The loyal Tifosi were convinced ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend: the tight Hungaroring suits Ferrari\u2019s strengths better than the high-speed circuit at Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n
And now this: Barcelona winner Lewis Hamilton was fastest in the second Hungarian practice session, ahead of Silverstone winner Charles Leclerc \u2013 it looks like a front row all in red, something we last saw in Mexico in 2023, with Charles Leclerc ahead of Carlos Sainz.<\/p>\n
Can the Tifosi dream? Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur said after Ferrari\u2019s best Friday yet: \u201cAll well and good, but we don\u2019t want to show the best Friday \u2013 we want to show the best Sunday!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s true, it was quite decent today; the car\u2019s balance is fine, and the latest improvements are delivering on the stopwatch exactly what we\u2019d hoped for from our work in the wind tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut qualifying is still a long way off. We need to keep pace with how the track develops and continue to fine-tune the set-up. We need to improve in every sector of the circuit and perform even better than we did today. Only then might we be able to think about pole position.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA good result here in Hungary is crucial for morale, because after that we head into the Formula 1 summer break, and the team should go on holiday feeling positive. On the other hand \u2013 there aren\u2019t any more points up for grabs in Hungary than at Silverstone or Spa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The loyal Tifosi were convinced ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend: the tight Hungaroring suits Ferrari\u2019s strengths…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-822598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822598","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=822598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}