A Hungarian Grand Prix full of emotions

Hungarian grand prix

After a dramatic weekend in Hungary Lando Norris took the victory after Charles Leclerc had a Sunday to forget. The ferrari lead for over half of the grand prix until issues started occurring and he rapidly dropped from pole to being out of podium contention, to then being handed a 5 second penalty post race due to ‘erratic driving’ close to George Russell who clinched P3. 

Both Ferrari’s struggled after Lewis Hamilton qualified P12 and after stating in his media interviews that Ferrari should “Just change their driver” he failed to make any positions up in the order in Sunday’s race. Left wondering again, what is happening with Ferrari this season?

A good day for the rookies with Bortoletto, Lawson & Antonelli finishing in the top 10, with Hadjar just missing out on points in P11. Both Aston Martins both gained points in P5 & P7 the teams best finish in 2025 so far. Rookie Gabriel Bortoletto was voted driver of the day, after qualifying P7 on Saturday and making up a place in Sundays main race, a season best for the Brazilian. 

Now we have a 3 week break until the Dutch Grand Prix, will there be any mid season driver changes? Cadillac are set to announce their driver line up for 2026 in the coming weeks, with names such as Sergio Perez, Valterri Bottas and Mick Schumaker being thrown around in the mix for the seats. 

One things for the sure, the rest of this season is going to be jam packed full with excitement.   

An uneventful sprint weekend

Saturday sprint results

P1 - Max Verstappen +8 

P2 - Oscar Piastri +7

P3 - Lando norris +6

P4 - Charles Leclerc +5

P5 - Esteban Ocon +4

P6 - Carlos Sainz +3

P7 - Ollie Bearman +2

P8 - Isak Hadjar +1

P9 - Gabriel Bortoletto

P10 - Liam lawson

P11 - Yuki Tsunoda

P12 - George Russell

P13 - Lance Stroll

P14 - Fernando Alonso

P15 - Lewis hamilton

P16 - Alex Albon

P17 - Kimi Antonelli

P18 - Nico Hulkenberg

P19 - Franco Colapinto

P20 - Pierre Gasly

Todays sprint race in spa was lacking in action, but how much action can you pack into 15 laps of racing. Pierre Gasly had to start for the pitlane due to a oil leak and therefore dropped 12 places after qualifying P8 on Friday. Max Verstappen overtook Oscar Piastri early on and maintained his lead, even with both mclarens threatening his position each lap but just couldn’t reach him.

Moving onto qualifying for the grand prix 

A disappointing qualifying for Aston martin with both cars out in Q1, along with the mercedes of Antonelli, the alpine of Colapinto and the ferrari of Hamilton after his lap time was deleted due to his car being over the white line on track. 

A good day for VCARB with both drivers making it into Q3. And Albon qualifying in P5. And Norris clinched pole from his teammate Piastri at the last second. 

It was later announced that 4 drivers would be starting from the pitlane with Alonso, Antonelli, Hamilton and Sainz all taking upgrades after qualifying.

Starting line-up

P1 Lando Norris

P2 Oscar Piatsri

P3 Charles Leclerc

P4 Max Verstappen

P5 Alex Albon

P6 George Russell

P7 Yuki Tsunoda

P8 Isak Hadjar

P9 Liam Lawson

P10 Gabriel Bortoletto

P11 Esteban Ocon

P12 Ollie Bearman

P13 Pierre Gasly

P14 Niko Hulkenberg

P15 Lance Stroll

Pitlane - Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Antonelli, Carlos Sainz, Fernando Alonso