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  • F1, F2, F3 QUALIFYING and RACE REPORTS
  • Mercedes finish 2-3
  • Vettel retires
  • The F1 silly season
  • Porsche and Red Bull
  • Ferrari's problems
  • Hungary 2009
  • Théo Pourchaire charges in F2
  • Character ref. Peter J Fox
See below to read what we think

What we think

There’s an uphill tunnel that leads from the lower paddock in the Hungaroring to the upper. Its walls bear the names of winners of the Hungarian Grand Prix, and among them is that of Thierry Boutsen. His inclusion is a reminder that once upon a time it was all but impossible to overtake here. The pleasant Belgian, three times an F1 winner, was able back in 1989 to keep his Williams Renault ahead of Ayrton Senna’s McLaren Honda for the entire 77 laps. That occurred to us when we looked at how much overtaking there was in this year’s race, and at the notional halfway point of the 2022 season, as we head into a much-needed summer break, it’s a good opportunity to assess whether the new ground-effect rules have achieved their aim of making the racing better. Undoubtedly different tyre strategies played a role today, as they usually do, but overall was all the action proof that the new regulations work?
Who better than race winner Max Verstappen to offer an answer? The World Champion suggested that you definitely needed a bit of tyre advantage or to have people struggling because they had made the wrong choice of the harder compound, especially as there was a fair amount of drizzle throughout the race, and that it helped to create more overtaking opportunities than there might have been on the more usual sunny Hungaroring day.
But he believes, as do many other drivers, that the new rules make it easier to follow another car, and though it might then still be very hard to pass, it can at least facilitate that for the right driver.
Overtaking isn’t meant to be easy, one of the few things we agreed with Max Mosley about, but so long as it is potentially more achievable, we’ll take that. With thanks to FOM.

Our 2022 issues

319 Season preview
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Lewis vs Max II
  • Portrait: Mattia Binotto
  • Interview: Pierre Gasly
  • F1's finances
  • The war in Ukraine and the sport
  • Full preview of the F1 season
  • Character ref. Joddy Egginton
320 Bahrain GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Ferrari stuns rivals with 1-2
  • Jost Capito talks Williams
  • Kevin's comeback
  • Quick Vic remembered
  • The history of ground effect in F1
  • Pourchaire wins F2
  • Character ref. John Elkann
321 Saudi Arabian GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Saudi Arabia in F1
  • Is overtaking better?
  • Lasers in F1
  • The Fangio museum
  • Racing cars as art form
  • Tribute: Reine Wisell
  • Character ref. GianPiero Lambiase
322 Australian GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Leclerc dominates in Melbourne
  • A Grand Prix in Las Vegas
  • What's wrong with Mercedes
  • Alternating races
  • Ken Tyrrell remembered
  • Time for a wake-up call for Monaco?
  • Character ref. Christian Estrosi
323 Emilia Romagna GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • A dominant week-end for Red Bull
  • Manufacturers looking at F1
  • Charles Leclerc, the man of the moment
  • Pourchaire to the fore
  • Looking back at Imola 1982
  • Character ref. Stuart Morrison
324 Miami GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Formula 1 in America
  • Interview Tom Garfinkel
  • Tony Brooks remembered
  • How close did Tony Brooks come to the title?
  • A hot day in Dallas 1984
  • Character ref. Richard Cregan
325 Spanish GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Fifteen years of GP+
  • Aston Martin - The spitting image of Red Bull
  • F1 budget cap
  • New boys in Barcelona
  • The Spanish GP 2016
  • F2 and F3 in Barcelona
  • Book reviews
  • Character ref. Sophie Ogg
326 Monaco GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Inflation in F1
  • The future of the Monaco GP
  • Interview: Yuki Tsunoda
  • A look back at the Spanish GP
  • Monaco 1982, a crazy race
  • Drugovich dominant in F2
  • Character ref. Mia Djacic
327 Azerbaijan GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Kevin Magnussen's comeback
  • Sergio Perez's moment of glory
  • Ferrari's mess in Monaco
  • Switzerland votes to go racing
  • F1 and Pride month
  • The 1962 French GP
  • Character ref. Stuart Pringle
328 Canadian GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Porpoising in F1
  • Australia's new deal
  • The 2023 calendar
  • The 1992 Canadian GP
  • Character ref. Julien Fébreau
329 British GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • The changing F1 calendar
  • Alpine Rac(H)er programme
  • Canadian adventures
  • A look back at Nigel Mansell
  • F1 needs racers not racists
  • Character ref. Piers Thynne
330 Austrian GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Is Mercedes back in the game?
  • What happened with Leclerc at Silverstone
  • The 1964 Austrian GP
  • The halo effect
  • Character ref. Pierre Génon
331 French GP
  • Qualifying and race reports
  • Is it farewell to the French GP?
  • Colton Herta tests for McLaren
  • The FIA and porpoising
  • A big day in 1922, Grand Prix de l'ACF
  • All about Red Bull in Formula 2
  • Track limits
  • Character ref. Natalie Pinkham
332 Hungarian GP
  • Mercedes finish 2-3
  • Vettel retires
  • The F1 silly season
  • Porsche and Red Bull
  • Ferrari's problems
  • Hungary 2009
  • Pourchaire charges in F2
  • Character ref. Peter J Fox
333 Belgian GP
  • Will be published on August 28
334 Dutch GP
  • Will be published on September 4
335 Italian GP
  • Will be published on September 11
336 Singapore GP
  • Will be published on October 2
337 Japanese GP
  • Will be published on October 9
338 US GP
  • Will be published on October 23
339 Mexican GP
  • Will be published on October 30
340 Brazilian GP
  • Will be published on November 13
341 Abu Dhabi GP
  • Will be published on November 20
342 Season review
  • Will be published in December

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