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Rate the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix out of 10
- 10 (8%)
- 9 (18%)
- 8 (27%)
- 7 (27%)
- 6 (4%)
- 5 (3%)
- 4 (2%)
- 3 (2%)
- 2 (2%)
- 1 (5%)
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2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
- Verstappen names Hungarian GP the most stressful moment of his title-winning year
- McLaren team orders “a new situation we’re inexperienced at handling” – Piastri
- Verstappen dismisses critics of “vocal” radio messages and late-night simracing
- Norris’ former McLaren team mates say he was right to give up win
- Mercedes surprised Hamilton’s car was “completely unscathed” in Verstappen clash
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lynn-m
21st July 2024, 15:44
0/10.
Tainted win.
I hope Lando loses the championship by the points he was robbed of by the team today.
David
21st July 2024, 15:46
Would have been a tainted win for Lando given the way McLaren handled their strategy. Room for improvement for sure.
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
21st July 2024, 16:28
The way I see how it has played out is a loss for all the stakeholders – Mclaren with their self-orchestrated strategic blunder, Piastri for having an asterick on the maiden win based on car swap, and Lando for letting the race win go, which makes him look weaker along with his poor race starts.
Pete
21st July 2024, 18:38
If Lando only loses the Championship by a few points, he’ll look back at his complete inability to retain his position at the start as a bigger problem than McLaren making a bad decision today.
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
22nd July 2024, 1:07
Surely that’s not a reflection on the whole race?
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
21st July 2024, 15:44
The Hungaroring rocks.
How come a track that was so boring 14 years ago turned into a place you know definetly will provide entertainment??
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
21st July 2024, 15:52
@fer-no65 My opinion – because of DRS. DRS makes a lot of tracks worse because it makes passing a slam dunk and track position means nothing. On circuits where overtaking was always extremely difficult, DRS can do what it’s supposed to do – provide a chance of overtaking, without making it a gimme. We therefore get cars going side by side for multiple corners, but drivers still have to work for their overtakes. Relatively high degradation also opens up more strategy options so that you get a lot of pace differentials at different points of the race, which also generates some action.
albo94
21st July 2024, 15:58
You are spot-on here. You couldn’t say it better.
For instance, DRS should be banned on the Kemmel straight at SPA. Unfortunately, it won’t be the case.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
21st July 2024, 16:09
That’s true. Probably the only track in which DRS truly worked as intended.
Tys (@bwoken14)
21st July 2024, 15:58
The power of DRS isn’t too strong, isn’t too weak, it’s just perfect. Also it’s similar to places like Suzuka and Spa in that watching a car driving around it is very aesthetically pleasing. Turns 1, 2 and 3 are perfect for action too.
Jim from US (@jimfromus)
21st July 2024, 15:44
You win a race because your team screws up the pit stops and then forces your teammate to pull over. Not a way to win any race especially your first win.
J3d89
21st July 2024, 16:24
The team pitted lando first in both occasions to protect lando from being undercut, lando gained an advantage by getting preference, he knows he wouldn’t be that close to piastri have not been for the team doing undercut to help him
regulus (@regulus)
21st July 2024, 16:57
+1
David BR (@david-br)
21st July 2024, 15:44
9 for the race, 0 for McLaren, absolutely abject from the pit wall, pathetic, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Broderick Harper (@banbrorace)
21st July 2024, 15:46
Couldn’t out it better myself.
Nitzo (@webtel)
21st July 2024, 15:44
That was very sad and ugly to watch. Never once did I expect a team to beg their racing leading driver so much !!
I am with Lando and I am very intrigued to know why Piastri wasn’t able to catch up with Lando after the second stop. Was it because his ‘off’ at T12 ruining his tyres that much?
And I also think Piastri lost too much time while passing the backmarkers. He’s not used to this much in junior racing but I just hope he learns.
Jere (@jerejj)
21st July 2024, 15:45
A typical dry Hungaroring race & one of this season’s most straightforward ones.
BLS (@brightlampshade)
21st July 2024, 15:46
7ish? Bit of all sorts going on – positive racing, intrateam drama, driver/engineer drama, squabbles throughout the field.
The happiest drivers after that race are probably the ones in 3rd and 4th weirdly.
Broderick Harper (@banbrorace)
21st July 2024, 15:47
MaClaren did more to help Verstappen towards another title, than his own team did.
As we used to see in the boring old days of Hamilton and Button – they’re more interested in been nice, than winning things.
David BR (@david-br)
21st July 2024, 15:51
@banbrorace They don’t seem to be taking the drivers championship seriously. It’s within range.
debaser91
21st July 2024, 15:55
If Piastri had pitted in first and then Norris was so close that he was obviously faster, fair enough, no complaints. But the team screwed that up completely by pitting Norris first, there was zero justification for doing that. They have a very fast car now but on the pit wall they are behaving like complete amateurs. And then they compound this by being scared to give Lando a direct order if they want him to let Oscar past.
Broderick Harper (@banbrorace)
21st July 2024, 16:00
Piastri made a couple of errors and then Norris was simply faster.
Absolutely bonkers, when Lando is the only one who can catch Max.
Let’s see if these two can now march off into the sunset for the rest of the season and Piastri now ‘gives’ Lando the wins he will need to have any chance of catching Max – which of course has been lessened after this farce.
debaser91
21st July 2024, 16:05
The fault is with the team, not Norris, the way Mclaren handled it was appalling. Piastri lost the lead because Lando undercut him, when everyone knows in F1 that the lead car gets strategy preference when it comes to pitting. You can argue all day long that Lando was faster but that is fact. There was no need to pit Norris first but then having done that then they should have given a clear order to swap positions shortly after both cars had pitted. Then there’s still time to race to the end, or they can call it off with x amount of laps to go if they want to protect the 1-2. But the way they went about it was a joke.
debaser91
21st July 2024, 15:48
Wow. I’ll give it a 7.5 because of all the politics playing out in public so it was certainly engaging but two things were absolutely pathetic in that race: 1) Mclaren’s handling of the whole situation and 2) Verstappen’s conduct the whole race, ending with him turning his car into a bowling bowl at the end.
I simply can’t believe the decisions Mclaren made in that race that has took the shine off a dominant 1-2 where Red Bull were nowhere near them. There was absolutely no justification for bringing in Norris first, Hamilton wasn’t a threat and even worse, the wishy washy messages they sent to Lando for 20 laps before finally they gave a clear instruction to let Piastri by. I don’t blame either driver, without Lando coming in first Oscar had that race under control and the team never actually gave Lando the clear instruction to let Piastri past until 3 laps to go. Incredible.
Tys (@bwoken14)
21st July 2024, 15:49
8/10 – Max Verstappen vs Hamilton and himself was an intriguing battle throughout, lots of strategic interest as usual in Hungary.
But Lando was robbed there. He didn’t ask for Oscar to make two mistakes. McLaren brought that upon themselves. If the championship has 7 points in it McLaren will have egg on their faces.
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
21st July 2024, 15:51
McLaren showing again why they aren’t ready to win a championship.
Same for Lando. When you have a shot to win your first championship you need to be ruthless & take every point & especially every win that comes your way and that is extra important when the guy your fighting for it has a bad day like Max did today.
If Piastri had shown he was faster than Lando in the final stint then OK there’s an argument to let him try & pass but when Lando is clearly faster & building a 6 second gap then he deserved the win and if the team wanted to maintain Piastri ahead then they shouldn’t have given Lando the undercut by pitting him first.
McLaren made themselves & especially the sport (Well show as it is now) look like a joke today.
asz
21st July 2024, 16:09
Piastri might have been like, ‘I have already worked for that win and the team took it away, now it is absolutely on them to rectify this. It is not my job to win a race twice if my team robs me once.’
So he might not have pushed really hard while Norris did begin to push, both of them doing it to make their own point.
David BR (@david-br)
21st July 2024, 16:19
I don’t think so. He apologized on the radio for making the team’s job harder by falling back in the final stint.
asz
21st July 2024, 16:23
Yeah, and Lando smiled and congratulated afterwards. The done thing. Not necessarily what they feel and think.
David BR (@david-br)
21st July 2024, 16:58
True, but whatever he actually felt, the message suggested he was pushing, Norris was just faster.
David BR (@david-br)
21st July 2024, 16:22
@roger-ayles Norris really isn’t a ruthless driver, I think that’s more than clear now. Even so, my impression was that he thought the team was making a wrong call asking them to swap because of the championship situation. And he was of course right. So he gave them time to think it through. But in the end he must have decided, maybe correctly, that giving Piastri the place will allow him to ask for a return favour in the future if he needs it for the championship.
stefano (@alfa145)
21st July 2024, 16:05
In hindisght, both McLaren and Norris played this very much subpar and made mistakes. McLaren shouldn’t have put themselves in this position in the first place, as Hamilton wasn’t the threat they were anticipating. They orchestrated their own mess themselves with no real need.
On the other hand, Norris should have anticipated all that was to come as soon as he got out of the pits in first, and let Piastri through straight away. He had the pace and the time to overtake him for good, rather than only trying for the 2 laps as he eventually did.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the race a lot, DRS as usual doing its best to ruin otherwise good racing. Hamilton Verstappen was quite rough and enjoyable. Gave it a 9
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
21st July 2024, 16:19
7/10
There was a battle for all the top 3 positions throughout the race. Not being at the sharp end of the grid for a long time was evident in Mclaren’s strategy and driver management. But having said that it would have been wise for Norris to stick to his place, he had build a gap of over 6 seconds at one point during the final stint. Now that Red Bull is not the fastest car anymore, the pressure seems to be getting on them with unforced errors from Max and the team (I am not considering Perez as he is currently of no use on GP weekends). Hamilton seems to pick up the pace back to back good results and solid points haul. Mclaren has closed the gap on the constructors and could well take the crown, unless Red Bull comes back strong in the second half.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
21st July 2024, 16:24
The race itself was only a 6 or a 7, but I have given it a 9 for the entertainment value.
The McLaren radio stuff was pure gold.
Max ranting and cursing because other people were driving the same way he always has was hilarious as well.
Yuki impressed me by being the only one stopper and even Sargeant managed to reach the end.
t1redmonkey (@t1redmonkey)
21st July 2024, 17:20
As others have pointed out, the radio messages were the main source of entertainment! Though the racing was quite watchable too to be fair. I’m sure the Racefans staff have already got some articles penciled in for a comparison of Lando vs Oscar’s radio messages, and also another for Max’s various rants throughout the race!
Dale
21st July 2024, 19:42
Watched 3 days worth of practice, qualifying and racing … just to see a boardroom coordinated fake result.
Time I’ll never get back.
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
22nd July 2024, 0:46
6/10. A little mean maybe but I thought it was pretty unexciting in racing terms. The main excitement was in the strategy calls/race management/team radio messages. Again I am confused that it has been marked so highly be some.
The main battle was for 3rd place. Max seemed pretty unhappy with his car and out of control today. Not used to having to battle for the minor placings.
Dave The Drummer (@davethedrummer)
22nd July 2024, 9:10
Definitely amusing to see Verstappen cracking under some actual pressure.