The politician was included as an official race photographer at the event last weekend.<\/p>\n
He attended Saturday\u2019s qualifying session and the race on Sunday alongside another Czech photographer, Jiri Krenek.<\/p>\n
Pavel was also seen chatting to FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem in the paddock.<\/p>\n
The President is said to have a passion for photography and motorsports, and previously snapped at Le Mans 24 and the Moto GP earlier this year.<\/p>\n
He has also travelled to the US and Saudi Arabia for NASCAR and the Dakar Rally.<\/p>\n
Pavel\u2019s photos have even been displayed at the National Technical Museum in Prague.<\/p>\n
While a photo album he produced sold for nearly $50,000 in a charity auction.<\/p>\n
His exploits have led him to go viral on social media, piquing the interest of racing fanatics.<\/p>\n
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Pavel, 64, assumed the office of President in March 2023, having previously served as Chair of the NATO Military Committee between 2015 and 2018.<\/p>\n
He is also a former army general, having held the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces between 2012 and 2015.<\/p>\n
Now his hobbies include photographing motor racing with the head of state trackside to see Lando Norris take the chequered flag in Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer at the Hungarian Grand Prix has gone viral after being spotted with his own security detail.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[402108,402096,72756,402099,402083,52486,378832,402106,402088,402101,402100,402094,392376,402103,402084,64,63,22615,2685,402102,402087,402116,380919,817,402113,402086,38854,402085,402107,939,402110,402115,402097,62756,38311,1737,402090,402098,402114,806,955,402109,402092,402082,40167,380883,402089,46907,1314,85,402112,8825,380897,376957,402095,402111,402104,380229,402081,167550,392688,393129,378658,402093,402105,402091,20988,380907,402079,380979,74823,402080,96398,4050,377211],"class_list":["post-828812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-s-photos","tag-s-qualifying-session","tag-72756","tag-2012-and-2015-now","tag-2015-and-2018-he","tag-4k","tag-378832","tag-a-charity-auction-his-exploits","tag-a-former-army-general","tag-a-looming-piastri-pavel","tag-a-passion","tag-a-photo-album","tag-a-photographer","tag-an-official-race-photographer","tag-another-czech-photographer","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chair","tag-chief","tag-czech-republic-president-petr-pavel","tag-czech-republic-president-petr-pavel-fox-sports","tag-earlier-this-year-he","tag-every-practice","tag-f1","tag-f1-photographer","tag-fia-president-mohammed-ben-sulayem","tag-heads","tag-his-hobbies","tag-his-own-security-detail","tag-hungary","tag-incognito-appearance","tag-jiri-krenek-pavel","tag-just-1-the-politician","tag-kayo","tag-kayo-sports","tag-lando-norris","tag-last-weekend-he","tag-le-mans-24","tag-march-2023","tag-motor","tag-nascar","tag-nearly-50","tag-photography-and-motorsports","tag-prague-while","tag-president","tag-qualifying-session-and-race","tag-racing-fanatics-carlos-sainz","tag-saturday","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-state-trackside","tag-sunday","tag-the-2026-fia-formula-one-world-championship-live","tag-the-camera","tag-the-chequered-flag","tag-the-czech-armed-forces","tag-the-dakar-rally-pavel","tag-the-event","tag-the-general-staff","tag-the-head","tag-the-hungarian-grand-prix","tag-the-interest","tag-the-man","tag-the-moto-gp","tag-the-national-technical-museum","tag-the-nato-military-committee","tag-the-office","tag-the-only-place","tag-the-paddock-the-president","tag-the-position","tag-the-race","tag-the-us-and-saudi-arabia","tag-twist","tag-viral","tag-your-first-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828812","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=828812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}