Hungarian Grand Prix 2016, Budapest - Race 11/21

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Hungary first hosted a Grand Prix in the 1930s, but following the Second World War and the building of the Iron Curtain it was not until the 1960s that motorsport began to find a place in the country.

At the start of the 1980s there was a general wish for a Grand Prix to be held behind the Iron Curtain and negotiations took place with the Soviet Union with a view to a race being held in Moscow. In the summer of 1983 however, the attention of the Formula One decision makers turned away from Moscow and towards Budapest in Hungary, whose national sporting authority was keen to put the country back on the map of global motorsport.

At first a street race through Budapest was suggested, but in the end the decision was taken to build a brand new circuit in a valley 19 kilometres outside Budapest.

The valley provided natural vantage points for spectators and in 1985 work began on the Hungaroring. The track opened in 1986 and it held its first Formula One event in August that year. It was a huge success and almost 200,000 fans showed up.

Although tight and twisty, the circuit has been known to throw up some great races, the most memorable being Thierry Boutsen's win in 1990, beating Ayrton Senna by 0.3 seconds, and of course the 1997 race where Damon Hill in the Arrows sensationally passed Michael Schumacher's Ferrari only to be denied the win by mechanical failure on the very last lap.


TV Times

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C4:
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Track Diagram & Information

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Weather Forecast

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2015 Onboard Lap

http://www.formula1.com/en/video/2015/7/Onboard_pole_position_lap_-_Hungary.html


2015 Race Edit

http://www.formula1.com/en/video/2015/7/Race_edit__Hungary_'15.html


Tyre Set Selections Per Driver - Hungary

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Hungary Preview Quotes

http://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2016/7/hungary-preview-quotes---.html


WDC Standings

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Constructors' Championship Standings

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Practice 1

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Practice 2

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Practice 3

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Qualifying

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Race

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Finally a thread :)

I will manage to catch the race, but will be travelling for the rest :(

Will Hamilton take his penalties here or in a later race? Hoping that this will be the race where he finally overtakes that cheating German in the standings.
 
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Its typical FIA. They have invented unnessasary rules to over-regulate a problem that they created themselves, and then when the over-regulation of the regulations highlights a loophole in the regulation that allows teams to circumvent the regulation, they apply additional over-regulations on top of the over-regulations to stop the abuse of the regulations!

Did you know, there is a regulation that bans the drivers from doing donuts after a race, and then another regulation that specifically allows "one period of celebration" for the winner. The FIA have regulated donuts!!
 
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Its typical FIA. They have invented unnessasary rules to over-regulate a problem that they created themselves, and then when the over-regulation of the regulations highlights a loophole in the regulation that allows teams to circumvent the regulation, they apply additional over-regulations on top of the over-regulations to stop the abuse of the regulations!

Did you know, there is a regulation that bans the drivers from doing donuts after a race, and then another regulation that specifically allows "one period of celebration" for the winner. The FIA have regulated donuts!!

All of this could have been avoided if they'd just applied a sensible penalty (Drive through / ~30secs) to Rosberg in the first place. It's as though they enjoy making their lives more difficult and introducing more and more ambiguity
 

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Any aids to help a driver 'feel' the car and what other drivers are doing etc. should be banned sure - but why they have to ban comms when the car starts going faulty is ridiculous.

I want them to be racing drivers, driving the machine with it working properly - who wants to tune into watch the drivers trying but unable to fix car problems midrace!?
 
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Exactly. Its a knee jerk reaction to the pretty lenient 10 second penalty! How did they not see that coming. It was about 10 minutes after the penalty was issued before all the team bosses just said "meh, if its just 10 seconds, we will just brake the rule and take the penalty".

Bloody incompetent idiots.
 
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Another FIA over reaction to an issue caused by their own stupidity.

The fact they have removed the grass and extended the kerbs to double width in order to install detectors is just hilarious!
 
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