With so many races in quick succession, who can even remember what any of the the tracks are anymore? *Checks notes* This week it was time for Hungary! Apparently an often hectic and technical track that some drivers love and some drivers don’t, depending on how much of a geek they are. Look out for grumpy drivers and happy drivers…
Hungary
Quali is exciting. Hungaroring-master Lewis is back on pole. Can he fight Max for the win?
No.
The driver substitute situation was the same as in France, with Roberto Merhi fast becoming a part of the F2 2022 furniture and David Beckmann remaining as much a piece of F2 furniture as it feels like he’s always been. Lucky for Merhi and Beckmann, unlucky for Boschung and Hughes, because apparently drivers LOVE this track, as they kept saying. All weekend. Their reason? Because it’s fast and cool? No, because it’s really technical. The geeks…
The drivers all got very sweary this weekend, and whilst we all know that swearing is neither big nor clever, it’s included here because I always report 100% accurate facts and it’s definitely not because I think drivers swearing on the radio is really funny. The one thing that didn’t have any swearing was Louis Delétraz’s Twitch stream from the paddock, although his description of the COVID-19 test was perhaps even more offensive. Poor Louis, he looked genuinely disturbed…
The ever-revolving driver door at Trident continued to go around, as Boschung must have sorted out some money and was back, replacing Boccolacci, who replaced Tveter, who replaced Boschung…
