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Hungarian Grand Prix deal extended to 2032

Formula 1 will race at the Hungaroring until at least 2032 after the circuit secured a fresh contract extension to host the Hungarian Grand Prix. The new deal, which adds five years to the track’s current agreement, comes after promises made by the …

Formula 1 will race at the Hungaroring until at least 2032 after the circuit secured a fresh contract extension to host the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The new deal, which adds five years to the track’s current agreement, comes after promises made by the track to undertake significant infrastructure upgrades, including the construction of a brand-new pit building.

Many of the track’s facilities date back to its first grand prix in 1986. The circuit will celebrate its 46th anniversary in 2032.

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The central European circuit, just 10 miles north-east of central Budapest, is a driver favorite for its rhythmic, kart-style layout.

The event has also enjoyed a renaissance among fans in recent years, and organizers are anticipating 300,000 people through the gates this weekend.

“It is great news to announce the extension of the Hungarian Grand Prix for an additional five years as we return for another action-packed weekend at the Hungaroring,” F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said.

“It is a very special circuit next to the incredible city of Budapest and one all of the drivers and our fans look forward to on the calendar.

“To see the commitment from the promoter in Hungary to develop the facilities and further enhance the experience for fans is another important step and something we want to see all our events doing in order to continue to improve and make our races even better.”

Hungaroring president Zsolt Gyulay said the new circuit infrastructure will keep the historic track competitive among a wealth of modern purpose-built facilities joining the calendar.

“Given the astonishing rise in F1’s global popularity, which now sees more venues than ever before competing to join the calendar, today’s signing marks a hugely significant achievement for us,” he said.

“Fittingly, the updates to our famous circuit – which include renovations to our main paddock building, main grandstand and spectator zones – are expected to be completed by 2026.

“It will be a source of great satisfaction to host the teams and fans, who will always be our main priority, at a world-class venue that will reflect the high standards you come to expect for an F1 race weekend.

“My colleagues and I began work on this significant development project eight years ago, and today’s announcement acts as the crowning accomplishment for our collective efforts. I would therefore like to thank everyone involved in getting us to

this point today and look forward to many more years of premium F1 racing at the Hungaroring.”

Hamilton edges Verstappen in third Hungarian GP practice

Lewis Hamilton bested Max Verstappen to top spot of an intriguing final practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Warm weather and a high track evolution following rain on Friday made the hour difficult to read, as did the ongoing effects of …

Lewis Hamilton bested Max Verstappen to top spot of an intriguing final practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Warm weather and a high track evolution following rain on Friday made the hour difficult to read, as did the ongoing effects of Pirelli’s reduced tire allocations for teams, which forced them to be more frugal with their run plans.

It took until the final 15 minutes for Hamilton and Verstappen to get to their soft-tire qualifying simulation laps, having spent the balance of the hour on the slower medium tire.

The Briton set his lap first, logging the ultimately untouchable time of 1m17.811s. Verstappen followed up a minute or two later, but a bad middle sector cost him 0.18s of his 0.25s deficit to top spot. The Dutchman complained afterwards of a lack of grip from the softest tire had hampered his efforts.

It was the culmination of a difficult hour for Verstappen, who even on the medium tire appeared uncomfortable. The first two corners — where the wind was also blowing particularly strongly and changing direction — caused him particular trouble with rear traction.

Sergio Perez took advantage of his teammate’s problems to put himself third and just 0.006s behind the Dutchman to complete the top three.

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Nico Hulkenberg showed Haas had dialed its car in well to the twisty Hungaroring with an impressive fourth-best time just 0.01s behind Perez, albeit the German was one of the last drivers to set his fastest lap, taking advantage of the track when it was most gripped up.

But Lando Norris was arguably the standout for McLaren in fifth. The Briton was 0.271s off the pace but set his fastest time on mediums rather than softs. Data from Friday suggested the medium tire is approximately 0.26s slower than the soft, notwithstanding the cooler Friday conditions.

The warmer weather meant most drivers struggled to keep the soft compound within its working window. Several drivers complained about soaring temperatures but were told overheating was likely to be a weekend-long problem given the nature of the circuit.

George Russell slotted into sixth with a late soft lap, putting himself 0.3s behind his session-topping teammate.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz were closely matched at 0.38s and 0.42s off the pace respectively. Both drivers were rapid in the first sector but dropped time as the lap continued, suggesting poor tire temperature management by the SF-23.

Fernando Alonso was more than half a second off the pace for Aston Martin but set his best time almost half an hour still to run in the session, when the track would have been slower.

Valtteri Bottas completed the top 10 for the competitive-looking Alfa Romeo. Lance Stroll was 11th ahead of Zhou Guanyu and Alex Albon.

Oscar Piastri was 14th fastest, beating Kevin Magnussen, Pierre Gasly and Logan Sargeant.

AlphaTauri teammates Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda were the only drivers not to use the soft tire, with Ricciardo finishing 18th and Tsunoda 20th based on their medium-tire times, sandwiching Esteban Ocon in 19th.

Mercedes ‘at its worst’ amid tire troubles in Hungary – Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes car was “at its worst” on a difficult Friday afternoon at the Hungarian Grand Prix but apportioned some of the blame to Formula 1’s experimental tire rules in operation this weekend. Hamilton finished the day an …

Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes car was “at its worst” on a difficult Friday afternoon at the Hungarian Grand Prix but apportioned some of the blame to Formula 1’s experimental tire rules in operation this weekend.

Hamilton finished the day an uncompetitive 16th and 1.06s off the pace. Teammate George Russell was last and 1.489s adrift.

Pirelli has temporarily reduced the number of sets of dry-weather tires available for each driver from 13 to 11 in a push to improve its environmental footprint and create more strategic jeopardy. Rather than the usual two hards, three mediums and eight softs available, each driver has been allocated three hards, four mediums and four softs.

One set of each compound must be reserved for qualifying, and one set apiece of the hards and mediums must be kept aside for the grand prix, further reducing the usable rubber stockpile for practice.

Mercedes took the unique approach of using just one set of used mediums in FP2 for each of its drivers to ensure both had more tires to choose from later in the weekend.

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Hamilton lamented the reduced track time that came as an unintended consequence of the rule tweak, particularly for trackside spectators, who were treated to less action than they might have expected.

“It’s not really a great format, this change they made for this weekend,” he said. “It just means we get less running, so not ideal.

“There’s a lot of wet tires I think they throw away after every weekend — a lot. Maybe they should look at something like that rather than taking time on track away from the fans.”

The lack of track time left Hamilton unsatisfied with where his W14 ended up on Friday night, forcing him to pin his hopes for a turnaround on overnight analysis.

“It wasn’t feeling good at all. It was feeling like the car at its worst today,” he said. “But we’ll work on the setup tonight.

“Usually last year it felt terrible at the beginning and then we turned it around with some setup changes, so we’ll work on it tonight, and hopefully tomorrow will be better.”

Teammate Russell was more optimistic about Mercedes’s position given the team’s unrepresentative run plan. Most other drivers got at least a short stint on softs, exaggerating the gap.

“It didn’t feel too bad, in all honesty,” he said. “We were obviously on very different programs to everybody else … so the lap times won’t really give a true representation.

“I’m sure tomorrow will be better. We’re still just focused on trying to improve. We always know we tend to get better as the weekend progresses, which is the right way around for it to be.

“There were a few interesting things we learned even in that one session. Let’s see what we can do tonight.”

Still, Russell acknowledged Mercedes’s pace problem stemmed from an inability to get the most from its tires, which relates back to the lack of track time.

“We’re struggling just with a bit of overall grip, really,” he said. “We never got the tires in the right window both in low fuel and high fuel.

“We just need to understand why that was — if we need to be taking a faster out-lap, a slower out-lap for the qualifying stint, [or] for the race run if we need to be pushing harder, managing more.

“It wasn’t our best day for sure, but it’s not the first time I’ve said that on a Friday evening, and Saturday and Sunday are often better.”

Leclerc leads Norris and Gasly in second Hungarian GP practice

Charles Leclerc topped a shaken-up dry second practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly. Ferrari driver Leclerc used a new set of soft tires to set a best time of 1m17.686s to pip McLaren’s Norris by just …

Charles Leclerc topped a shaken-up dry second practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly.

Ferrari driver Leclerc used a new set of soft tires to set a best time of 1m17.686s to pip McLaren’s Norris by just 0.015s, with Gasly’s Alpine a further 0.217s adrift.

The final hour of Friday practice featured a diverse array of running plans that made comparisons between drivers difficult to make.

Title leader Max Verstappen ended the session 11th and 0.593s off the pace, having focused on conducting long runs on a single set of soft tires rather than the customary demonstration of one-lap pace.

Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and George Russell similarly had their focus elsewhere on their way to 16th and 20th respectively. Neither driver used a set of softs, choosing instead to focus on long stints on medium rubber.

It lent the session a somewhat subdued vibe, particularly given FP1 had been washed out by a sudden heavy downpour, which would ordinarily prompt a flurry of on-track activity in the follow-up hour.

Several drivers also completed an unusually small number of laps, including session leader Leclerc, who logged just 20 times with a longest stint spanning nine laps.

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The reason for the unusual session was the sport’s experimental tire rules in force this weekend, which have seen each car have its allocation of rubber cut from 13 to 11 sets for the round, including a halving of soft tires from eight to four.

Teams interpreted the best way to maximize their tire allocations differently, which led to final classification sheet likely to bear limited resemblance to the true performance order.

Yuki Tsunoda rocketed to fourth for AlphaTauri at a quarter-second off the pace, beating Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg and Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas.

Fernando Alonso was eighth for Aston Martin ahead of Zhou Guanyu in the second Alfa and Carlos Sainz in the second Ferrari, the Spaniard almost half a second slower than leader Leclerc.

Verstappen was only 0.04s quicker than Lance Stroll, with Alex Albon fractionally behind.

Daniel Ricciardo ended his first dry session 14th. He was 0.699s off the pace and 0.451s behind AlphaTauri teammate Tsunoda.

Kevin Magnussen was 15th ahead of Hamilton and Williams rookie Logan Sargeant.

Sergio Perez’s difficult day continued following his FP1 crash. While the Mexican kept his car out of the barrier in the second session, an enormous lock-up on his sole qualifying simulation lap at Turn 11 badly flat-spotted his soft tires, forcing him back to his garage.

Perez didn’t have enough softs to bolt on a fresh set on account of the tire rules, leaving him to switch to his medium-tire long-run simulations for the rest of the hour without setting a representative single-lap time.

Oscar Piastri was 19th after spending much of the time in the McLaren garage for repairs to his damaged floor. The car had appeared to be bottoming out on the tarmac significantly early in the session.

Russell propped up the table in 20th for Mercedes.

F1 technical updates – 2023 Hungarian GP

Red Bull Racing and sister team AlphaTauri headline the schedule of upgrades for the Hungarian Grand Prix, with both making major aerodynamic revisions in Budapest. Red Bull Racing has been dealing with a 10 percent reduction in development time …

Red Bull Racing and sister team AlphaTauri headline the schedule of upgrades for the Hungarian Grand Prix, with both making major aerodynamic revisions in Budapest.

Red Bull Racing has been dealing with a 10 percent reduction in development time owing to its penalty for breaching the 2021 cost cap and has thus far refrained from bringing major upgrades to the RB19 this season. The team has listed five major parts to the upgrade package applied at the Hungaroring, though four of those components have reliability listed as their primary purpose.

The car has enlarged front and rear brake ducts that will help deal with the higher braking energy generated around the twisty Budapest circuit, The rear duct exits will also add local load.

The sidepod air inlets have been reprofiled in a way that will boost radiator cooling efficiency but will also likely boost aerodynamic efficiency. The engine cover has also been revised in sympathy with the wider intakes.

A new floor is the only component listed as being primarily driven by performance considerations. Unfortunately for the team, Sergio Perez’s FP1 crash allowed photographers to snap some photos of the floor body just minutes after making its on-track debut.

The crash damage appeared focused on the left-front corner of the car, potentially damaging one of the Mexican’s new brake ducts as well as parts of the floor.

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AlphaTauri has brought a new front and rear wing, a new nose and a new floor body, all of which are targeted at improving aerodynamic efficiency by producing more downforce for less drag.

The Italian team brought a large update package to the British Grand Prix, which technical director Jody Egginton said produced downforce largely in line with expectations despite a lukewarm response from his drivers.

The team will be hoping its latest set of new parts will improve the car’s balance, particularly rear stability on corner entry.

Mercedes has made changes to its front wing endplates and front suspension to boost downforce, while a new rear wing has been applied as a circuit-specific part.

Ferrari and Alpine have both brought Hungary-specific front wings to tackle the low-speed track and its high downforce demands.

Aston Martin has designed a new engine cover it expects to improve cooling efficiency. Heat management tends to be critical at the typically warm Hungaroring, where the lack of long straights and the track’s bowl-like topography minimize cooling opportunities.

Haas has brought a new floor with modified outboard components to improve flow efficiency.

Russell leads wet first Hungarian GP practice as Perez crashes out

George Russell topped a wet first practice hour at the Hungarian Grand Prix after Sergio Perez spun into the barriers just three minutes into the session. Perez was two laps into his run plan when he dipped his left wheels onto the grass getting on …

George Russell topped a wet first practice hour at the Hungarian Grand Prix after Sergio Perez spun into the barriers just three minutes into the session.

Perez was two laps into his run plan when he dipped his left wheels onto the grass getting on the brakes at Turn 5, sending him sliding out of control towards the outside barrier on exit. His upgraded Red Bull Racing car crunched its left-front corner into the wall, forcing a red flag to retrieve it from the circuit.

“I cannot believe this,” the distraught Mexican said over team radio, acknowledging his rookie error.

A red-flag suspension of around eight minutes was long enough for the dark clouds surrounding the Hungaroring to make good on their threat of rain, with a light shower turning suddenly into a heavy downpour that prevented even intermediate-tire running in the waterlogged conditions.

Drivers began sampling the slippery circuit at the half-hour mark, but it wasn’t until the final 15 minutes that the majority of the field took up a set of intermediates and set some meaningful laps.

The treacherous conditions almost immediately caught out Carlos Sainz, who spun his Ferrari backwards getting on the power out of Turn 3. The car gently brushed the barriers with its left-side tires, damaging his front wing, but he then beached his car on the curb, causing a second red flag. It took a platoon of marshals to push the slick car off the gutter to get the session restarted after less than five minutes of interruption.

The times improved as the session went on and the track gradually dried. Russell was among the last over the line, capitalizing on the best conditions to top the time sheet with a 1m38.895s.

Oscar Piastri was next best for McLaren a meaningless 0.359s adrift, with Lance Stroll completing the top three.

Lando Norris headed Fernando Alonso, Valtteri Bottas, Charles Leclerc, Zhou Guanyu, Logan Sargeant and Nico Hulkenberg to round out the top 10.

Kevin Magnussen was 11th ahead of Yuki Tsunoda, who ended the session with a damaged front wing, and Alex Albon as the last of the drivers to complete a timed lap.

None of the cars of Daniel Ricciardo, Sainz, Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton set a lap time in the conditions, while Perez was unable to rejoin the session owing to his crash.

Norris downplays prospects of a Silverstone repeat for McLaren in Hungary

Lando Norris played down expectations of a strong result for McLaren this weekend at the Hungaroring, despite his stunning second-place finish in Silverstone. The heavily upgraded MCL60 looked at home at the British Grand Prix’s fast, sweeping …

Lando Norris played down expectations of a strong result for McLaren this weekend at the Hungaroring, despite his stunning second-place finish in Silverstone.

The heavily upgraded MCL60 looked at home at the British Grand Prix’s fast, sweeping bends, qualifying second and third and finishing second and fourth, with Oscar Piastri missing out on a maiden podium thanks only to the timing of the safety car.

Further upgrades are due on the car this weekend, completing a three-race update cycle that Norris said was the largest he seen in his Formula 1 career. But despite the positivity around McLaren’s big step forward into the front-running pack, the Briton is anticipating tougher going in Budapest, where he doesn’t expect the circuit’s slower layout to play to the car’s strengths.

”No matter what the outlook of it all is, we’re not very good in the slow speed,” he said. “I doubt it’s going to be as good as Silverstone, because there are not high-speed corners. I think the last two tracks have made us look better than where we stand over the whole season.”

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Norris is preserving some optimism, though, given the Hungaroring’s recent resurfacing has produced a grippier surface, while ever-increasing downforce loads in Formula 1 have also raised the minimum speed of most corners. Combined, the track has become more medium speed than slow speed. But that also means McLaren will be forced to wait for a sterner examination of its slow-speed bona fides.

“I don’t think this is the true test,” he said. “I think it’ll be a good test, mainly because it’s not high speed.

“I don’t think this is a bad track for us. The tarmac we have here is a grippy tarmac. The corners are quite long corners — which I would also say is not our strength — but even if you say slow speed, they’re not super slow speed. So I think we’re going to have bigger tests of how bad it is going to get at some other tracks that are going to be coming up.”

Norris also pointed out that some of the car’s most significant slow-speed problems weren’t down to aerodynamics alone but more fundamental dynamic issues.

“It’s aerodynamics … but at the same time it’s a handling characteristic which I would say is not all to do with aerodynamics,” he explained. “Even if, say, we had the same load as the Red Bull in slow speed, I don’t think we have the right balance of car in slow speed, which I think is also a limitation for us.

“I don’t think it’s just about looking at aerodynamically how we perform but also mechanically, and tying everything together and coming up with little tricks and things that some other teams have to accelerate low-speed performance.

“Even with this upgrade we’ve had, the performance of driving the car, the handling, has not got any better. It’s still just as difficult to drive, as difficult to execute qualifying laps with. So for me a bigger step would be improving how we drive the car, how easy it is to drive the car, rather than just adding 10 more points of load in slow speed, because that’s only going to get us so far up the order. Red Bull have both.”

Norris, who tends to take a glass-half-empty approach to the car’s competitiveness, said the broader picture of the MCL60’s potential is keeping feet on the ground at Woking despite recent strong results.

“I don’t think anyone has a spring in their step at all,” he said. “We also know [podiums are] not going to happen that often at all.

“We enjoyed the moment for sure, but we know we’re not competing for wins or even podiums or even close to that very often. A lot of things went right for this to happen — even though we should’ve had a P2 and a P3.

“I think the confidence came from knowing we took a good step in the right direction. That’s just where people gain confidence that we were able to improve the car in some of those areas. But I don’t think anyone’s got overconfident in any way.”

Perez not focusing on implications of Ricciardo return

Sergio Perez says he isn’t concerned about the threat posed by Daniel Ricciardo being back on the grid despite the Australian’s intention to take his Red Bull Racing seat. Ricciardo is Red Bull Racing’s reserve driver this season but has been loaned …

Sergio Perez says he isn’t concerned about the threat posed by Daniel Ricciardo being back on the grid despite the Australian’s intention to take his Red Bull Racing seat.

Ricciardo is Red Bull Racing’s reserve driver this season but has been loaned to the sister AlphaTauri team to replace the ousted Nyck de Vries for the rest of the year. The sudden switch was made after Ricciardo set a time quick enough to have been on the front row of the British Grand Prix during a Pirelli tire test at Silverstone last week.

The test came just days after Perez started the British race 16th, having been knocked out of Q1 for the third time this season. It was also the sixth time in 10 rounds he had failed to qualify inside the top 10 for a grand prix.

The culmination of his Saturday difficulties is a 99-point championship gap to teammate Max Verstappen and questions about his position at the sport’s most dominant team, with Ricciardo now receiving the nod from Red Bull management to attempt a career revival. But the Mexican said the Australian’s elevation onto the grid wasn’t prompting any additional introspection on his part.

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“I’ve been in F1 for 13 years, so I’m not a guy who thinks so much further ahead,” he said. “I’ve been with the engineers; I don’t even have the time to discuss what’s going on with Daniel. I think it’s a great opportunity for him, and that’s it.

“I’m focusing on Hungary and then Belgium and not really thinking about 2025. It’s nonsense to think that far away.”

Perez said he’d spent the time since the British Grand Prix working with the team to iron out his qualifying problems, with his sensitivity to changing track conditions a particular focus.

“The deficit that I’ve been experiencing with the car in the last few races, whenever there is a change in condition, it tends to get wider,” he said. “That’s been something that has caught us out.

“I think the last five races really have been some change in conditions in qualifying. That has really put us on the back foot for it.

“We’ve been doing some good work with the engineers over the week. We have some ideas for [Hungaroring], and hopefully we are able to just feel just in general have a better platform where we can be more comfortable, and if there is a change in conditions, then we don’t have such a difference.”

The six-time race winner defended his season record, noting that he’d done enough to stay ahead of the rest of the field on the title table despite the chasm to his teammate.

“We just have to look back at my season, and if I’m second in the world championship, it’s for a reason,” he said. “I’ve had a rough patch, it’s true, but I’ve also had a good start to the season.

“It’s just balancing out — looking at those [good] races, what worked, and looking at the bad races and what didn’t — and just make sure we make progress weekend after weekend. I’m confident. I’ve done my work, I’ve done my preparation, and I’m ready to deliver a strong weekend. That’s all I can do.

“It’s my hands. That’s why I’m focused. I’m a winner. I don’t like having bad weekends, it’s not what I’m here for. I’m here because I know that I can do it and I’ve done it before.

“You’ve seen it with other drivers, other teams — they’ve had difficult periods, but then they don’t have 20 replacements [talked about] after each session like they do with the Red Bull drivers.”

Ricciardo mindful of avoiding ‘trap’ that ended McLaren run

Daniel Ricciardo is confident he can avoid the same mistakes that almost ended his career at McLaren in his 12-race stint with AlphaTauri. Ricciardo arrived at McLaren as one of Formula 1’s most highly rated drivers but was mystifyingly incapable of …

Daniel Ricciardo is confident he can avoid the same mistakes that almost ended his career at McLaren in his 12-race stint with AlphaTauri.

Ricciardo arrived at McLaren as one of Formula 1’s most highly rated drivers but was mystifyingly incapable of coming to terms with Woking’s cars across two different rule sets. The eight-time race winner’s problem stemmed from the McLaren’s particular demands on corner entry, with its comparatively weak front axle needing to be loaded up on braking in a way that didn’t mesh with his driving style. Efforts to adjust his method behind the wheel generated little joy, and he was released from the team last year, with a year still to run on his contract.

AlphaTauri has known issues with its corner-entry characteristics, leading to speculation Ricciardo could be set for another demoralizing stint in the sport. But the Australian said his mental approach was at least partly to blame for his failed McLaren switch and that a new outlook would help him avoid the same outcome.

“I started probably just falling into a little bit of a trap where I was like, ‘Yeah, this car doesn’t suit me and I need to work around this and this and this,’” he said of his McLaren struggles. “You can probably be your own worst enemy as well. I go back to my first quali with McLaren. I did a great quali, and that was when I kind of didn’t know so much yet.

“So I’m not really thinking, ‘I know the car will have limitations.’ I’m sure it’s not going to feel as good as the [Red Bull] I drove a week ago, but I’ll just work with that.”

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Ricciardo said he had used his half-season off the grid to disconnect from the sport and recapture a blank-slate mindset, which he thinks will stand him in good stead wrangling the last-placed car in the constructors championship.

“I’ve driven the simulator, but [until] last week I hadn’t driven a car in eight months,” he said. “I haven’t really been doing anything driving-wise. I haven’t driven F3s or go-karts. I’ve just been really switching off from that.

“I appreciate the [Red Bull] is very good — it’s the best on the grid at the moment — but I just got in it and I drove. I didn’t really think about anything, I just drove and had fun. As a junior coming up you are pretty ignorant and you don’t know much. You just race cars because it’s what you love doing.

“There’s going to be a lot to learn, and I’m not going to solve everything this weekend, so it’s just really about focusing on using the things I do well. I think that will translate into some more positive outcomes.”

The target for the eight-time race winner is to return to Red Bull Racing in Sergio Perez’s seat by 2025 at the latest, but Ricciardo says he was pushing that objective out of his mind to make the most of his AlphaTauri opportunity to prove he’s back at his best.

“That’s the dream, so to speak, but there is no point in me thinking about that,” he said. “There is going to be a lot of work to do here.

“In terms of expectation, there is none. For me, everything I felt driving the car last week is what I want from racing — to be in the moment, enjoying it and not thinking too far ahead.

“I know the car is going to have some limitations, but I’ve got to do the best with what I’ve got. If it’s something I think I can work with, then that’s all I need to feel good behind the wheel again and use some of my experience to push the team.

“As far as this weekend goes, if you ask me where I want to finish, I couldn’t tell you. I just want to know I put everything into it and got a lap I can be proud of.”

Racing on TV, July 20-23

All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted. Thursday, July 20 Stafford Springs 9:00- 11:00pm Friday, July 21 Hungary practice 1 7:25-8:30am Hungary practice 1 7:25-8:30am Hungary practice 2 10:55am- 12:00pm Hungary practice 2 10:55am- 12:00pm …

All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted.

Thursday, July 20

Stafford
Springs		 9:00-
11:00pm

Friday, July 21

Hungary
practice 1		 7:25-8:30am

Hungary
practice 1		 7:25-8:30am

Hungary
practice 2		 10:55am-
12:00pm

Hungary
practice 2		 10:55am-
12:00pm

Pocono
practice/
qualifying		 1:30-3:00pm

Pocono
practice/
qualifying		 3:30-5:00pm

Iowa
practice 1		 4:30-6:00pm

Lime Rock
qualifying		 5:35-5:55pm

Pocono 6:00-8:30pm

Saturday, July 22

Hungary
practice 3		 6:25-7:30am

Hungary
practice 3		 6:25-7:30am

Lime Rock
race 1		 9:05-9:50am

Iowa
qualifying		 9:30-
10:30am

Hungary
qualifying		 9:55-11:00am

Hungary
qualifying		 9:55-11:00am

Pocono 11:00am-
12:00pm
pre-race
12:00-2:00pm
race

Iowa 11:00am-
12:20pm

Lime Rock
race		 12:00-3:00pm

Kent
qualifying
1		 2:00-3:00pm

Suzuka 2:00-3:00pm
(D)

Iowa race 1 3:00-5:00pm

Pocono
practice/
qualifying		 3:00-5:00pm

Misano 3:00-4:00pm
(D)

Lime Rock
race 2		 3:05-3:50pm

Washougal 4:00pm

Lime Rock 4:15-5:55pm

Pocono 5:00-5:30pm
pre-race
5:30-8:30pm
race

Sunday, July 23

Hungarian
GP		 7:30-8:55am
pre-race
8:55-11:00am

Hungarian
GP		 7:30-8:55am
pre-race
8:55-11:00am

Iowa
warmup		 11:05-
11:30am

Washougal 12:00-2:00pm
(R)

Kent
qualifying 2		 1:30-3:00pm
(D)

Iowa race 2 2:00-2:30pm
pre-race
2:30-4:30pm
race

Pocono 2:00-2:30pm
pre-race
2:30-6:30pm
race

Kent
finals		 4:00-7:00pm

Key: SDD: Same day delay; D = delayed; R = Repeat/Replay

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  • The Trans Am Series airs in 60-minute highlight shows in primetime on the MAVTV Network. For those wishing to tune in live, the entire lineup of SpeedTour events will stream for free on the SpeedTour TV YouTube page. SpeedTour TV will also air non-stop activity on Saturday and Sunday (SVRA, IGT and Trans Am). You can also watch all Trans Am event activity on the Trans Am YouTube page and Facebook page.
  • All NTT IndyCar Series stream live on Peacock Premium.