2024 Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix Highlights

On Sunday, Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Sergio Pérez powered through the field at the 2024 Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix to bag seventh place and join Dutch teammate Max Verstappen with an important points finish.

The Mexican started 16th on the grid, however put pedal to the metal to slice through the field and claim six points as reigning three-time Formula One champion Verstappen earned 10 in fifth.

Max Verstappen, Driver, Red Bull Racing

Today was a tough race for us, so naturally, that frustrated me as I wanted things to improve. If you look at the whole race, I don’t think we were fast enough; unfortunately, we didn’t have the pace, and the strategy wasn’t working for us today. The high temperatures on the track also meant that the tyres overheated, especially when we tried to overtake throughout the race, which was very tough. We got stuck behind cars and let ourselves get undercut, and I think we just didn’t have our best day. We had to fight back and lost so much time that we lost touch with both the McLarens. As the car’s pace wasn’t as good, we needed to capitalise on the strategy, and we just didn’t manage to do that today. I need to look back at what happened with Lewis. I committed to the move, and I don’t think I broke too late, but we collided. I don’t think we could have beaten McLaren today, but from qualifying yesterday, I did think that P3 was on the cards, so it is a disappointing day all in all.

Sergio Pérez, Driver, Red Bull Racing:

That was the maximum we could achieve today; overtaking was impossible in the first stint on the hard. It was an aggressive strategy to begin on the hard, and it worked well for us; from the start, it was about putting it all together, making the right calls and the proper progress. My Team had to rebuild the car overnight, and it was not one hundred per cent on set-up; some correlation was off, so it’s positive I was able to feel at one with the car today, and I am getting the feeling back; this is a good boost of confidence. After my crash, the Team did an incredible job getting the car on track today. I need to maximise my performance to match their hard work. The only thing that matters to me is my Team and the people working with me, and I have to give my very best to them because they deserve it. I am here keeping my head down; I will keep improving and get back to my form. I think we have the pace to fight at the front, we showed it today and it is just a matter of time until we are back on the podium.

CHRISTIAN HORNER, CEO and Team Principal

It didn’t work out for us today. We seemed to have understeer and then losing that position at the start and conceding back to Lando affected us. We tried giving an overlap to give Max the pace, but to no avail. In parts of the race, the middle sector was where we were looking competitive, but there is plenty for us to try and see how we can improve and come back more robust next weekend. Checo drove a good race today, and his strategy of getting the undercut on George worked well. He also showed a good pace, made good overtakes, and, hopefully, would have gained some reasonable confidence for a strong performance in Spa.

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