{"id":70336,"date":"2025-08-15T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:47:10","slug":"shouldnt-be-a-factor-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70336\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn’t be a factor in sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson fumed after the wind-affected Hungarian Grand Prix, claiming that “breeze shouldn’t be a factor in sport.”<\/p>\n

McLaren<\/a> has dominated the 2025 Formula 1 season so far with a 299-point lead over second-placed Ferrari<\/a> at the point of the summer break. The Woking outfit has accumulated 11 grand prix wins and one sprint race victory so far this year.<\/p>\n

The strong form looked to continue in Hungary with Lando Norris<\/a> topping the timesheets in the first two practice sessions and Oscar Piastri<\/a> taking top spot in the third. But, when it came to the all-important qualifying, it was Charles Leclerc<\/a> who stole pole position after wind hampered the McLarens.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at Formula 1 motor racing. We\u2019ve reached a point now where six drivers in six different cars can be separated by less than a tenth of a second, and the winner is the one whose car is least affected by whatever breeze happens to be blowing at turn six that day,” Clarkson argued in a column for The Sunday Times<\/a>. “Breeze shouldn\u2019t be a factor in sport, for God\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri explained after the qualifying session, when he secured the second spot on the starting grid, that the wind changed between Q2 and Q3.<\/p>\n

“It always sounds so pathetic blaming things on the wind, but the wind basically did a 180 from Q2 to Q3 and just meant a lot of the corners felt completely different,” the Australian driver told the media.<\/p>\n

“Difficult to judge in those conditions and maybe not the best execution, but I was a bit surprised that we couldn\u2019t go quicker than that.”<\/p>\n

\"Lando <\/p>\n

Lando Norris, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Sam Bagnall \/ Sutton Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Norris reported similar issues to his team-mate, stating:\u00a0“Charles did a good job on the last lap, [he] probably risked a little bit more in these conditions.<\/p>\n

“The conditions changed a lot and really seemed to punish us in a bigger way. Not too many complaints, we thought we both did some good laps at the end and we were just slow, so nothing to complain of but Charles did a good job.”<\/p>\n

Norris went on to celebrate the victory in Budapest, closing the gap to championship leader Piastri to just nine points going into the summer break.<\/p>\n

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