Below is the strategies table from the Hungarian Grand Prix, which saw a high number of retirements for 2009 – three drivers failed to make the chequered flag. Of all the strategies employed, everybody went with a...
Archive - July 2009
Hungary 2009: Lewis Hamilton Returns McLaren To Top With Victory
Lewis Hamilton has returned the McLaren team to the top of the podium with a convincing victory at the Hungaroring. The race, which saw only nineteen runners, was supposed to be a dual between Fernando Alonso and the...
Hungary 2009: Race Result
The Hungarian Grand Prix is due to commence in a short while, this race being the last before the four week break. Fernando Alonso has taken a timeless pole position to head the pack down to the first corner, but right...
Hungary 2009: Live Race Notes
Listed below are my notes from the Hungarian Grand Prix, updated as the race unfolds before us. Lewis Hamilton will be wanting to get by the Red Bulls before the first corner, and Fernando Alonso is very light and...
Hungary 2009: Massa Rests His Weary Head After Successful Surgery
Felipe Massa this evening is resting his tired head after having an operation at Hungary’s AEK hospital in Budapest. The Ferrari pilot was airlifted from the Hungaroring to the city’s hospital following a...
Hungary 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The FIA have published the weights of the top ten qualifiers and the declared weights of the remaining ten cars following the qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Using Williams’s reckoning of the Hungaroring...
Hungary 2009: The Grid
Here is the grid for tomorrow’s Hungarian Grand Prix, which will be updated should any penalties be handed out between now and the race start. At the front we have Fernando Alonso on pole, his first since 2007...
Hungary 2009: Fernando Alonso Takes A Well Timed Pole Position
In what can only be described as an eventful qualifying session, that as predicted proved to be exciting from start to finish, Fernando Alonso has taken his first pole position since the Italian Grand Prix in 2007. From...
Hungary 2009: Felipe Massa Crashes Out Of Qualifying
The final shots from the second stint in qualifying showed Felipe Massa’s Ferrari F60 buried quite deep in the tyre barrier at turn four. While no footage has been shown of exactly what happened, Massa remained in...
Hungary 2009: Live Qualifying Notes
Lasting approximately one hour, qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix shuld prove to be just as exciting as the other sessions this year. Scuderia Toro Rosso are debuting Jaime Alguersuari, and McLaren appear to have...