Poll: Official 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread - Hungaroring, Budapest - Race 14/24

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Ouch. A neck injury is a pretty major deal for an F1 driver, although this isn't the most strenuous circuit as it's mostly slow corners, bar turn 4. I'd bet he's out for the weekend.

*Edit* I just realised that says 'back' - not sure why I read 'neck'. Need better glasses, clearly.
 
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cuke2u said:
No we are not, but Norris was faster, pole on qualifying and he also was in the race, the advantage Norris had through the undercut was what takes place in many races with the finish being then engineered by team orders. It is a fact that without those orders Norris would have won.
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But McLaren chose to give Norris that undercut in contravention of their (and pretty much every other teams) policy of giving the driver in the lead first pick of pit timing and did so telling Piastri that Norris would give the place and telling Norris that he'd have to do so. That's every bit as much team orders as the swap. It doesn't make sense to ignore that -- and its not like we don't recognise this on the many occasions its been used to swap the drivers round and give the lead driver the advantage on track.

Norris was faster that weekend, but he messed up, Piastri got the better of him and he wasn't good enough to get ahead.

chrismscotland said:
Alonso missing FP1 with a "muscular injury in his back" - Felipe Drugovich in the Aston Martin
Yet to be confirmed if he will miss the entire weekend
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If it is an injury, as opposed to him having mildly tweaked something, I'd expect him to miss the rest too. It be cool to see Drugovich get a race.
 
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Alonso expected to be in the car for FP2 (according to Mike Krack) although probably depends how he feels after that on his future participation in the rest of the weekend.
 
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But McLaren chose to give Norris that undercut in contravention of their (and pretty much every other teams) policy of giving the driver in the lead first pick of pit timing and did so telling Piastri that Norris would give the place and telling Norris that he'd have to do so. That's every bit as much team orders as the swap. It doesn't make sense to ignore that -- and its not like we don't recognise this on the many occasions its been used to swap the drivers round and give the lead driver the advantage on track.

Norris was faster that weekend, but he messed up, Piastri got the better of him and he wasn't good enough to get ahead.



If it is an injury, as opposed to him having mildly tweaked something, I'd expect him to miss the rest too. It be cool to see Drugovich get a race.
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We all know the circumstances but at the end of the day it was a team decision to tell Norris to give up the lead, that is a fact and I doubt if that was a pre race agreement. The circumstances why that situation took place is a different matter and he was very reluctant to agree. No driver wants to be told to slow down and give up a win because the team says so. In this case the drivers were not allowed to race.
 
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The McLarens are looking ominously mighty in practice. Something that can't be said of the Red Bulls, and Max has more troubles after appearing to throw something -- possibly a towel? -- from his cockpit after leaving the pits which has led to a summons by the stewards for living the pits in an unsafe condition.
 
RBR get a warning for releasing Max with a towel in the car

Shortly after Car 1 was released from its garage, the driver of Car 1 was observed to have thrown a towel out of the cockpit. The driver explained that while in the garage,the face towel had slipped from his lap to the side of the seat and the team was unaware that it remained in the cockpit. When the driver realised it was there, he moved to the far right of the track and attempted to throw it as far away from the car and the track as possible.

The Stewards determine that the towel had the potential to have become lodged in the footwell and to interfere with the driver’s ability to fully control the car and that therefore the car was released in an unsafe condition. The stewards consider this case to be distinguishable from a case where a hard (and therefore potentially dangerous) object is left in the cockpit and to be less severe than such a case.Hence a warning to the team is imposed.
 
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