The winners of this weekend’s fortieth consecutive version of the Hungarian Grand Prix – within the seventy fifth season of Method 1 – will obtain their trophies from the 200-year-old Herend porcelain firm.
There’s loads of causes to have fun this vital milestone for the Hungaroring, not least of which is the redeveloped observe (works are estimated to have price nearly €200m) that may greet followers this weekend. Solely Autodromo Monza, residence of the Italian Grand Prix, can boast an extended steady presence on the Method 1 calendar than the Hungaroring.
In the present day, the distinctive trophies for this 12 months’s race had been offered to the media on the prime of the utterly rebuilt Hungaroring grandstand (beforehand often known as the Tremendous Gold grandstand) reverse the pits and beginning grid. As soon as once more, the trophies have been made by the world-famous Herend porcelain firm from Hungary, which celebrates it’s 2 hundredth anniversary this 12 months.
As Herend CEO, Attila Simon, stated, “we don’t know who will stand on the rostrum on Sunday, however one factor is for sure; the trophies shall be there, and hopefully the winners will convey them residence in a single piece!” Infamously, Lando Norris by chance broken Max Verstappen’s trophy in the course of the podium ceremony on the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix, which offered Herendy with a useful advertising alternative.
The 2025 trophies construct on the porcelain producer’s 200 years of custom, that includes tulips, dianthus (carnation) and pomegranate motifs on the vases for the highest three finishers and plate for the profitable crew. For the primary time this 12 months, a restricted collector’s version of 200 mini helmets shall be bought by the corporate that includes the identical sample from the rostrum trophies.
Zsolt Gyulay, CEO of the Hungarian GP, was additionally readily available for the presentation of the trophies and to announce a number of friends of honor for this 12 months’s race; ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, who was instrumental in bringing Method 1 behind the Iron Curtain for the primary time in 1986, and Thierry Boutsen, winner of the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix.
