Though McLaren took a commanding one-two end ultimately Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari achieved the largest step in efficiency in comparison with final yr’s Mogyoród F1 spherical. F1Technical’s senior author Balázs Szabó delivers his newest evaluation.
The Hungarian Grand Prix noticed McLaren dominate proceedings. The Woking-based outfit secured a entrance row lock-out with Lando Norris (1’15”227) on pole forward of team-mate Oscar Piastri by simply 22 thousandths (1’15”249).
On the second row of the grid, we discovered Max Verstappen within the Crimson Bull, third in 1’15”273, simply 46 thousandths of a second slower than Norris, and Carlos Sainz fourth for Ferrari, 469 thousandths down. The quicker Mercedes ended up fifth on the grid with Lewis Hamilton fifth simply fractionally behind Ferrari’s Spanish driver.
The race noticed McLaren carry over its dominant type with Piastri and Norris securing the Woking-headquartered squad’s first one-two end for the reason that 2021 Italian Grand Prix.
Crimson Bull gave the impression to be the second-quickest workforce whereas there was nothing to selected between Mercedes and Ferrari in race trim.
Assessing the enhancements groups have achieved in comparison with final yr’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari stood out because the Scuderia have made enormous inroads when it comes to race tempo.
The Maranello-based discovered 0.67s per lap in comparison with the race tempo it displayed final yr. The SF-24 was significantly robust within the palms of Charles Leclerc, who prolonged his opening stint in an effort to chase an aggressive offset technique.
The Monegasque delivered eye-catching lap time on Pirelli’s hards throughout his second stint, however Ferrari made a mistake by calling him in early for his second cease. The early second cease meant that he couldn’t extract every thing from his comparatively contemporary hards, and was pressured to finish 30 laps on the medium compound throughout his final stint. Extra crucially, he was caught behind Hamilton, that means he couldn’t exploit the height grip of his contemporary mediums.
Commenting on the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari workforce boss Fred Vasseur mentioned that whereas he isn’t fully proud of the fourth and sixth place, he’s delighted with the progress the Scuderia has made in comparison with final yr’s Budapest F1 race.
“We undoubtedly must proceed. I’m not proud of the end result, I are not looking for there to be misunderstandings. I’m not completely happy to be 20 seconds behind somebody, however final yr we had been 65 seconds behind the chief,” the Frenchman concluded.
McLaren discovered the second largest step in comparison with final yr with their race tempo having been 0.59s faster than what they confirmed final yr.
RB was 0.56s per lap faster in 2024 in comparison with final yr. Yuki Tsunoda executed a one-stop technique to fractionally end forward of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll in P9, taking two factors for himself and the Faenza-based outfit. His team-mate Daniel Ricciardo endured a a lot more durable race as he was known as in very early for his first cease which meant that he spent nearly all of the rest of the Hungarian Grand Prix caught behind site visitors.
Two different groups improved their race tempo in comparison with final yr: Haas (0.5s), Mercedes (0.37s). Williams and Aston Martin managed to duplicate what they achieved final yr.
Persevering with their robust season, Kick Sauber was 0.15s per lap slower than final yr.
Crimson Bull endured the largest shock on the Hungaroring. The Milton Keynes-based outfit was 0.21s per lap slower than a yr in the past. It was an enormous setback for Crimson Bull as Max Verstappen completed over half a minute in entrance of Lando Norris final yr, and virtually lapped Charles Leclerc, who completed forward of the Dutchman this yr.
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