Following the Hungarian Grand Prix, key statistics highlight the standout moments, including Oscar Piastri’s landmark win as the first 21st-century born victor.
As after every Grand Prix, it’s time to review the most striking statistics, records that were broken, remarkable streaks still ongoing or abruptly halted last weekend…
Qualifications
A front row 100% McLaren F1? Not seen since the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2012. In his final Grand Prix with the team, Lewis Hamilton secured pole ahead of Jenson Button. At this Grand Prix, it was also the second-place starter who claimed victory!
This was also McLaren F1’s first pole in Hungary since 2012 (Lewis Hamilton won that year).
Lando Norris achieved his 2nd pole this year, and the 3rd of his career.
McLaren F1 has amassed 9 poles at the Hungaroring, tying with Mercedes F1.
Oscar Piastri made a front-row start for the 3rd time in his career (after Japan 2023 and Monaco 2024).
The gap between 1st and 2nd in qualifications in Hungary was less than 0.044 s for the third consecutive year.
Max Verstappen started the year with 7 consecutive poles… but has only one in the last six Grands Prix.
For the first time since 2013, there was no Mercedes F1 in the top 4 on the grid in Hungary.
Lewis Hamilton outqualified George Russell for only the 3rd time this year. He barely made it into Q3 by a margin of 10 thousandths over Nico Hülkenberg.
Lance Stroll reached his 2nd Q3 of the year only in Hungary. However, in his first in 2020, he started 3rd!
Daniel Ricciardo posted the fastest time in Q1.
Red Bull (or AlphaTauri-Toro Rosso) managed to place both cars in the top 10 for the 3rd time this year.
Logan Sargeant made it to Q2 in the last two races.
Perez experienced his fourth Q1 elimination in the last six races, tied with Bottas and Guanyu Zhou.
George Russell was on pole at the Hungaroring in 2022 but was eliminated in Q1 at the Hungaroring for the second consecutive year.
Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly qualified in the last two spots in Q1. This means Alpine had the slowest two cars for the 2nd time this year, after the opening race in Bahrain. It’s their worst two-car qualifying in the history of Benetton, Renault, Lotus, and Alpine.
The Race
McLaren secured its 49th one-two finish, and its 2nd in the past 14 years (after Monza 2021 with Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris – also 2nd).
McLaren’s last one-two in Hungary was back in 1999 – with Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard.
Oscar Piastri is the fifth Australian to win a Grand Prix (since 1950), following Jack Brabham, Alan Jones, Mark Webber, and Daniel Ricciardo.
This marks the 44th race win for an Australian driver, moving the country ahead of Italy into seventh place in the rankings of victorious nations.
Piastri became only the second winner in history not born in the 20th century, having been born in 2001. The first was Luigi Fagioli, born in 1898!
Fagioli won the 1951 ACF Grand Prix at Reims, driving an Alfa. Or rather, co-won! After 24 laps, he was asked to hand over the wheel to Fangio, his team leader. Fangio crossed the finish line first, and Fagioli was also declared the winner: the oldest winner in history, at 53 years and 22 days! However, upset at having to share his victory, he left F1 the following year!
Piastri was 2 years and just over 4 months old when Fernando Alonso won his first F1 race in 2003.
In the last race at Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton became the oldest winner of the 21st century.
Piastri is the 115th driver to win a World Championship Grand Prix.
This is the first time two drivers from the same team have won their first victory in the same season since Williams in 2001 with Ralf Schumacher and Juan-Pablo Montoya.
There have been seven different winners this season, the most in the hybrid era (the last season with more winners was in 2012 with eight winners).
Norris has finished second 12 times in his career but has only one victory.
McLaren now has 11 podiums this year.
Hamilton now has 200 career podiums. This is, of course, a record, with Michael Schumacher second at 155.
This is Hamilton’s 12th career podium at the Hungaroring. His favorite circuit after Silverstone.
This is the first time Hamilton has finished on the podium in two consecutive Grands Prix since 2023 (Spain-Canada).
Finishing fourth for Ferrari, Charles Leclerc scored as many points today (12) as in the last four Grands Prix combined for him.
Carlos Sainz has scored in nine of the last nine Hungarian Grands Prix.
Max Verstappen crossed the line in 5th place for Red Bull. This is the 2nd time in 3 Grands Prix that he has been involved (and possibly at fault) in a collision, after Austria (where he also finished 5th).
Perez has not finished in the top six in the last seven Grands Prix, despite his strong comeback yesterday.
Russell has scored only four points in the last two Grands Prix.
Stroll also finished 10th at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2023.
No one has won the race from pole position in Hungary in the last four years (and in the last five Grands Prix).
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