ANALYSIS: Red Bull endured shocking setback in Hungary, Ferrari achieved the biggest gain compared to last year

Although McLaren took a commanding one-two end at last Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari achieved the biggest step in efficiency compared to last year’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 in the Red 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 kind with Piastri and Norris securing the Woking-headquartered squad’s first one-two end since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.

Red Bull appeared 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 compared to last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari stood out as the Scuderia have made big inroads in phrases of race tempo.

As seen on the diagram offered by Formula Data Analysis, the Maranello-based discovered 0.67s per lap compared to the race tempo it displayed last year. The SF-24 was notably robust in the palms of Charles Leclerc, who prolonged his opening stint in order to chase an aggressive offset technique.

The Monegasque delivered eye-catching lap occasions 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 little thing from his comparatively contemporary hards, and was compelled to full 30 laps on the medium compound throughout his last stint. More crucially, he was caught behind Hamilton, which means he couldn’t exploit the peak grip of his contemporary mediums.

Commenting on the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari workforce boss Fred Vasseur mentioned that whereas he was not utterly proud of the fourth and sixth place, he was delighted with the progress the Scuderia has made compared to last year’s Budapest F1 race.

“We undoubtedly have to proceed. I’m not proud of the outcome, I are not looking for there to be misunderstandings. I’m not completely happy to be 20 seconds behind somebody, however last year we have been 65 seconds behind the chief,” the Frenchman concluded.

McLaren discovered the second biggest step compared to last year with their race tempo having been 0.59s faster than what they confirmed last year.

RB was 0.56s per lap faster in 2024 compared to last year. Yuki Tsunoda executed a one-stop technique in good trend 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 racein Mogyoród as he was referred to as in very early for his first cease which meant that he spent the majority of the the rest of the Hungarian Grand Prix caught behind site visitors.

Two different groups improved their race tempo compared to last year: Haas (0.5s), Mercedes (0.37s). Williams and Aston Martin managed to replicate what they achieved last year.

Continuing their robust season, Kick Sauber was 0.15s per lap slower than last year.

Red Bull endured the biggest shock at the Hungaroring. The Milton Keynes-based outfit was 0.21s per lap slower than a year in the past. It was an enormous setback for Red Bull as Max Verstappen completed over half a minute in entrance of Lando Norris last year, and nearly lapped Charles Leclerc, who completed forward of the Dutchman this year.