{"id":814955,"date":"2026-07-21T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814955\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:13:11","slug":"oscar-piastri-among-drivers-skipping-fp1-as-rookies-join-f1-hungary-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814955\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri among drivers skipping FP1 as rookies join F1 Hungary weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mclaren\/10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> junior Leonardo Fornaroli will get his second opportunity of 2026 to take part in a grand prix weekend, deputising for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/828689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> in FP1 at the Hungaroring.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-rated Italian, who is the reigning F2 champion, took over Lando Norris&#8217; MCL40 in Barcelona last month, and will now get his second practice outing with the squad at this weekend&#8217;s Hungarian Grand Prix, taking over Piastri&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a key weekend for both Fornaroli and McLaren as the squad is bringing a significant batch of upgrades to Budapest in a bid to make further inroads on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mercedes\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a>, while Ferrari&#8217;s SF-26 has also proved a faster car than the McLaren in the corners.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren has been extremely impressed by Fornaroli, with team principal Andrea Stella confirmed in recent weeks that the Woking squad is looking at opportunities for the 21-year-old elsewhere on the grid. Fornaroli has most recently been linked with the second Haas seat alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/oliver-bearman\/947083\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oliver Bearman<\/a>, with incumbent Esteban Ocon&#8217;s long-term future unclear right now.<\/p>\n<p>Bearman will also sit out FP1 in Budapest as Haas brings in Toyota protege Ryo Hirakawa.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/alpine\/24858\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alpine<\/a> reserve driver Paul Aron gets his third FP1 outing of the year. Following two sessions on loan at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/audi\/49022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Audi<\/a>, in Barcelona and Austria, Aron will replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/franco-colapinto\/875899\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Franco Colapinto<\/a> at Alpine in FP1.<\/p>\n<p>F1 teams are required by regulation to enter rookie drivers in four FP1 sessions across the season, two per car.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren junior Leonardo Fornaroli will get his second opportunity of 2026 to take part in a grand prix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[821,64,63,814,817,376206,813,816,1802,5241,206380,913,5242,2333,390313,59963,142608,85],"class_list":["post-814955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-alpine","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belgian-gp","tag-f1","tag-f1-belgian-grand-prix","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-franco-colapinto","tag-haas-f1-team","tag-leonardo-fornaroli","tag-mclaren","tag-oliver-bearman","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-oscar-piastri-among-drivers-skipping-fp1-as-rookies-join-f1-hungary-weekend","tag-paul-aron","tag-ryo-hirakawa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}