After a forgettable weekend in Austria, Ferrari wanted to keep their miserable form behind and start afresh in Hungaroring. The Italian team started their Hungarian GP weekend on positive note, with Sebastian coming home in P1 during rain hit afternoon session.Ferrari brought same Styrian GP setup to Hungarian GP, Team at Maranello were able to rebuilt lost parts in a record time.
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After missing out to validate upgraded package in Styrian GP due to rain and opening lap incident at turn 3. During Friday free practice in Hungary, Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc therefore continued gathering data on the new aero package introduced a week ago. Vettel finishes session in P6 with 1:17.238 and Leclerc finishes comes home in P7 with 1:17.464, both drivers set their fastest times on Yellow Marked Medium Tires.
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Due to heavy rain fall over Budapest, Most of afternoon session wasted in garage for all drivers. After struggling in wet Styrian GP qualifying , Both drivers came out on track in full wet tires to vaildate upgraded SF1000 in wet conditions. In the limited track time, Sebastian Vettel finished session in P1 with 1:40.464.
Charles Leclerc struggled in wet conditions again and his 1:43.725 effort was good for just P10. He is down 3.261 on his teammate on same Tyre.With mixed weather forecast for reminder of weekend, Charles needs to prepare better for tomorrows qualifying.
Drivers Reaction
Sebastian Vettel #5
“I think this morning was ok. This track should be a bit better for us and let’s hope that’s the case tomorrow, but we won’t know until we hit qualifying.
We did more laps than others in the wet, because after the weaknesses we showed last week, we need to understand the car a bit better. We need laps to gain confidence in the car. It’s not a secret that there’s still a lot of homework to do, but overall we seem to be a bit more competitive.
The weather looks like being changeable in the next few days, but if it’s dry like Austria, it’ll be ok as we were also good this morning on a dry track. I am looking forward to tomorrow.”
Charles Leclerc #16
“Today things went better than we expected. We arrived here with basically the same car we had in Austria but it seems to suit this track better, which is good to see. There are fewer straights here compared to the last race venue and here, we are quick around the corners.
This afternoon, in the rain, we struggled a bit as we were trying out a few things and I wasn’t very happy as I was lacking a bit of confidence in the wet, but we’ve seen some positive signs this morning. In my first run on extreme wet tyres I only did two laps, which is not really representative, but looking at Seb’s lap time on the same tyre, he did a great job and there’s probably something positive to take from that.
I am really looking forward to tomorrow. Hopefully we can convert these positive signs in free practice into a positive result in quali and in the race but there’s still quite a lot of work to do on my side and I’ll try to be in a good place tomorrow.”
