Jul 26, 2011
We have been coming to the Hungaroring since 1986 and the city of Budapest has welcomed us from its early days when the Iron Curtain cast a shadow over Hungary right up to the current era, where we find ourselves in thoroughly modern European city, with great culture, night life and the ever-present river Danube running through it.
Times might have changed, but this is still the only Formula 1 venue in Eastern Europe, which means it draws fans from a wide area, for whom this is the one accessible venue on the calendar. Those fans have occasionally found it hard to stay awake on Sunday afternoon, as the combination of a good night out in Hungary’s capital city, followed by a long and generally processional race could be quite soporific. That is unlikely to be the case this year. We have already seen some of the less exciting venues deliver exciting races this year, thanks to the shake up in the rules and that is most likely to be the case again this weekend. DRS should definitely make overtaking a relatively straightforward task down the pit straight, while tyre choice should shake up the strategies. Pirelli is bringing its stickiest rubber for this low grip track, that take a day or two to rubber in and although we have seen the Soft and Supersoft in action before, the last time being Montreal, they have not had to operate at air temperatures in the high twenties before. It will be interesting to see how they stand up to the sixteen slow but flowing turns of the Hungaroring.
Like all the teams, Scuderia Toro Rosso has dashed from one Ring to the next – Nurburgring to Hungaroring – to be ready to take to the track on Friday morning. The STR6 will be in much the same trim as it was in Germany, given the short space of time between the races, although of course for the slow speed track, we will be throwing all the aero downforce at it that we can find.
Credit: Toro Rosso (www.scuderiatororosso.com)
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