{"id":40616,"date":"2025-08-02T00:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40616\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:38:04","slug":"what-we-learned-in-friday-practice-for-the-f1-hungarian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40616\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learned in Friday practice for the F1 Hungarian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After topping both of Formula 1&#8217;s practice sessions on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lando-norris\/840487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lando Norris<\/a> bolted out of the gate to stamp his early authority on the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend. It&#8217;s only Friday, but the Briton will be cautiously optimistic as he dissects the data from his running at the Hungaroring &#8211; both times with an advantage over his championship-leading team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/869530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The McLarens ran riot in practice. In both sessions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/840485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> posed as the fastest runner not dressed in papaya, but he was a fair way off Norris&#8217; pace; in FP1, the Monegasque&#8217;s deficit fell to 0.217s. In FP2, this was 0.399s. On a rear-limited circuit like the Hungaroring, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> was always likely to have a strong advantage; the MCL39 has demonstrated throughout the season that it shines in traction zones, and the stability of the car has also ensured that both drivers have a sensible platform to work with.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After topping both of Formula 1&#8217;s practice sessions on Friday, Lando Norris bolted out of the gate to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,27234,27235,82],"class_list":["post-40616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-hungarian-gp","tag-hungaroring","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}