Hungarian GP FP3: Norris Tops Practice as Verstappen Slips to P7
Ferrari had the run of the Hungaroring on Friday. Lando Norris clearly did not get the memo.
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Ferrari had the run of the Hungaroring on Friday. Lando Norris clearly did not get the memo.
The Hungaroring resurfaced parts of its track. The track is now breaking apart. You genuinely could not make it up.
Ten poles from ten races. Mercedes have been flawless in qualifying all season, and Kimi Antonelli plus George Russell have made Saturday afternoons feel almost predictable. Almost.
Red Bull turned up in Budapest hoping the Hungaroring would be kinder to the RB22 than Silverstone or Spa. It was not.
Oscar Piastri had a Friday to forget at the Hungaroring.
Aston Martin spent months building a brand-new car. It lasted 36 minutes before breaking down and sending Lance Stroll into a 360-degree spin at the Hungaroring.
Ferrari arrived at the Hungaroring and proceeded to make the rest of the field look like they were on a different tyre compound, a different circuit, and possibly a different planet.
If you wanted a sign that Max Verstappen has not mellowed with age, Hungarian GP FP1 delivered it within the first ten minutes.
Charles Leclerc went quickest in Hungarian GP FP1 by nearly half a second, Ferrari looked genuinely rapid, and Aston Martin turned up with 16 new parts and promptly snapped a rear suspension.
Formula 1's 2026 calendar is starting to resemble a game of geopolitical Jenga, and another brick has just wobbled loose.
Red Bull are bringing back the rear wing that already binned Max Verstappen twice this season.
For weeks, Mercedes pointed the finger at George Russell's driving style. Adjust your throttle pick-up. Change your gear usage. Try a new technique.
Five teams, five rookies, one Friday morning.
Valtteri Bottas is not a man given to panic.
George Russell arrives at the Hungaroring carrying 50 points of baggage, a radio outburst that went viral, and the kind of forced smile that only a team-principal pep talk can produce.
Forty years of Formula 1 at the Hungaroring. Forty years of drivers complaining it is impossible to overtake, then somehow producing races nobody forgets.
Ten races of misery, one enormous gamble.
Liam Lawson is doing his job.
Lewis Hamilton could have blamed the stewards, blamed the suspension, blamed the pitlane traffic light.
Max Verstappen heads to the Hungarian Grand Prix in a better mood than he has enjoyed for most of 2026.