour of soft and supersoft, so we obviously expect that to form the basis of their strategies. Hungary is traditionally a race where strategy makes the difference, also because of the difficulty of overtaking, so the data collection process on Friday and Saturday should be even more important than usual with this brand-new generation of faster cars”.

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Hungarian Grand Prix Winners 1986 – 2016

Year	Driver	Constructor	Location
2016	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Hungaroring
2015	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
2014	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault
2013	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
2012	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
2011	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes
2010	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault
2009	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
2008	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes
2007	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
2006	Jenson Button	Honda
2005	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren-Mercedes
2004	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2003	Fernando Alonso	Renault
2002	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
2001	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2000	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1999	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1998	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1997	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault
1996	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault
1995	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault
1994	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford
1993	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault
1992	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
1991	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
1990	Thierry Boutsen	Williams-Renault
1989	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari
1988	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
1987	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda
1986	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

Number of wins	Driver	Years
5	Lewis Hamilton	2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016
4	Michael Schumacher	1994, 1998, 2001, 2004
3	Ayrton Senna	1988, 1991, 1992
2	Nelson Piquet	1986, 1987
	Damon Hill	1993, 1995
	Jacques Villeneuve	1996, 1997
	Mika Häkkinen	1999, 2000
	Jenson Button	2006, 2011

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

# of wins	Constructor	Years won
11	McLaren	1988, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
7	Williams	1986, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997
6	Ferrari	1989, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2015
2	Red Bull	2010, 2014
	Mercedes	2015, 2016

 

 

Numbers and Facts

 

Most wins (driver) 5, Lewis Hamilton 2007 – 2009 – 2012 – 2013 – 2016

Most wins (constructor) 11, McLaren 1988 – 91 – 92 – 99 – 2000 – 05 – 07 – 08 – 09 – 11 – 12

Wins from pole position: 13, 1988 – 90 – 91 – 94 – 95 – 99 – 2001 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 07 – 12 – 13

Lowest grid for past winner: 14 Jenson Button 2006

Most recent 1-2 finish: 2016 Mercedes (Lewis Hamilton – Nico Rosberg)

Most emphatic win (here) 1993 1m 11.915s Damon Hill and Riccardo Patrese

Closest winning margin: 1990, 0.288 Thierry Boutsen and Ayrton Senna

Rain-affected races: 2, 2006 – 2011

Safety Car-affected races: 4, 2006 – 2010 – 2014 – 2015

Fastest race: 2004, 70 laps @ 1hr 35m 26.131s

Slowest race (here) 1986, 76 laps @ 2hrs 00m 34.508s

Most pole positions (driver) 7, Michael Schumacher 1994 – 96 – 97 – 2000 – 01 – 04 – 05

Most pole positions (constructor) 8, McLaren 88 – 91 – 98 – 99 –06 – 07 – 08 – 12

What Happened last race here?

Lewis Hamilton controlled the race from the moment he passed Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo briefly threatened the leaders at mid-distance but his challenge faded.

Ricciardo had to be content with holding off Sebastian Vettel for third.

The Australian's team-mate Max Verstappen was fifth with Vettel's Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen finishing close behind.

Raikkonen, who drove well from 14th on the grid, collided with Verstappen's Red Bull in a lively fight in the closing laps but was unable to pass the Dutchman.

 

2016 Race Classification

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:40:30.115	2
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+1.977	1
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+27.539	3
4	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	+28.213	5
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+48.659	4
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	+49.044	14
7	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	+1 Lap	7
8	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+1 Lap	6
9	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	+1 Lap	10
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	+1 Lap	9
11	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	+1 Lap	13
12	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	+1 Lap	17
13	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas-Ferrari	+1 Lap	15
14	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	+1 Lap	11
15	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	+1 Lap	19
16	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+1 Lap	12
17	Felipe Nasr	Sauber-Ferrari	+1 Lap	16
18	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	+2 Laps	18
19	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT-Mercedes	+2 Laps	20
20	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	+2 Laps	PL
21	Rio Haryanto	MRT-Mercedes	+2 Laps	21
Ret	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	Oil leak	8

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

✪ Sebastian Vettel has still not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

✪ Vettel and Lewis Hamilton are the only drivers to have finished in the points in all races so far this season

✪ After 10 races in 2017 just 1 point separates Vettel and Hamilton in the championship standings. In 2016 arriving in Hungary after the tenth race, Great Britain, just 1 point separated Nico Rosberg, first and Hamilton second in the championship standings. A case of dèjá vu? (last year after 10, Rosberg had 168 points and Hamilton 167)

✪ Hamilton needs just 1 more top ten finish to beat Jenson Button’s 162 GP in the points, an all-time record for a British driver. Most all-time for a driver of any nationality is 221 races in the points by Michael Schumacher

✪ Hamilton is just 1 pole position from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken pole 41 times already. That is nearly 50% of all races he’s started for the team (41/ 85 = 48.2%).

✪ Hamilton has won (57) 28.8% of all GP he’s started (198) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. Here’s how he compares:- 1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.8%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%, 9. Moss 24.2% 10. Vettel 23.9% (45/188)

✪ Kimi Raikkonen’s next win if ever it comes will be the 21st of his F1 career and will also be the most by a Finnish driver in F1. Currently he shares the record of 20 wins by a Finn with Mika Hakkinen. Another career stat he shares is 37 F1 front row appearances with Fernando Alonso

✪ The Spanish Grand Prix marked the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second while still a teenager. (20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could still become the only teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix from P2 in his Ferrari when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days

✪ Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently = with Pedro Rodriguez on 7) 

✪ The British GP was the 50th race since Nico Hulkenberg last led a GP, Brazil 2014. The only race he’s led since Brazil 2014 is the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours which of course

he won sharing a Porsche 919 Hybrid with New Zealander Earl Bamber and British driver Nick Tandy. Hulkenberg will be 30 on 19 August, before next GP in Belgium

✪ Alonso will celebrate his 36th birthday on Saturday, Qualifying day. Unfortunately, Alonso has not led an F1 race lap since leading laps 55 to 67 here in 2014. Since then he has started 54 GP. The 2014 race here also marked his most recent visit to the race podium

 

CONSTRUCTORS

✪ Mercedes in Hungary will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 50th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams. The lock-out if

achieved would also mark the 149th and 150th F1 front row appearances by a driver racing for Mercedes-Benz

✪ Mercedes as a constructor has set 1 more race fastest lap in F1 World Championship GP (53) than Red Bull (52)

✪ Mercedes now led 1 more F1 World Championship GP as a constructor (89) than Renault - as a constructor (88)

✪ Ferrari has still not scored consecutive pole positions since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix and has still not

scored a consecutive front row lock-out since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

✪ Mercedes and Red Bull have each scored 141 F1 World Championship GP podiums. The most podiums scored is by Ferrari (716)

✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers in 105 different F1 Grand Prix. Mercedes has achieved their podium score in 90 Grand Prix

✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to 1977. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head in 1977 and started all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

✪ McLaren has not led a F1 race lap since Jenson Button led lap 14 of the Hungarian GP here in 2014. The team has started 58 GP since

 

HUNGARIAN GRAD PRIX

✪ Lewis Hamilton is chasing a 6th Hungarian GP win. His 5 wins to date is already an all-time record for the event. Nobody else competing this year has won the race more

than once. At present, the Canadian GP is the only F1 event that Hamilton has won 6 times

✪ Hamilton is chasing a 6th Hungarian GP pole position. To date only Michael Schumacher has more poles here (7) than Hamilton’s 5

✪ Daniel Ricciardo who won here in 2014, his second F1 win, has finished on the podium in Hungary for the past 3 years. He is the only driver to have featured on the

podium here each year for the last 3 years

✪ Mercedes’s 1-2 result here last year was the first 1-2 result for a constructor here since 2004 when Ferrari finished the race first and second

 

Driver’s Championship standing

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Sebastian Vettel	177
2	Lewis Hamilton	176
3	Valtteri Bottas	154
4	Daniel Ricciardo	117
5	Kimi Raikkonen	98
6	Max Verstappen	57
7	Sergio Perez	52
8	Esteban Ocon	43
9	Carlos Sainz Jr.	29
10	Nico Hulkenberg	26
11	Felipe Massa	23
12	Lance Stroll	18
13	Romain Grosjean	18
14	Kevin Magnussen	11
15	Pascal Wehrlein	5
16	Daniil Kvyat	4
17	Fernando Alonso	2
18	Jolyon Palmer	0
19	Marcus Ericsson	0
20	Stoffel Vandoorne	0
21	Antonio Giovinazzi	0
—	Jenson Button	0

 

Constructor’s Championship standing

Pos	Team	Points
1	Mercedes	287
2	Ferrari	254
3	Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer	152
4	Force India Mercedes	89
5	Williams Mercedes	40
6	Toro Rosso	33
7	Haas Ferrari	29
8	Renault	18
9	Sauber Ferrari	5
10	Mclaren Honda	2

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver	Penalty points
Daniil Kvyat	9
Sebastian Vettel	7
Carlos Sainz	7
Kevin Magnussen	5
Jolyon Palmer	5
Sergio Perez	5
Stoffel Vandoorne	5
Nico Hulkenberg	4
Esteban Ocon	3
Romain Grosjean	3
Pascal Wehrlein	2
Felipe Massa	2
Lewis Hamilton	2
Jenson Button	2
Max Verstappen	1