F1 Madness

The grand prix before Formula 1 takes a break always draws plenty of excitement. The Hungarian Grand Prix always manages to throw in a twist in the tail for the Formula 1 season. It’s not the most exciting of races as the nature of the track makes overtaking quite a challenge. Most of the overtakes […]

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Less than seven days later the Formula 1 paddock descends on the city of Budapest for the Hungarian GP. Technical in nature the 4.381 km circuit will require high downforce, efficient cooling and most importantly a good qualifying performance. The Hungaroring is often referred to as Monaco without the barriers because of its tricky layout […]

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McLaren have said that they believe their 2012 car ‘overperformed’ towards the end of last season. Team Principal Martin Whitmarsh said that the the 2012 McLaren out delivered what the team expected from data compiled through its wind tunnel model. Meaning that the 2012 car was better than its smaller scale wind tunnel counterpart. A slight difference in correlation between the full scale […]

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The second free practice session for Sunday’s Hungarian GP was headed by Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. An incident free second free practice session was run in scorching conditions around the Hungaroring this afternoon. The track temperature reached a high of 45 degrees celcius and the Red Bulls’ pace was just as hot. […]

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Pirelli will introduce completely new tyres for the 2013 Hungarian grand prix. The announcement comes after the Italian tyre manufacturer was put in the spotlight with several tyre failures during the Silverstone grand prix. The all new tyres, which will feature 2012 construction combined with 2013 compounds, will be introduced for Hungarian grand prix. These new tyres […]

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Every single race since Kimi Raikkonen’s return to Formula 1 has had a point – literally. Raikkonen returned to Formula 1 last year with the Lotus F1 team and has not been out of the points scoring position since the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix where the Finn took second place – twenty three races in total. As […]

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