2021 Hungarian Grand Prix

2021 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Hungaroring
Race Details
Date	August 1, 2021
Race Number	1046
Official Name	Formula 1 Rolex Magyar Nagydíj 2021
Location	Hungaroring Mogyoród, Hungary
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.381 km (2.722 mi)
Distance	70 laps, 306.67 km (190.556 mi)
Pole Position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time	1:15.419
Fastest Lap
Driver	Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-Honda
Time	1:18.394 on lap 70
Podium
First	Esteban Ocon
Second	Lewis Hamilton
Third	Carlos Sainz, Jr.
Lap Leaders

The 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, (officially the Formula 1 Rolex Magyar Nagydíj 2021) was the eleventh round of the 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship, held at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary on August 1 2021.

Lewis Hamilton took pole position and as he led out of Turn 1 at the start, chaos unfolded behind him due to the wet conditions. Valtteri Bottas collided into Lando Norris, who in turn collided into Max Verstappen, before collecting Sergio Pérez as well. Charles Leclerc tangled Daniel Ricciardo, due to being punted by Lance Stroll, the. With many debris strewn on the track, the red flag was called out.

At the red flag restart, everyone except Hamilton dived to change into dry tires as the track was drying. Hamilton took off alone from the grid and pitted after the lights went out, dropping to last, but recovered to finish third, battling Fernando Alonso in the closing stages. Esteban Ocon meanwhile led until the checkered flag to take his maiden race victory, ahead of Sebastian Vettel. Williams also managed to pick up their first points since 2019, while Verstappen, still with car damage, limped in the final points-paying position.

Hours after the race, Sebastian Vettel was disqualified from second place for failing to provide the stewards with the required 1-liter fuel sample at the end of the race.

Background

Much of the pre-race build-up focused on the Lap 1 incident at Silverstone, where title rivals Hamilton and Verstappen made contact at the Copse corner, sending the Dutchman into the barriers at high speed. Hamilton was then given a 10-second penalty, but yet recovered to win the race, as a result narrowing the drivers' championship lead as well as narrowing Mercedes' lead in the Constructors' championship. Red Bull were the most vocal on the incident, with team principal Christian Horner criticizing Hamilton's actions and advisor Helmut Marko calling for a race ban for the seven-time champion, but Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff claimed otherwise, with several drivers stating it was merely a racing incident. A meeting was held between representatives from FIA, Red Bull and Mercedes on Thursday before the race, requested by Red Bull to review the incident in the hopes Hamilton could be handed a harsher penalty. The request however, was rejected, as the FIA deemed that the new elements provided by Red Bull were neither significant nor relevant to the matter.

With time running out for Mercedes' second seat, Wolff has also assured that he would assist Bottas whenever he can if Bottas gets dropped at the end of the season.

Entry List

The full entry list for the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix is outlined below:

No.	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Model	Tyre
3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren F1 Team	McLaren	MCL35M	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
4	Lando Norris	McLaren F1 Team	McLaren	MCL35M	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team	Aston Martin	AMR21	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams Racing	Williams	FW43B	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN	Alfa Romeo	C41	Ferrari	065/6 1.6L V6t	P
9	Nikita Mazepin	Uralkali Haas F1 Team	Haas	VF-21	Ferrari	065/6 1.6L V6t	P
10	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda	AlphaTauri	AT02	Honda	RA621H 1.6L V6t	P
11	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull Racing Honda	Red Bull	RB16B	Honda	RA621H 1.6L V6t	P
14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine F1 Team	Alpine	A521	Renault	E-Tech 21 1.6L V6t	P
16	Charles Leclerc	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	SF21	Ferrari	065/6 1.6L V6t	P
18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team	Aston Martin	AMR21	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
22	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda	AlphaTauri	AT02	Honda	RA621H 1.6L V6t	P
31	Esteban Ocon	Alpine F1 Team	Alpine	A521	Renault	E-Tech 21 1.6L V6t	P
33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing Honda	Red Bull	RB16B	Honda	RA621H 1.6L V6t	P
44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	F1 W12	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
47	Mick Schumacher	Uralkali Haas F1 Team	Haas	VF-21	Ferrari	065/6 1.6L V6t	P
55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	SF21	Ferrari	065/6 1.6L V6t	P
63	George Russell	Williams Racing	Williams	FW43B	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	F1 W12	Mercedes	M12 1.6L V6t	P
99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN	Alfa Romeo	C41	Ferrari	065/6 1.6L V6t	P
Test Drivers for Practice Sessions Only
88	Robert Kubica	Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN	Alfa Romeo	C41	Ferrari	065/6 1.6 V6t	P
Source:

Practice Overview

The full practice results for the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix are outlined below:

No.	Driver	Team	FP1		FP2		FP3
			Time	Pos	Time	Pos	Time	Pos
3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	1:19.265	14	1:18.737	13	1:17.942	8
4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	1:18.649	9	1:18.313	9	1:17.772	6
5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1:18.989	13	1:18.228	8	1:18.235	13
6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes	1:19.824	16	1:19.479	16	1:18.821	17
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	DNP		1:19.277	14	1:18.683	15
9	Nikita Mazepin	Haas-Ferrari	1:20.992	19	1:21.881	20	1:19.933	20
10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Honda	1:18.181	5	1:18.113	6	1:18.115	11
11	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull Racing-Honda	1:18.466	8	1:17.824	5	1:17.917	7
14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault	1:18.385	6	1:18.169	7	1:17.992	9
16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:18.391	7	1:18.370	11	1:17.520	5
18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1:18.755	10	1:18.320	10	1:18.050	10
22	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Honda	1:18.770	12	1:19.671	17	1:18.461	14
31	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault	1:18.765	11	1:17.759	4	1:18.174	12
33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	1:17.555	1	1:17.310	3	1:16.914	2
44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:17.722	3	1:17.039	2	1:16.826	1
47	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	1:20.383	17	1:19.817	18	1:19.406	19
55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	Ferrari	1:18.115	4	1:18.441	12	1:17.497	4
63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1:19.724	15	1:19.292	15	1:18.794	16
77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:17.616	2	1:17.012	1	1:17.055	3
88	Robert Kubica	Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN	1:20.639	18	DNP		DNP
99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1:21.889	20	1:20.186	19	1:19.113	18
Source:

Qualifying

Q1

Eliminated in Q1 were Tsunoda, Russell, Latifi, Mazepin and Schumacher, who was unable to set a time due to his car being repaired following his crash in FP3. For the first time in the season, Russell failed to progress into Q2.

Q2

Sainz spun and crashed his car heavily at the last corner with seven minutes of the session remaining while on a flying lap. He was eliminated out of Q2 with Ricciardo, Stroll, Raikkonen and Giovinazzi.

Q3

Both Mercedes drivers put times fast enough for them to secure a front row lockout, with Verstappen in third. On their final runs, Pérez, who was fourth fastest, missed out on starting his final flying lap. Hamilton did not improve on his final run, while Verstappen only improved slightly but unable to beat Bottas.

Qualifying Results

The full qualifying results for the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix are outlined below:

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team		Q1			Q2			Q3		Grid
					Pos.	Time		Pos.	Time		Pos.	Time
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		2	1:16.424		6	1:16.553		1	1:15.419	1
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes		3	1:16.569		8	1:16.702		2	1:15.734	2
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda		1	1:16.214		1	1:15.650		3	1:15.840	3
4	11	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull Racing-Honda		11	1:17.233		4	1:16.443		4	1:16.421	4
5	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Honda		5	1:16.874		3	1:16.394		5	1:16.483	5
6	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes		7	1:17.081		2	1:16.385		6	1:16.489	6
7	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari		8	1:17.084		7	1:16.574		7	1:16.496	7
8	31	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault		12	1:17.367		9	1:16.766		8	1:16.653	8
9	14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault		10	1:17.123		5	1:16.541		9	1:16.715	9
10	5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes		9	1:17.105		10	1:16.794		10	1:16.750	10
11	3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes		14	1:17.664		11	1:16.871				11
12	18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes		6	1:17.038		12	1:16.893				12
13	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari		13	1:17.553		13	1:17.564				13
14	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari		15	1:17.776		14	1:17.583				14
15	55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	Ferrari		4	1:16.649		NC*	—				15
16	22	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Honda		16	1:17.919							16
17	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes		17	1:17.944							17
18	6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes		18	1:18.036							18
19	9	Nikita Mazepin	Haas-Ferrari		19	1:18.922							19
107% Time: 1:21.549
NC	47	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari		NC	—							20†
Source:

• Bold indicates the fastest driver's time in each session.
• * Sainz did not set a time after crashing out in Q2 on his initial run.
• ^† Schumacher did not set a time following repairs done to his car after his accident in FP3. He was permitted to start the race at the stewards' discretion. He also received a 5-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change. This made no difference as he was already due to start at the back of the grid.

Grid

The starting grid of the feature race of the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix is outined below:

Show Grid

	Pos.	Pos.
	Driver	Driver
	______________
Row 1	1	______________
	Lewis Hamilton	2
	______________	Valtteri Bottas
Row 2	3	______________
	Max Verstappen	4
	______________	Sergio Pérez
Row 3	5	______________
	Pierre Gasly	6
	______________	Lando Norris
Row 4	7	______________
	Charles Leclerc	8
	______________	Esteban Ocon
Row 5	9	______________
	Fernando Alonso	10
	______________	Sebastian Vettel
Row 6	11	______________
	Daniel Ricciardo	12
	______________	Lance Stroll
Row 7	13	______________
	Kimi Räikkönen	14
	______________	Antonio Giovinazzi
Row 8	15	______________
	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	16
	______________	Yuki Tsunoda
Row 9	17	______________
	George Russell	18
	______________	Nicholas Latifi
Row 10	19	______________
	Nikita Mazepin	20
	______________	Mick Schumacher

Race

Report

The race started at wet conditions, with the entirety of the field starting on intermediates. At the end of the formation lap, Giovinazzi pitted for a gamble on dry tires. At the start, Hamilton and Verstappen made good getaways, but Bottas started poorly, then misjudged his braking into the first corner, ramming into Norris who in turn slammed into Verstappen. As Bottas slid into the barriers with suspension damage, he also collected Perez, the Mexican continuing on before being forced to stop halfway on the lap from a suspected broken engine. Bottas hence picked up a 5-place grid penalty for the next race for causing the mayhem. Meanwhile, Stroll collided into Leclerc, who in turn tangled Ricciardo, the former two retiring on the spot while the Aussie continued. Stroll was thus given the same punishment as Bottas for the next race. Norris and Verstappen pitted for component changes, during which Verstappen lost part of his car's bodywork on pit exit. With Turn 1 littered with debris, the safety car was called out, before the red flag was thrown out the following lap to clear the mess. McLaren determined that Norris' car was too damaged to continue and hence retired him, ending his consecutive points-finishing streak.

By the time the mess had been cleared, the weather had improved. On the formation lap restart, all drivers except Hamilton dived into the pits for dry tires, leaving Hamilton alone on the grid. Hamilton had to struggle for one lap on intermediate tires on a dry circuit before stopping, dropping down to last, which promoted Russell into the lead. Russell was ordered to concede several positions due to an infringement, hence running in 7^th, promoting Ocon into the lead, Vettel into second and Latifi into 3rd, and encouraging scene for Williams. Meanwhile, Mazepin would retire after his suspension was damaged from contact with Raikkonen who was exiting from the pit lane, the Iceman would receive a 10-second time penalty for the incident. More bad luck came for Alfa Romeo, as Giovinazzi was given a stop-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane.

As Ocon tried extending his advantage from Vettel at front, Verstappen was all over the Haas of Schumacher for tenth, a small delight for the American outfit following Mazepin's retirement. It took for a couple of laps for the Dutchman to get past Schumacher, despite struggling with a damaged bargeboard and making slight contact as he completed the move. Hamilton meanwhile had also passed Giovinazzi before, and once Verstappen disposed of Schumacher, the German fell behind Giovinazzi and Hamilton as well, all gaining a place ahead as Raikkonen pitted and served his penalty at the same time.

When the round of pit stops began, Hamilton pitted on Lap 20 for hard tires, before Verstappen and Ricciardo did a lap later, but the seven-time champion's pace meant that he undercut and got ahead of both former Red Bull team-mates after their stops. With fresher tires, and with those ahead making stops, Hamilton was able to put in a string of fastest laps, ultimately running in fifth after clearing Tsunoda. Sainz also undercut Latifi and Tsunoda, putting him in third behind the leading pair of Ocon and Vettel.

Vettel pitted for mediums on Lap 36, but a slower stop for him meant that Ocon was still able to stay ahead of the four-time champion after a fast stop from him on the following lap, at the same time promoting Alonso into the lead. Alonso would stop on Lap 40, and come out behind Sainz and Hamilton. The two-time champion began reeling into Hamilton as he was unable to find a way past Sainz. Hamilton would make a second stop on Lap 48, and then charge to the rear of Alonso. For the next few laps, Alonso defended brilliantly from his former McLaren team-mate. His defense ended on the 65^th lap, after locking up on Turn 1 and allowing Hamilton through, and eventually dispatching Sainz a couple of laps later. Verstappen, meanwhile, was able to clear his former Red Bull team-mate Ricciardo for 10^th after staying behind him for a long time.

Despite the charging, Vettel was unable to get past Ocon, hence the Frenchman took to the checkered flag for the first time in his career, ahead of Vettel and a still-charging Hamilton. The two Spaniards Sainz and Alonso would come up to the line next, then Gasly, who took the fastest lap accolade, and completing the points were Tsunoda, Latifi, Russell and Verstappen, a huge delight for the Grove-based team for finally scoring their first points since a pointless 2020 season, with Russell defending from Verstappen until the end.

Post-race, Vettel was found to have not provided enough post-race fuel sample for the stewards, thus he was subsequently disqualified, promoting Hamilton into second place and Sainz onto the podium, while Raikkonen was promoted into the points behind Verstappen. Vettel was earlier reprimanded along with Bottas, Stroll and Sainz for a pre-race ceremony infringement.

Results

The full results for the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix are outlined below:

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault	70	2:04:43.199	8	25
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	70	+2.736	1	18
3	55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	Ferrari	70	+15.018	15	15
4	14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault	70	+15.651	9	12
5	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Honda	70	+1:03.614	5	11FL
6	22	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Honda	70	+1:15.803	16	8
7	6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes	70	+1:17.910	18	6
8	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	70	+1:19.094	17	4
9	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	70	+1:20.244	3	2
10	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	13	1
11	3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	69	+1 lap	11
12	47	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	20
13	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	PL*
Ret	9	Nikita Mazepin	Haas-Ferrari	3	Collision	19
Ret	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	0	Collision damage	6
Ret	11	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull Racing-Honda	0	Collision	4
Ret	18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	0	Collision	12
Ret	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	0	Collision	7
Ret	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	0	Collision	2
DSQ	5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	70	Fuel sample†	10
Source:

• * Giovinazzi started from the pit lane after pitting during the formation lap.
• ^† Vettel originally finished second, but was later disqualified after the required fuel sample could not be extracted from his car.

Milestones

• 101st pole position for Lewis Hamilton.
  • Hamilton ties the record for most poles at a single circuit with eight (along with Michael Schumacher at Suzuka, Ayrton Senna at Imola and his own record at Melbourne)
• Maiden race victory and first laps in the lead for Esteban Ocon.
  • Ocon becomes the 111^th different grand prix winner. He is the first French driver to win in a French car with a French engine since Alain Prost’s victory for Renault in the 1983 Austrian Grand Prix, and the 14^th overall French driver to win.
• First laps in the lead for Fernando Alonso since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix.
  • This breaks the record for the longest interval between races led.
• First race victory for Alpine, and their first win since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix and first podium since the 2013 United States Grand Prix under previous guises as Lotus-Renault.
  • This is their 50^th win since their initial appearance as Toleman.
• Third fastest lap for Pierre Gasly.
• Second fastest lap for AlphaTauri, including their previous guise as Toro Rosso.
• Maiden points for Nicholas Latifi.
• Maiden points for George Russell in Williams.
• Williams' first points since the 2019 German Grand Prix, and their first double points finish since the 2018 Italian Grand Prix.

Standings

The dramatic race, finish and the post-race ruling resulted in Hamilton and Mercedes reclaiming the drivers' and constructors' championship lead respectively heading into the summer break, Hamilton leading from Verstappen by eight points, while Mercedes led ahead by 12 points. The contenders for third place remained in the drivers' standings due to their failure to score, while Sainz moved past Leclerc by three points. McLaren's failure to score allowed Ferrari to come level yet get ahead by countback in the constructors', due to having set two pole positions earlier in the season. Gasly tied with Ricciardo for points, but placed ahead by countback due to the Frenchman having finished a podium in Baku. Ocon's victory vaulted him up to 10^th, 11 points behind Gasly and Ricciardo, with Alpine's big points haul allowing it to claim ^th in the constructors' standings ahead of AlphaTauri, while Aston Martin dropped from 6^th to 7^th following their disqualification and failure to score, with Stroll shuffled down to 14^th, leveling with Tsunoda but the Japanese rookie ahead in the standings by countback. Williams' long-awaited (double) points finish ensured both their drivers scored ahead of the Alfa Romeo drivers as well as getting ahead of Alfa Romeo in the constructors' standings, hence leaving Haas as the only team left yet to score a point in the season.

Drivers' World Championship Pos. Driver Pts. +/- 1 Lewis Hamilton 195 ▲1 2 Max Verstappen 187 ▼1 3 Lando Norris 113 — 4 Valtteri Bottas 108 — 5 Sergio Pérez 104 — 6 Carlos Sainz, Jr. 83 ▲1 7 Charles Leclerc 80 ▼1 8 Pierre Gasly 50 ▲1 9 Daniel Ricciardo 50 ▼1 10 Esteban Ocon 39 ▲3 11 Fernando Alonso 38 — 12 Sebastian Vettel 30 — 13 Yuki Tsunoda 18 ▲1 14 Lance Stroll 18 ▼2 15 Nicholas Latifi 6 ▲4 16 George Russell 4 ▲1 17 Kimi Räikkönen 2 ▼2 18 Antonio Giovinazzi 1 ▼2

Constructors' World Championship Pos. Team Pts. +/- 1 Mercedes 303 ▲1 2 Red Bull Racing-Honda 291 ▼1 3 Ferrari 163 ▲1 4 McLaren-Mercedes 163 ▼1 5 Alpine-Renault 77 ▲2 6 AlphaTauri-Honda 68 ▼1 7 Aston Martin-Mercedes 48 ▼1 8 Williams-Mercedes 10 ▲1 9 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 3 ▼1

Only point-scoring drivers and constructors are shown.

See Also

	See the related content on the W Series Wiki
	2021 Hungaroring Round

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