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2022 Hungarian Grand Prix

The 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Aramco Magyar Nagydíj 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 31 July 2022 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary over a distance of 70 laps. The race was the thirty-seventh Hungarian Grand Prix to be held as part of the Formula One World Championship.

2022 Hungarian Grand Prix
Race 13 of 22 in the 2022 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Hungaroring
Layout of the Hungaroring
Race details
Date 31 July 2022
Official name Formula 1 Aramco Magyar Nagydíj 2022
Location Hungaroring
Mogyoród, Hungary
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.381 km (2.722 miles)
Distance 70 laps, 306.630 km (190.531 miles)
Weather Overcast with drizzle throughout, light rain at the end
Attendance 290,000[1]
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:17.377
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time 1:21.386 on lap 57
Podium
First
Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Second
Mercedes
Third
Mercedes
Lap leaders

The race was won by Max Verstappen from the 10th position on the starting grid, while Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished second and third respectively, with Russell having started from pole position. Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc both started strongly but could not hold up until the end of the race, finishing fourth and sixth respectively. Championship leader Verstappen extended his lead over Leclerc to 80 points.

Background

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The event was held across the weekend of the 29–31 July. It was the thirteenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship.

Championship standings before the race

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Max Verstappen led the Drivers' Championship by 63 points from Charles Leclerc, with Sergio Pérez third, a further 7 points behind. Red Bull Racing led the Constructors' Championship, leading Ferrari by 82 points and Mercedes by 126 points.[2]

Entrants

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See also: 2022 Formula One World Championship § Entries

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race.[3] Robert Kubica drove for Alfa Romeo in place of Valtteri Bottas during the first practice session.[4]

Tyre choices

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Further information: Formula One tyres

Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C2, C3, and C4 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively) for teams to use at the event.[5]

Practice

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The first practice session took place at 14:00 local time (UTC+02:00) on 29 July 2022.[6] Carlos Sainz Jr. was quickest, with Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc in second and third respectively. The second practice session took part on the same day at 17:00 local time. Leclerc was quickest, with Lando Norris and Sainz in second and third respectively. The third practice session started at 13:00 on 30 July 2022.[6] Sebastian Vettel crashed out at turn 10, causing a red flag. Once the session restarted, Nicholas Latifi went fastest, with Leclerc and Alexander Albon in second and third respectively.[7]

Qualifying

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Qualifying took place at 16:00 local time (UTC+02:00) on 30 July 2022, and lasted for one hour.[6] The qualifying session was held in dry but overcast conditions throughout.

The first part of qualifying (Q1) saw the bottom five drivers eliminated from the rest of the session. Nicholas Latifi was knocked out in Q1 and qualified 20th and last having made a mistake at the final corner on his final attempt in Q1.[8] Yuki Tsunoda, Alexander Albon, Sebastian Vettel, Pierre Gasly and Latifi were eliminated.

The second part of qualifying (Q2) saw the bottom five drivers eliminated from the rest of the session. Sergio Pérez had a lap time, that was initially deleted for a track limits infringement, before being reinstated after further inspection, with the FIA deeming that he did not violate track limits.[9] Pérez, Zhou Guanyu, Magnussen, Lance Stroll and Mick Schumacher were eliminated. Pérez blamed Magnussen for blocking his final attempt, arguing that he would have progressed had Magnussen not blocked him.[10]

The third part of qualifying (Q3) was a ten-car shoot-out for pole position. After everyone's initial runs, Carlos Sainz Jr. was on provisional pole, with George Russell and Charles Leclerc in second and third. Championship leader, Max Verstappen, locked up on his lap, so he only managed to be seventh. All cars then attempted another, final, lap to challenge for pole position, although Verstappen had power unit problems,[11] which meant he was unable to set a representative lap; he qualified tenth. Russell, competing for Mercedes, took his maiden pole position of his Formula One career,[12] he had previously twice qualified second. His pole was also the first pole for Mercedes in 2022.[13][14] Ferrari drivers Sainz and Leclerc were second and third respectively, with Lando Norris in fourth and Esteban Ocon in fifth.[15] Russell's teammate, Lewis Hamilton, had a DRS issue, coting his time and resulting in him qualifying seventh,[16] eight-tenths from pole.

Post qualifying

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Following the session Verstappen, Pérez and Gasly were critical of the stewards' handling of track limit violations.[17][18] Williams were fined €1,000 after they were found to have used a set of soft tyres in Q1 on the car of Albon which the team had already electronically returned—which is illegal under the sporting regulations. The stewards chose not to impose a sporting penalty after accepting that no unfair sporting advantage had been gained by using these tyres and that the rule breach was purely an administrative error.[19]

Qualifying classification

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Pos. No. Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 63   George Russell Mercedes 1:18.407 1:18.154 1:17.377 1
2 55   Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 1:18.434 1:17.946 1:17.421 2
3 16   Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:18.806 1:17.768 1:17.567 3
4 4   Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 1:18.653 1:18.121 1:17.769 4
5 31   Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 1:18.866 1:18.216 1:18.018 5
6 14   Fernando Alonso Alpine-Renault 1:18.716 1:17.904 1:18.078 6
7 44   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:18.374 1:18.035 1:18.142 7
8 77   Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:18.935 1:18.445 1:18.157 8
9 3   Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes 1:18.775 1:18.198 1:18.379 9
10 1   Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-RBPT 1:18.509 1:17.703 1:18.823 10
11 11   Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-RBPT 1:19.118 1:18.516 N/A 11
12 24   Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:18.973 1:18.573 N/A 12
13 20   Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:18.993 1:18.825 N/A 13
14 18   Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 1:19.205 1:19.137 N/A 14
15 47   Mick Schumacher Haas-Ferrari 1:19.164 1:19.202 N/A 15
16 22   Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-RBPT 1:19.240 N/A N/A 16
17 23   Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes 1:19.256 N/A N/A 17
18 5   Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 1:19.273 N/A N/A 18
19 10   Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-RBPT 1:19.527 N/A N/A PL1
20 6   Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 1:19.570 N/A N/A 19
107% time: 1:23.860
Source:[15][20]
  • ^1 – Pierre Gasly qualified 19th, but he was required to start the race from the back of the grid for exceeding his quota of power unit elements. The new power unit elements were changed while the car was under parc fermé without the permission of the technical delegate. He was then required to start the race from the pit lane.[21]

Race

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The race started at 15:00 local time (UTC+02:00) on 31 July 2022, and lasted for 70 laps.[6] George Russell kept first place into turn one, from Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc.[22] Further back, Esteban Ocon defended from his Alpine teammate, Fernando Alonso, who later complained about Ocon's defence on the team radio.[23] Contact between Lance Stroll and Alexander Albon meant the latter had to pit to replace a damaged front wing.[24] Kevin Magnussen was forced to pit after he was shown the black and orange flag, due to damage to the right side of his front wing.[25] The virtual safety car (VSC) was called out to pick up debris caused by the collisions. Once the VSC ended, Russell immediately pulled a 2.5 second gap to Sainz. With the help of DRS, Max Verstappen made his way through the grid, overtaking his teammate, both Alpine cars and Lando Norris, before pitting and undercutting Lewis Hamilton. Russell and Sainz both had slow pit stops, which allowed Leclerc to overcut Sainz and close up to Russell, later overtaking him into turn one. Verstappen then closed the gap to Russell and Sainz, as Leclerc extended his lead at the front.

Verstappen pitted again, with Russell and Leclerc making reactionary pitstops. Verstappen undercut Russell, while Leclerc pit onto the slower hard tyres. Verstappen overtook Leclerc into turn one and proceeded to give the lead back after spinning at turn 13 on lap 41. He re-overtook Leclerc.[26] Sainz and Hamilton pitted onto the soft compound tyres, which elevated Verstappen into first. Russell overtook Leclerc, which prompted him to pit and change onto the soft tyres. Hamilton chased down Sainz and Russell, overtaking them both before the end of the race, promoting himself into second.

Yuki Tsunoda spun, causing a brief yellow flag.[27] Stroll attempted to overtake Daniel Ricciardo, Ricciardo locked up and hit Stroll, causing the latter to spin.[28] Neither driver received damage and both carried on whilst Ricciardo was given a five-second time penalty for causing the collision.[29] Valtteri Bottas had a power unit issue on lap 66, leading to his retirement and the second VSC of the race.[30] As the VSC ended, the rain replaced the light drizzle that had been present throughout the race and DRS was disabled on the last lap; all drivers managed to reach the finish without changing onto wet weather tyres.

Verstappen won the race, Hamilton (who set the fastest lap on lap 57) and Russell finishing second and third respectively,[31][32] leading to Mercedes' second consecutive double podium. Sainz finished fourth.[33] Sergio Pérez was fifth,[34] and Leclerc sixth.[33] Norris finished seventh,[35] ahead of the Alpines of Alonso and Ocon who finished eighth and ninth respectively. Sebastian Vettel finished tenth and was the last of the points finishers.[36]

Post race

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Ferrari was criticised by media for their decision to place the hard tyres onto Leclerc's car, despite the obvious pace loss shown by the Alpine drivers earlier in the race. Former Formula One driver, Anthony Davidson, said that "improvement[s] need to be made" in reference to Ferrari's strategy,[37] while Sky Sports pundit Ted Kravitz claimed the strategy was "baffling".[38] Mattia Binotto defended his team, attributing the finishing position to the lack of pace rather than the tyres.[39] Leclerc later admitted the strategy was a "disaster".[40] Leclerc's teammate Carlos Sainz agreed with team principal's defence, noting that he himself was unable to finish on the podium despite using the strategy most pundits state should have been used for Leclerc.[39] Reporter Alex Mitton called the Ferrari strategy team the "worst",[41] while commentator Alex Brundle exclaimed the hard tyres made "no sense".[42]

Race classification

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Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1   Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-RBPT 70 1:39:35.912 10 25
2 44   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 70 +7.834 7 191
3 63   George Russell Mercedes 70 +12.337 1 15
4 55   Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 70 +14.579 2 12
5 11   Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-RBPT 70 +15.688 11 10
6 16   Charles Leclerc Ferrari 70 +16.047 3 8
7 4   Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 70 +1:18.300 4 6
8 14   Fernando Alonso Alpine-Renault 69 +1 lap 6 4
9 31   Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 69 +1 lap 5 2
10 5   Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 18 1
11 18   Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 14
12 10   Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-RBPT 69 +1 lap PL
13 24   Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 12
14 47   Mick Schumacher Haas-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 15
15 3   Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes 69 +1 lap2 9
16 20   Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 13
17 23   Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 17
18 6   Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 69 +1 lap 19
19 22   Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-RBPT 68 +2 laps 16
203 77   Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 65 Fuel System 8
Fastest lap:   Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – 1:21.386 (lap 57)
Source:[20][36][43][failed verification]

Notes

Championship standings after the race

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

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References

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