Taking place at the height of the European summer, the Hungaroring has been on the Formula 1 calendar in every season since 1986. The 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix is the last race before the summer break, taking place on August 3.
1139th F1 GRAND PRIX | 41st HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX | 40th GRAND PRIX AT THE HUNGARORING
2024 POLESITTER: LANDO NORRIS | 2024 WINNER: OSCAR PIASTRI
2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX: WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday August 1
Free Practice 1 – 1:30pm Local Time / 12:30pm UK Time
Free Practice 2 – 5:00pm Local Time / 4:00pm UK Time
Saturday August 2
Free Practice 3 – 12:30pm Local Time / 11:30am UK Time
Qualifying – 4:00pm Local Time / 3:00pm UK Time
Sunday August 3
The 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix – 3:00pm Local Time / 2:00pm UK Time
2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX: WEEKEND MILESTONES
Victory for Max Verstappen at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix would see him become the fourth driver – after Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to record as many as three wins at the Hungaroring.
Ferrari have the most podiums of any team at the Hungaroring, with 26, but their record could be equalled or overtaken at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix by McLaren, who have 25 top three results at the track to date.
If Lewis Hamilton leads 13 laps of the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix, he will become the first driver to have led 500 laps at a single circuit in F1 history.
Mercedes and McLaren are currently tied as the teams with the most pole positions at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with nine apiece. Either team could become the first to reach ten poles here at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix, while Ferrari could equal the existing record.
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WHAT HAS CHANGED AT THE CIRCUIT SINCE LAST YEAR?
Changes to the circuit since last year’s race will be posted here.
HOW MANY DRS ZONES WILL THERE BE AT THE 2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX?
It’s yet to be announced how many DRS zones there will be at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix. Last year, there were two DRS zones. The detection point was before the final corner, while the activation zones were on the main straight and between Turns 1 & 2.
HUNGARORING TRACK GUIDE
When F1 arrives in Hungary, there’s usually an end of term feeling as the Hungaroring hosts the final race before the summer break. Held at the height of the European summer, this relatively slow but technical track has served up some intriguing races for the past three decades.
The Hungaroring is located twelve miles to the north-east of Budapest. After plans for a race in Moscow fell through, Bernie Ecclestone brought the series to Budapest instead and the race made history by being the first to be held behind the Iron Curtain. A city street race was mooted but the communist government instead wanted a new track, and so one was built within eight months. The circuit was designed by Istvan Papp.
The winner of the first ever Grand Prix in 1906 was the Hungarian driver Ferenc Szisz. Hungary’s motorsport history goes back to 1936, when a Hungarian Grand Prix was first held in Nepliget. It had 100,000 spectators, which is an impressive figure for that time. With the onset of World War II, focus shifted away from racing, and there was not another Hungarian Grand Prix until F1 came to Budapest in 1986. The inaugural event was attended by 200,000 fans.
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WHO WILL BE IN THE 2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX PRESS CONFERENCES?
The world’s media will have the opportunity to talk to the drivers ahead of the on-track action. The drivers appearing in the press conference for this race are yet to be announced.
The media will also be talking to prominent members of Formula 1’s teams in a separate press conference over the race weekend. The team members appearing in the press conference are yet to be announced.
WHO WILL BE THE RACE DIRECTOR AT THE 2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX?
Rui Marques will be the race director at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix.
WHO WILL BE THE DRIVER STEWARD AT THE 2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX?
Each weekend a former Formula 1 driver, or a driver from another prominent series of motorsport, joins the stewards to help judge any incidents from a drivers’ perspective. The Driver Steward this weekend is yet to be announced.
WHICH TYRE COMPOUNDS WILL BE USED AT THE 2025 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX?
Pirelli have not yet announced which tyre compounds will be used at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix. The C3, C4 and C5 compounds were used in 2024.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME AT THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX?
In McLaren’s first 1-2 result since 2021, Piastri became a Grand Prix winner at the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix, where team radio discussions were the talk of the afternoon.
After topping the timesheet in the last two practice sessions, Lando Norris secured pole position for the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix. Sergio Perez crashed out in Q1 for the second race weekend running and started well down the order, while George Russell was a surprise name to exit in the first stage of qualifying. It was an action-packed hour, in which Yuki Tsunoda crashed out in Q3, bringing an early end to the competitive action.
McLaren locked out the front row for the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix and at Turn 1 the top three starters – Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen – went side by side. The three escaped unscathed, with Piastri taking the lead and Verstappen running off track and rejoining ahead of Norris. Verstappen allowed the McLaren back by on Lap 4.
Hamilton, running fourth, was first of the frontrunners to pit on Lap 17 – and moved ahead of Verstappen as a result of the undercut when the Red Bull driver pitted on Lap 22. The two battled over third position as the race reached the halfway mark before Hamilton pitted for a second time on Lap 41.
While the undercut proved effective, Norris pitted before his race-leading team-mate. When Piastri pitted two laps later, the McLarens had swapped positions, with Norris assuming the net lead. There followed some awkward team radio discussions, in which Norris was instructed to allow Piastri to re-pass. After plenty of back and forth, Norris finally moved aside two laps from the end.
Awkward radio discussions were the order of the day, as Verstappen and his race engineer had a public disagreement over their race strategy, with the three-time champion branded “childish” by his team. Verstappen and Hamilton resumed their battle for third place on Lap 63 but the duo made contact in a clumsy move, which saw the Red Bull launch into the air slightly.
Piastri became Formula 1’s newest winner in McLaren’s first 1-2 result since 2021. Hamilton took the final position on the podium – the 200th of his career – while Charles Leclerc finished ahead of Verstappen.
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