2023-07-23 15:15:33
Max Verstappen, solid leader of the Formula 1 World Championship, achieved his seventh consecutive victory on Sunday at the Hungarian GP, Red Bull’s twelfth, thus establishing a new record for a team.
The current two-time world champion beat the British Lando Norris (McLaren) and his teammate, the Mexican Sergio Pérez, second and third respectively.
The seven-time world champion, the British Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who started from pole position for the first time since December 2021, could not stand the push from Verstappen, Norris and Oscar Piastri (McLaren) at the start, and at the end of the first lap he was already fourth classified, a position in which he crossed the finish line.
Verstappen’s victory, the ninth in eleven races held this season, allows the Austrian team, unbeaten since the end of 2022, to add the 12th consecutive victory, thus surpassing McLaren’s record of 1988.
In the drivers’ championship, the Dutchman now has a 110-point lead over his teammate Perez, the only other driver to have won this season (Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan).
What time did the 2023 Hungarian GP start?
The 2023 Hungarian GP race will start at 7:00 a.m. in Mexico and the United States, while in Spain it will start at 3:00 p.m.
Peru, Colombia and Ecuador: 8:00 am Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia and Paraguay: 9:00 am United States (Eastern Time): 9:00 am Argentina and Uruguay: 10:00 am
Where to watch the 2023 Hungarian GP?
These with the TV channels that will show the race from beginning to end at a local and international level. We also leave you the live streaming options that you have available.
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Seventh victory for Max Verstappen? Undisputed leader of the Formula 1 World Championship, the Dutch driver will seek another victory this weekend at the Hungarian Grand Prix, which would mark the 12th consecutive victory for the Red Bull team, a record.
On the narrow track of the Hungaroring, near Budapest, the Formula 1 world is wondering what could stop Red Bull and Verstappen, intractable so far this season.
A rhythm of victories that should not stop in Hungary, where the current constructors’ world champion plans to introduce a series of improvements to the RB19 in order to “be able to achieve additional performance for the coming races”, according to Verstappen himself.
If “Mad Max” or his Mexican teammate Sergio Pérez, winner of the other two races held this year, win on Sunday, it would be the 12th consecutive win for Red Bull, counting Abu Dhabi, the last Grand Prix of 2022 and the ten rounds of 2023 (except San Marino, suspended due to flooding). To achieve it would be a new record in the category.
Verstappen’s victory in Great Britain in July allowed Red Bull to equal McLaren’s record of 11 consecutive wins set in 1988.
“I am not going to race this weekend thinking that we can win twelve consecutive races,” Verstappen warned this Thursday at a press conference.
Behind Red Bull, the fight is very open, with the Spanish Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin trying to maintain their third place in the drivers’ championship and third in the constructors after their great start to the season, although the results have been inferior in recent races.
“Currently we are third and we want to finish second, but we have to be realistic and it will be a tough battle until the end,” Fernando Alonso predicted this Thursday at a press conference.
Before the Hungarian GP, Pérez leads the double Spanish world champion by 19 points, although Alonso only has four units more than Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes).
Hungaroring, however, brings back very fond memories of Alonso, since it was on this track where he achieved his first F1 victory, “exactly 20 years ago now”.
Behind Aston Martin and Mercedes (separated in the teams’ classification by only 22 points in favor of the German brand) McLaren has been stomping, which achieved the first podium of the season at Silverstone thanks to Lando Norris’s second place. And the second driver, Oscar Pastri, finished fourth.
“We are going to try to maintain this momentum and continue to get the most out of” the single-seaters, said the head of the British team Andrea Stella.
However, “the Budapest circuit is very different, with slow corners, so it will be a new challenge (…). We hope to be competitive again.”
The race in Hungary will also be marked by the return to the paddock of one of the most popular drivers on the grid, the Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who will replace Nyck de Vries in AlphaTauri for the remainder of the season, after the poor results of the Dutch driver, who failed to score points in any of the ten races held.
The Australian was left without a driver at the end of last season, in which he finished 11th in the standings in a McLaren.
Ricciardo began this season as a reserve driver for Red Bull, AlphaTauri’s “big brother”, waiting for a new opportunity, which came to him midway through the course.
Returning to the fight for victory, remember that Verstappen won last year at the Hungaroring after starting from 10th place on the grid, ahead of the Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, who holds the record for victories on this track with eight.
The British pilot, seven times world champion, will have a very difficult time adding a new victory in Hungary, where he will seek his first victory since the end of 2021.
World Driver Ranking
1. Max Verstappen – 255 pts
2. Sergio Perez – 156
3. Fernando Alonso – 137
4. Lewis Hamilton – 121
5. Carlos Sainz Jr. – 83
6. George Russell – 82
7. Charles Leclerc – 74
8. Lance Stroll – 44
9. Lando Norris – 42
10. Esteban Ocon – 31
11. Oscar Piastri – 17
12. Pierre Gasly – 16
13. Alexander Albon – 11
14. Nico Hülkenberg – 9
15. Valtteri Bottas – 5
16. Zhou Guanyu – 4
17. Yuki Tsunoda – 2
18. Kevin Magnussen – 2
19. Logan Sargeant – 0
20. Nyck de Vries – 0
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