Monday 24 July 2023

2023 Hungarian Grand Prix Review

Review of the eleventh round of the 2023 F1 season at the Hungaroring outside of Budapest, for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

It was the race where Current Formula 1 Champion Max Verstappen controlled the race from the start of the Grand Prix to the end. For the first time since 2021, Sir Lewis Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's race with Verstappen on the front row. At the start of the race Verstappen took the lead before turning in the first corner and never looked back; lead all of the laps, it was Verstappen day, to win this seasons Hungarian Grand Prix for Max Verstappen's ninth race win of the season.



While, Lando Norris finished in second place in the McLaren, Norris was thirty-four seconds behind Verstappen at the end.

Meanwhile, Sergio Pérez finished in third place in the other Red Bull to complete the podium, Pérez was thirty-eight seconds behind Verstappen at the end of the seventy lap race.

Highlights of the race below, enjoy.



Rate the Teams and Drivers

Red Bull Racing - 9
Max Verstappen - 10 (race win, fastest lap)
Sergio Pérez - 8 (finished third)

Ferrari - 6
Charles Leclerc - 6 (finished seventh)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 6 (finished eighth)

Mercedes - 7
Lewis Hamilton - 7 (pole, finished fourth)
George Russell - 8 (finished sixth)

Alpine - 5
Esteban Ocon - 5 (DNF, Collision damage with Gasly)
Pierre Gasly - 5 (DNF, Collision damage with Ocon)

McLaren - 8
Lando Norris - 9 (finished second)
Oscar Piastri - 8 (finsihed fifth)

Alfa Romeo - 5
Valtteri Bottas - 5 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Guanyu Zhou - 5 (finished sixteenth, lap down)

Aston Martin - 6
Fernando Alonso - 7 (finished ninth)
Lance Stroll - 5 (finished tenth, lap down)

Haas - 5
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Nico Hülkenberg - 5 (finished fourteenth, lap down)

AlphaTauri - 5
Yuki Tsunoda - 5 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Daniel Ricciardo - 6 (finished thirteenth, lap down)

Williams - 5
Alexander Albon - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Logan Sargeant - 5 (finished eighteenth/DNF, three laps down/Overheating)


Next stop Spa-Francorchamps for the Belgian Grand Prix in a weeks time.

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