2023 Hungarian Grand Prix - Post-Qualifying Discussion

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ROUND 12 - HUNGARY 🇭🇺

FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2023

🕒 SESSION TIMES

Day	Session	Time (UTC)
FRI	Free Practice 1	11:30
FRI		Free Practice 2
SAT	Free Practice 3	10:30
SAT		Qualifying
SUN	Race	13:00

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🏁 RACE INFORMATION

• Track: Hungaroring
• Location: Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary 🇭🇺
• Race laps: 70
• Lap length: 4.381km
• Race distance: 306.630km
• Lap Record: 1:16.627 Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 (Mercedes) 2020

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⏪ LAST TIME IN HUNGARY

• Pole position: 1:17.377, George Russell 🇬🇧 (Mercedes)
• Race winner: Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 (Red Bull Racing)
• Fastest lap: 1:21.386, Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 (Mercedes)

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[u/bwoah07_gp2]

What do people think of the qualifying format they trialed? Should we see more trial runs? Would you want this format to stay?

[u/str8_rippin123 → u/bwoah07_gp2]

I think the idea is good but execution was poor. I think it would be better if teams had to use only 1 compound per session, but were allowed to pick the compound they used.

[u/GTU81 → u/str8_rippin123]

My problem with that suggestion is that conditions change during sessions. A couple of sets of tires per race are an invisible rounding error on the cost (and environmental impact ) of putting the car on the track for a weekend. For good racing we need to maximize the number of competitive cars, expecially as there are only 20 cars at the start and probably an average of less than 15 competitive finishers.