F1 Digest - Hungary Preview
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It’s that time of year again, when F1 descends upon Hungary. All the drivers appear to like it, but is it a matter of protesting just that little bit too much?
Vital Statistics
- Date: 3rd August
- Circuit: Hungaroring
- Length: 4.4km
- Laps: 70
- 2007 Winner: Lewis Hamilton
Preview
Glock returns to action and is looking forward to the race, as many of our drivers are. It seems that Hungary was a time of firsts for a lot of them, first win for Button, first race for Vettel. Nakajima is slightly nervous as he’s never driven on the track in an F1 car before. All this, plus a dusty track and no overtaking should lead to a less than stellar race.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:58 amConnor said:
Hey guys,
I love your show, but this sounds like a recap on the last grand prix. Can’t wait for the preview. Thanks
July 31st, 2008 at 9:05 amChristine said:
There’s an element of both in the show. I believe that it’s worth remembering what happened last year in advance of the weekend, and then we hear what each of the drivers are thinking ahead of the race.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:08 amConnor said:
For the german grand prix?
July 31st, 2008 at 9:12 amChristine said:
Oh, I see, I misunderstood your comment.
Have fixed it now, should point to the correct file. Apologies.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:16 amConnor said:
No worries. Thanks for the great show Christine, and say “hi” to me.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:32 amStuart C said:
Morning all,
And now for the weather: scorchio!
It was very muggy when we landed yesterday and there was a brief but torrential downpour as we drove in to Budapest. The locals reckon it’s going to stay dry for the next few days.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:43 amme said:
oh lordy.
howdy conner, cheers for heads up
July 31st, 2008 at 9:50 amme said:
yipee. i think heat is ferrari’s only hope this weekend.
what are we gonna do with our weekend, if we’re not spending it pouring over weather charts?
seeing as you’ve been there for all of 5 minutes, is there any news in paddock on macca’s four-paddled wheel? internet rumours suggest the team are gaining an unfair advantage having developed the standard ecu this year.
any sense of dissatisfaction in the pitlane, or is all sweetness and light after the maranello meet?
July 31st, 2008 at 9:54 amlou said:
woo!! If lewis is gonna win this gp i want ferrari to at least put up a fight.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:55 amGaulty (What the hell happens at 1 in the morning) said:
Good Morning folks, just a thought, in your description at the top you’ve wrote
I really hope you mean Hungary…
Other than that, cool stuff
July 31st, 2008 at 9:59 amDan Brunell said:
Great show. I will try to keep in touch this weekend. I am without TV or a land-line internet this weekend since I am finishing up moving to a new house. New one for the “You know your an F1 fan when…”
- You know you are an F1 fan when one of your requirements of a new house is that the cable/satellite provider of the area carries Formula One.
So back to the race. Anyone betting that Alonso holds up Piquet Jr. during qualifying because he beat him in the last race?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:00 amme said:
omg! cheers gaulty.
me too. the racing hasn’t let us down all year. maybe we’re expecting too much now though?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:02 amme said:
i am banking on it. he’s been far to sedate this year, we need some more door kicking action methinks.
what would be really nice is if kovi found his backbone and took the fight to lewis. i heard he left it at enstone last year and has been looking for it ever since
July 31st, 2008 at 10:10 amlou said:
We have had a wonderful amount of good races this year. So I suppose one bad race is ok. We do have live commenting which should make it a little bit more exciting
I’m not sure on the probablilty of ferrari being back on form this week is though. Apparently they are using the avril wing, which they tested for a small amount of time on one day of testing last week. :/ They must have collected some very good data. FP1 should be interesting, won’t it be the first time Kimi has driven with the avril wing? not sure of how much of a difference it will make.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:12 amStuart C said:
I’ll do some digging. Might be quiet until Saturday because there’s quite a lot to get done today and tomorrow.
The general feeling is that this new teams’ association is just another committee, and therefore not a massively significant development…
July 31st, 2008 at 10:15 amChristine said:
In my defence, I wrote it at 6am this morning, but that’s no excuse. Maybe I was just hoping?
It’d be nice to have some door kicking without the months of politics that followed!
More talk, less doing.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:15 amDan Brunell said:
Absolutely agreed. However, I think he was required to turn his backbone in when he signed the dotted line at McLaren. I am really sensing another “Barrichello at Ferrari situation” shaping up here with Kovi.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:30 amme said:
if that’s true kovi’s career is pretty much over. at least rubens saw some proper action before he arrived at ferrari. all kovi has to his name is:
- a decent second half to ‘07
- should’ve won in australia
it’s his choice i guess.
i thought coulthard underachieved when driving at mclaren, i wonder if kovi will fit into that same mould?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:32 amSteven Roy said:
Does anyone know when we get the results of Lewis’s random engine inspection?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:38 amChristine said:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69522
All good, apparently.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:42 amme said:
that should keep big flav quiet for about ten minutes. also on autosport, kovi confirmed for 2009:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69523
they probably told him he’d be allowed to win in brazil or something
July 31st, 2008 at 10:57 amSteven Roy said:
Two pieces of good news.
Surely the FIA as a matter of course should be checking the engines of all cars that score points. Are they seriously now assuming everyone is being honest all the time and only testing randomly. Of course checking the point scorers engines/cars can be problematic. I remember a few years ago and I am not certain it was F1 where pretty much every car on the grid had the same minor illegality. I can’t even remember what it was. All of the point scorers cars were checked by the scrutineers and found to be illegal so the first guy out of the points was awarded the win. By the time scrutineering had finished all the other cars had gone so couldn’t be checked.
Kovi will prove to be really good in the end. Not just as good as Lewis but I can see him moving in two or three years and winning a championship elsewhere. Of course if Lewis goes to Ferrari he may just sit at McLaren and win.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:30 amme said:
oh, but didn’t they say that about dc after mika retired?
July 31st, 2008 at 12:54 pmme said:
montyz has a new job:
“…it is not really a surprise to hear that the president of the new Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), will be Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo.”
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns20613.html
July 31st, 2008 at 1:00 pmJoe said:
Luca Di Montezemolo is an odd fellow. He said last year that he admired how sporting Alonso had been while at McLaren. :/
On the subject of the race, if it’s scorching then Ferrari will win I think. I just hope it isn’t Masa, I’m not a big fan of him and don’t think he’s good enough for the title.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:01 pmJoe said:
Oh my god, XD. Weather here:
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/7/8168.html
More rain? Surely not…….
July 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pmSteven Roy said:
At the height of the FISA/FOCA war someone printed a T shirt with the legend FISA + FOCA = FIASCO. Given that now we have FIA + FOTA I asked at GPWizard for suggestions as to what might replace FIASCO. The answer I was given yesterday was O’FIAT and then Luca is put in charge of FOTA. Co-incidence?
I noticed grandprix.com carried another interesting stor today involving Michael Schumacher crashing a FIAT van into a garge door somewhere in England. I still can’t make my mind up whether or not it is a wind up.
July 31st, 2008 at 1:34 pmme said:
where in the world are f1.com getting their weather data from?
all i see is sunshine:
http://de.weather.com/weather/local/HUXX0002
http://www.meteociel.com/modeles/gfse_cartes.php
July 31st, 2008 at 1:39 pmme said:
bbc news have it too:
“A spokesman for the seven-time Formula 1 world champion confirmed the incident had taken place and that Schumacher had co-operated with police.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7534890.stm
July 31st, 2008 at 2:09 pmLynch said:
Shumio must have been up to something at ?Lyden Hill? race track perhaps?
July 31st, 2008 at 2:38 pmStuart C said:
Me too. Ambient has just gone up to 30C from 29C and the air feels dry rather than muggy.
Kimi has just turned up very late for the press conference…
July 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pmme said:
another 5,000 EUR fine then.
didn’t he do that last time you attended a race?
July 31st, 2008 at 3:24 pmStuart C said:
Uh oh. Rumbled!
The fruits of my researches so far on the four-paddle steering wheel: everyone I’ve spoken to has said it’s a perfectly legitimate gizmo. The rules stipulate that torque can’t be adjusted via a switch on the steering wheel, so this falls into the category of “clever dodge”. It doesn’t require any insider knowledge of the SECU.
The general feeling is one of “We wish we’d thought of that.” No one is suggesting that McLaren gained an unfair advantage – in fact, one (non-McLaren) team person said, “That’s just a conspiracy theory dreamed up by internet nutters.”
July 31st, 2008 at 3:49 pmme said:
phew. with flav’s engine protestations now silenced (at least temporarily), we may be in for a controversy free weekend then.
i first read it on the autosport forums and then shortly afterwards on a couple of others… so, erm, yes!
nice pics btw
July 31st, 2008 at 4:58 pmJourneyer said:
Stuart, Bobby K? Robert Kubica is Bobby Kennedy now? Hahaha!
July 31st, 2008 at 5:05 pmme said:
ooh, interesting thought. don’t know much about that place though, do they race sports cars there or something?
July 31st, 2008 at 5:32 pmStuart C said:
Interesting note from today: in response to criticisms of the track being dusty and ‘green’, the circuit owners bought a scrubbing/sucking device a couple of years ago. They run it round at the start of a GP weekend and it removes something in the order of 7 tonnes of gunk.
Bobby K sounds like a fast name…
July 31st, 2008 at 6:05 pmDan Brunell said:
At least it’s not Ted Kennedy driving.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:18 pmJordan Allen said:
@Folks, Dan seems to be extremely concerned that Ted can somehow crash his car into the water park at the bottom of the circuit, about 500 feet (200 m) away from the start of Turn 5…..
I would say go for it Ted! It is not like you can ever become President now and a Mass. State Senatorship is practially a Kennedy family hierroom….
.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:03 pmDan Brunell said:
Stuart and everyone at the track, if you see an old big-headed Irish-American Senator stumbling towards a car; Run fast, run quick, run far, and run to a high spot.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:13 pmJordan Allen said:
@Dan
I thought turn 5 was the highest point at the circuit, Dan! Way to line up all the ducks at the shooting gallery!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:15 pmDan Brunell said:
Noo!!!!
Just another reason why VW needs to be in the sport.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:31 pmDank said:
Man killed at Renault factory at Enstone today: http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2414756.0.man_dies_at_f1_team_headquarters.php
Very strange…
July 31st, 2008 at 8:35 pmJoe said:
What the hell @ at that death. That is the strangest thing I’ve read for quite a while.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:55 pmme said:
what??
technically it happened yesterday (wednesday), but blimey that’s heavy.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:30 pmlou said:
Hey everyone! I have just got back from the british motor show and thought it would be worth mentioning that I saw a few f1 cars there. Honda, Williams, Renault and Toyota all had their display models on show.
:O my god!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:38 pmSteven Roy said:
Sometimes I worry about my brain. I was driving home when an idea popped into my head. Every time a new type of aerodynamic device appears on a car there is a period of a few weeks before it acquires a name. For some reason a lot of the names are animal based - shark fins, dumbo ears and Super Aguri’s chicken wings. So I think the next time a new type of aerodynamic device turns up we should make a serious effort to have them called panda flaps. With the number of websites the population of sidepodcast visit it should not take long before the name is adopted.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:38 pmJoe said:
That death is seriously…….bizarre. The team will surely have some sort of tribute, like a bit of black on their nosecones or something.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:06 pmLe BOL said:
Strange days.
I was thinking about decent nickname for Alonso but could only come up with “Macarena”.
And - oh my god! - Kova won’t be coming back to Renault, he worryingly wants to end his career with McLaren. He’s like 28 or 29, right? A bit early to think about retirement.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:10 pmme said:
my first thought when i heard that, was he already ended his career they day he joined the team
cheers lou, any piccies?
panda’s aren’t well known for their flaps though? panda eyes maybe.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:19 pmlou said:
yep, loads of them. I Actually ran out space on my SD card.
500 and some odd photos 
I am just looking through them all now, should be up later/tomorrow 
i will post a link when they are all up. 
July 31st, 2008 at 10:20 pmme said:
sheesh! in one day?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:22 pmDan Brunell said:
Wow, that is a scary thing. All the best to those at Renault in this dark hour.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:22 pmJoe said:
I hate bringing up something totally off-topic (although I do that a lot : P) but, the FIA want to make the sport less expensive, and then they bring KERS in, which seems contradicting.
I know they want to make the sport greener, but that seems a bit pointless, they’re racing cars for god sake! With them wanting to make it betetr for the enviroment, they’re pushing up costs, just seems silly.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:36 pmlou said:
yep i had a very good day. the lighting was amazing! i may have got abit carried away. one thing that i found annoying though was that people kept falling over/ walking into me as i was taking photos.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:44 pmlou said:
Just a thought about the death on Wednesday, i know it’s unlikely but could it have anything to do with kers? i mean it has already electrocuted someone…. whatever the cause horrible horrible times for renault.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:45 pmme said:
i’ve seen quite a few on flickr. autosport could learn a lot from that show.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:47 pmlou said:
I couldn’t believe how good it was, it was much bigger than i though it would be. A brillaint day out, and not that expensive either.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:48 pmme said:
the oxford mail reports that a firearm was involved.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:50 pmme said:
that’s a broad subject right there
umm, my take on the situation is teams will spend, spend, spend anyhow. much better that they’re researching something semi-useful than, say, a new split rear wing.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:54 pmlou said:
ah, sorry i misread it. I didn’t think it had been confirmed.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:56 pmLe BOL said:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/jbimitatesroyorbison
JB & his retro crusade.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:59 pmme said:
i don’t think it has, and it may not be the case. but i would’ve thought the team would be more open if it was a kers disaster.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:00 pmme said:
did they send him with the freight or something? bert’s new cost-cutting measures have come into force earlier than expected.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:06 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Does anyone know when we get the results of Lewis’s random engine inspection?
All good, apparently. {Christine - 31 comments ago}
Agreed. The last thing we needed was more accusations of cheating.
also on autosport, kovi confirmed for 2009 {me - 30 comments ago}
That’s a good move on McLaren’s and Kovalainen’s part. They work well as a team, there’s nowhere for either of them to move until 2010 and Kovalainen will surely be better next year than this.
I remember a few years ago and I am not certain it was F1 where pretty much every car on the grid had the same minor illegality. {Steven Roy - 29 comments ago}
That would be the Brazillian Grand Prix of 2000. All but one of the cars finished the race with planks that were so worn that they breached the plank thickness rules. The stewards took one look at the consequences of a strict application of the rules and decided to let everyone off, Interlagos’ famously bumpy track giving the perfect excuse.
The only car that still met the regulations was Fisichella’s Benetton, which was doubly confusing because he was also the only driver to do a one-stop strategy and therefore should have had more wear on the plank than anybody else…
More rain? Surely not……. {Joe - 25 comments ago}
Surely not. Windguru says there’ll be drizzle on Friday morning… …and the next rain after that will be next Wednesday. It is possible that the race weekend will be completely dry.
where in the world are f1.com getting their weather data from? {me - 23 comments ago}
CVC, I guess. Wet races get more viewers and net them more money.
“A spokesman for the seven-time Formula 1 world champion confirmed the incident had taken place and that Schumacher had co-operated with police.” {me quoting the BBC - 22 comments ago}
That’s a really stupid thing for Michael to do. Hope the guy he hit is OK.
Kimi has just turned up very late for the press conference… {Stuart C - 20 comments ago}
The “attitude adjustment” fines just don’t work on him, do they?
Man killed at Renault factory at Enstone today {Dank - 8 comments ago}
That’s awful, whatever the circumstances
July 31st, 2008 at 11:11 pmme said:
oh you big cynic… i like your thinking
i think christine found out some more on this subject. schumi may have been heading to a private airfield.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pmlou said:
woo! I have just bought my tickets to the ROC!
yay!
July 31st, 2008 at 11:26 pmme said:
another update on the schumi crash thing.
according to lynchie on facebook, ron dennis / mclaren own the race track at lydden hill.
curiouser and curiouser.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:26 pmme said:
where be u seated lou?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:28 pmlou said:
It was Lydd airport in Kent. It was in our local paper.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:33 pmlou said:
ehe I just asked dad, and he says Cat 4…. I’m guessing they are the cheapest ones
Dad doesn’t like to spend much money 
July 31st, 2008 at 11:33 pmme said:
ahh cool. is it normal to drive from silverstone all the way to lydd in a van, to catch a private plane?
mind you is it normal for an ex f1 champ to tootle around kent in a van?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:34 pmme said:
erm, i see no cat 4?
http://www.seatwave.com/seatmap/map00.aspx?VenID=486
July 31st, 2008 at 11:41 pmlou said:
nope. considering it’s about 3 hours drive away from silverstone.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:48 pmlou said:
ah right. well, er i think by the price he said the tickets were we are right up the top…. :/ I shall chat to him in the morning….
August 1st, 2008 at 12:03 amSteven Roy said:
McLaren bought the track years ago with the plan to move their whole team there so that they would have a private test track on their doorstep like Ferrari but in the end they decided that it would be unfair to ask their workforce to uproot their lives so they built MTC but without a track. I have no idea whether they still own it but I can’t remember them selling it. I can’t think why they would have hung on to it. I wonder if Michael’s meeting with Ron is connected to Anthony Hamilton’s meeting with Domenicali. There is a conspiracy theory for you.
I totally agree Joe. You can add in that Max likes to promote himself as being responsible for the current state of F1 safety now introducing potentially dangerous technology to F1. The man is a bundle of contradictions. But then this is the man who is together with his wife even though they live in different countries.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:46 amDan Brunell said:
If you want a good laugh, on F1 Fanatic in the build up to the last race, I made a series of predictions for the last race given certain weather conditions. The last one was:
If hell freezes over:
1: Sutil
2: Piquet Jr.
3: Le Seb
I can’t believe that.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:59 amLadySnowcat said:
It was leaves on the tarmac in Switzerland….
Or something like that….
You know it happens every day….
August 1st, 2008 at 8:31 amme said:
just a’testing the live commenting…
August 1st, 2008 at 8:34 amme said:
that blows my mind
i think i know where the santander deal is going now…
August 1st, 2008 at 9:05 amLadySnowcat said:
I can’t get any pics on itv.com….
Has anyone else succeeded?….
August 1st, 2008 at 4:49 pmJordan Allen said:
Yeah! Dan Brunell has stopped Global Warming from the inside out….. Noble Prioze winner in science for sure…. I guess we can ovetlook that incident of creating a panic, and getting everyoen to run to turn 5 so that it would have been easier for Mr. Kennedy to mow them down, now, Dan….