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Grand Prix practice results: Bottas fastest in Hungary F1
Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes was fastest in the opening day of Hungarian Grand Prix practice at the Hungaroring on Friday, the 11th round of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship season.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Jul 31, 2021, 7:57 AM
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After the British Grand Prix’s sprint format debut, practice reverted to a pair of one-hour Friday sessions in Budapest.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fastest ahead of Bottas in FP1 but he struggled with his car's balance in FP2, and Bottas led teammate Lewis Hamilton in setting the fastest times of the day overall.
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Hungarian Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Bottas
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 21 1'17.555 203.360 2 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes 26 1'17.616 0.061 0.061 203.200 3 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 25 1'17.722 0.167 0.106 202.923 4 Carlos Sainz Jr.
Ferrari 24 1'18.115 0.560 0.393 201.902 5 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 27 1'18.181 0.626 0.066 201.731 6 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 26 1'18.385 0.830 0.204 201.206 7 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 23 1'18.391 0.836 0.006 201.191 8 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 20 1'18.466 0.911 0.075 200.999 9 Lando Norris
McLaren 26 1'18.649 1.094 0.183 200.531 10 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 25 1'18.755 1.200 0.106 200.261 11 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 26 1'18.765 1.210 0.010 200.236 12 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 18 1'18.770 1.215 0.005 200.223 13 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 22 1'18.989 1.434 0.219 199.668 14 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 27 1'19.265 1.710 0.276 198.973 15 George Russell
Williams 24 1'19.724 2.169 0.459 197.827 16 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 24 1'19.824 2.269 0.100 197.579 17 Mick Schumacher
Haas 26 1'20.383 2.828 0.559 196.205 18 Robert Kubica
Alfa Romeo 23 1'20.639 3.084 0.256 195.582 19 Nikita Mazepin
Haas 23 1'20.992 3.437 0.353 194.730 20 Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo 5 1'21.889 4.334 0.897 192.597 View full results
What happened in Free Practice 1?
Verstappen set the early pace during a long opening run, as Honda checked out his engine that was involved in his 51g accident at Silverstone, working down to 1m19.025s on the hard tyres.
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Mercedes ran the soft tyres relatively early, with Bottas producing 1m17.616s to lead the way. Hamilton got within 0.106s of that for P2 with 20 minutes to go.
The session was then interrupted by Yuki Tsunoda crashing his AlphaTauri at Turn 4, causing a red flag.
At the resumption, Verstappen fitted softs and unleashed a lap of 1m17.555s, beating Bottas by 0.061s. Hamilton was third on 1m17.722s.
Carlos Sainz was best of the rest for Ferrari, over half a second down with a time of 1m18.115s. Pierre Gasly was fifth for AlphaTauri, ahead of Fernando Alonso’s Alpine. The second Ferrari of Charles Leclerc was seventh from Lando Norris (McLaren) and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll.
Hungarian Grand Prix FP2 results: Bottas fastest from Hamilton
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes 29 1'17.012 204.794 2 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes 27 1'17.039 0.027 0.027 204.722 3 Max Verstappen
Red Bull 24 1'17.310 0.298 0.271 204.004 4 Esteban Ocon
Alpine 29 1'17.759 0.747 0.449 202.826 5 Sergio Perez
Red Bull 23 1'17.824 0.812 0.065 202.657 6 Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri 31 1'18.113 1.101 0.289 201.907 7 Fernando Alonso
Alpine 27 1'18.169 1.157 0.056 201.762 8 Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin 31 1'18.228 1.216 0.059 201.610 9 Lando Norris
McLaren 25 1'18.313 1.301 0.085 201.391 10 Lance Stroll
Aston Martin 30 1'18.320 1.308 0.007 201.373 11 Charles Leclerc
Ferrari 30 1'18.370 1.358 0.050 201.245 12 Carlos Sainz Jr.
Ferrari 32 1'18.441 1.429 0.071 201.063 13 Daniel Ricciardo
McLaren 26 1'18.737 1.725 0.296 200.307 14 Kimi Raikkonen
Alfa Romeo 21 1'19.277 2.265 0.540 198.942 15 George Russell
Williams 29 1'19.292 2.280 0.015 198.905 16 Nicholas Latifi
Williams 30 1'19.479 2.467 0.187 198.437 17 Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri 3 1'19.671 2.659 0.192 197.959 18 Mick Schumacher
Haas 29 1'19.817 2.805 0.146 197.597 19 Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo 28 1'20.186 3.174 0.369 196.687 20 Nikita Mazepin
Haas 28 1'21.881 4.869 1.695 192.616 View full results
What happened in Free Practice 2?
In FP2, Bottas set the early pace on mediums at 1m18.376s – 0.046s clear of Verstappen after the first runs, with Hamilton almost half a second slower. After a visit to the pits, Hamilton went for a second run and jumped to the top on 1m18.140s, while Sebastian Vettel got to within 0.088s of the pace using soft tyres on his Aston.
As in FP1, the Mercedes duo again went early to run the softs, with Bottas producing 1m17.012s and Hamilton achieving 1m17.039s, which was 0.027s slower.
Verstappen’s soft run was poor, 0.298s off the pace, and he complained of massive understeer. Teammate Perez, eight-tenths off the pace, was beaten to the fourth-fastest time by Alpine’s Esteban Ocon. Gasly was sixth, ahead of Alonso, Vettel, Norris and Stroll.
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