Poll: Official 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix Thread - Hungaroring, Budapest - Round 12

[chrismscotland]

Looking forward to seeing his race pace but good for Ricciardo, first outing in a car he's never driven

 

[chrismscotland]

Liking the new format, certainly been exciting!
Great for McLaren, both on row 2!

 

[chrismscotland]

Best qualy for Zhou in his career I think they said!

 

[chrismscotland]

Get in there Lewis! Russell must be fuming.

Verstappen will be told by the team to play the long game but I wonder if he’ll be able to stop himself in the first corner…

I think he'll be more worried about Norris at turn 1 than Hamilton - its a crap side of the grid to start on here

 

[chrismscotland]

Poor start for Ricciardo, down 5 places

 

[chrismscotland]

They mentioned Zhou tapped an AlphaTauri, guess it was Ricciardo

Oh yeah just seen the replay

 

[chrismscotland]

Alpine might as well not have turned up

 

[chrismscotland]

So much for Aston looking forward to the Hungaroring, they look so slow now

 

[chrismscotland]

Really impressed with Piastri

 

[chrismscotland]

Leclerc reported for speeding in the pit lane, usually a slam dunk

 

[chrismscotland]

Where has aston Martins speed gone. 2nd fastest car a few races ago

I suspect their factory move, etc is starting to have an impact on development

 

[chrismscotland]

I suspect Perez has plenty in the tank if he needs it anyway

 

[chrismscotland]

Great to see Norris 2nd again, McLaren really are back

 

[chrismscotland]

Max way out in front but some decent battles throughout the top 10

 

[chrismscotland]

Christ, turning off - can't stand Rosberg

 

[chrismscotland]

Nice to see that Ricciardo finished ahead of Tsunoda despite his travails at the first corner

 

[chrismscotland]

An absolute snooze fest once Max managed to get into the lead into T1. Feel sorry for Piastri on the strategy call as it put him out of kilter but Norris seemed to have the legs on him today. Mercedes pace bizarre, seemed to be nowhere then all of a sudden once the fuel load came down they started really pushing on. Can't see anyone beating Max in Spa - barring mechanical failure I just can't see anyone beating him for the remainder of the season.

Looks as though the Alonso fairytale is starting to derail somewhat, feels like the rest of the pack have leapfrogged them by some margin.

It feels like Aston haven't had many upgrades since the start of the year, I also suspect they're now being disrupted by the move into the new factory mid-season

 

[chrismscotland]

Any idea what the zak brown and money comment was about? seem to hit a bit of a nerve with lando but I cant relate it to anything I've read anywhere.

They were just having a laugh, although I assume the money comment was directed at something that's been in the news or something, I don't know either tbh!

 

[chrismscotland]

Its harder as you don't grab the headlines. But Williams seem still a decent team. Haas and alfa are so anonymous, you barely see them. Especially bottas. Sometimes I don't even think he's mentioned apart from in the grid run down!

Williams are helped by having Albon who's generally very media friendly and generally well liked.