What happened at the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix? (2024)

Oracle Red Bull Racing duo Max Verstappen (fifth) and Sergio Pérez (seventh) took top-10 finishes from round 13 of the season in Hungary, where Australian Oscar Piastri secured his maiden F1 victory to become the seventh different winner this season in a 1-2 result with team-mate Lando Norris. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) finished third. Verstappen’s championship lead remains a healthy 76 points with the result, while Pérez surged from 16th on the grid into the points.

* 2024 is the 75th season of the F1 world championship

Verstappen came to Hungary off back-to-back wins in Budapest in 2022 and 2023. Still, the reigning F1 world champion looked to have a bigger battle on his hands than he’s been accustomed to despite qualifying just 0.046s off pole, McLaren’s prodigious pace seeing Norris lead Piastri in a front-row lockout for the team.

The Dutchman passed Norris at Turn 1 off the start but did so while running off track, which saw him hand second position back to the British driver. Verstappen briefly led when both McLarens pitted, but his race became one of fighting for the final podium place with Hamilton, the pair clashing at the first corner with seven laps to go in an incident that saw Verstappen’s RB20 sent briefly skywards.

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) passed Verstappen as he rejoined the track, and he eventually finished 21.349s behind Piastri at the chequered flag after 70 laps.

Pérez’s weekend looked all but over when he crashed in qualifying on Saturday, a slippery kerb after an early-morning rain shower spitting him into the Turn 8 barriers and leaving him in 16th place on the grid.

Employing the hard-compound Pirelli tyres for an opening stint, vaulted him to the fringes of the top 10, and took six world championship points away from Budapest to sit seventh in the standings with 124 points.

Visa CashApp RB consolidated its hard-earned sixth place in the constructors’ championship with two points for Yuki Tsunoda on Sunday in Hungary. The Japanese driver recovering from a crash in qualifying to finish ninth from 10th on the grid, a one-stop strategy proving to be advantageous.

Haas had scored 20 points to RB’s three in the past two races in Austria and Great Britain, but Tsunoda’s points – and 13th and 15th, respectively, for Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen – saw RB’s slim advantage swell to six points.

A promising weekend for Tsunoda’s team-mate Daniel Ricciardo didn’t produce points in Budapest. The Australian falling from ninth on the grid to 11th on the opening lap, and his two-stop strategy leaving him in a midfield stalemate as he finished in 12th.

7: Piastri’s win sees him join Verstappen as one of seven different drivers to taste victory this year, the most in a season since 2012 – and with 11 races still to go.

We need to work. We know we are lacking compared to McLaren and that’s of course not nice, but at the moment in race pace and qualifying pace, we are behind

Max Verstappen

F1 Drivers' Championship top 5

F1 Constructors' Championship top 5

We know the Monaco Grand Prix as the race adjacent to the water, but what about the ‘real’ Monaco race – the one in the water? The RedBull Energy Station (and particularly its pool) has hosted many a team celebration in Monaco, but this year, it was used for something completely different…

Take four F1 drivers (Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez from Oracle RedBull Racing, plus Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo from Visa Cash App RB), have them build miniature DIY rafts, insert dolls that look a bit (emphasis on ‘bit’) like the drivers themselves and… you can probably guess the rest.

Who won the race? Who got wettest? Who adhered the rules and who downright broke them? Watch the video below to find out.

Round 14 (Belgium), July 26-28

Circuit name/location: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot

Length/laps: 7.004km, 44 laps

Grands Prix held/debut: 56, 1950

Most successful driver: Michael Schumacher (six wins)

Most successful team: Ferrari (14 wins)

2023 race recap: 1st: Max Verstappen (Oracle RedBull Racing), 2nd: Sergio Pérez (Oracle RedBull Racing), 3rd: Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

It’s a true game-changer; the RB17 hypercar unveiled by Red Bull Advanced Technologies at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England last weekend. It was a first look that wowed motoring fans at the venerable British event, and was part of a weekend-long celebration of 20 years of Oracle RedBull Racing.

The incredible track car – effectively a two-seater F1 machine – is the brainchild of Oracle RedBull Racing's Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, the most successful designer in Formula One history, and the team at RedBull Advanced Technologies.

Why the RB17? It’s an unused F1 chassis name from 2021 when Max Verstappen raced to his first world title in the revamped RB16B from 2020, the RB17 name never being used after the disruption caused by the global pandemic. RB18 was then used by Verstappen and the team to win the drivers’ and constructors’ titles in 2022

Why the RB17 is so incredible? There are too many ways to describe in one paragraph, but this will set you straight…