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

[Mr Jack]

Looks like there's quite a lot of weather around, some falling soon and possibly some more falling during the race.

 

[englishpremier]

Hope everyone is doing their rain dance otherwise this will be a snooze fest regardless of the out of place cars/teams on the grid. So far it's predicted to be dry all day.

 

[Coolasmoo]

Lewis not on the drivers parade

Edit - He was hiding

 

[jonneymendoza]

Lewis not on the drivers parade

O wow

 

[jonneymendoza]

I'm not so sure. I think he could get outperformed by the drivers at the top teams now. Charles is doing it right now, Russell was doing it and Max certainly would. Would Piastri? Probably - especially in years to come as he gains more experience. I think his only chance comes if he joins someone with a weaker partner who unexpectedly makes an insane car a la Brawn.

Diddnt Hamilton outscore Russell in one season?

 

[Psycho Ned]

Always thought this season would be a 'getting feet under the table' season with Ferrari but his confidence being rock bottom now isn't going to be a great frame of mind to go into 2026 with.

Is it the ground effect cars? Is it what happened in 2021? Is it age? Probably all of them tbh, I think 2021 knocked a lot of the stuffing out of him which wasn't helped when Merc didn't produce a race winning car in 2022 so he had no chance of righting the wrong. The fire inside him just doesn't seem quite there now. Think he joined Ferrari hoping to get it back but so far not so good.

 

[el_dazza]

Looks like there's quite a lot of weather around, some falling soon and possibly some more falling during the race.

It's looking more likely about an hour into the race now!

 

[t2na]

Diddnt Hamilton outscore Russell in one season?

Over the course of all 3 seasons together Hamilton had more points than Russell - and outscored him in 2023. Russell finished ahead in the drivers in both 2022 and 2024.

2022 was also that comical year where Mercedes seemed to be trying the most whacky races setups for the first 6 months on Hamilton's car trying to make their zero sidepod design work.

 

[SpartaP]

Lovely change of pace from the normal grid walk.

Love all the nerdy info from Martin, this is what F1 is all about to me

 

[jonneymendoza]

Lovely change of pace from the normal grid walk.

Love all the nerdy info from Martin, this is what F1 is all about to me

Not tuned in yet

 

[[timko]]

Love all the nerdy info from Martin, this is what F1 is all about to me

Same. I've been watching F1 for many decades and Martin more often than not still comes up with something new I've not heard before.

 

[Vinno]

Looks cold and windy there right now. Do we expect rain?

 

[utajoker]

Just said rain on the way

 

[[timko]]

Looks cold and windy there right now. Do we expect rain?

Currently not but with the wind picking up it might bring in something unexpected...

Ok never mind, live just said there "is a chance"

 

[el_dazza]

Looks cold and windy there right now. Do we expect rain?

Accuweather has rain hitting approx 25 mins into the race, some intense stuff around but that might not hit the track. Hangs around for around half an hour or so

 

[Flibster]

Air temperature 22°C
Track temperature 33°C
Risk of rain for F1 race is 20%

 

[Flibster]

Wind speed is up and down. Seen it as low as 3mph and up to 9mph so far. Also looks like the direction is fluctuating quite a bit.

 

[Flibster]

Nice to see how Bernie watches the race. I'm not quite that bad.

 

[Mr Jack]

Still expecting a Piastri win but weather could mix things up.

 

[Vinno]

Hoping for Lando win but expecting otherwise. We'll know after the first corner I suspect.