STRATEGY GUIDE: What are the tactical options for the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix?
Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams in the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring.
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Qualifying on Saturday was set up as a battle royal between the McLarens, so it came as quite a surprise to see Charles Leclerc pop up at the end to steal – there’s really no other suitable word – a pole position that had been highlighted in papaya from the start of FP1.
McLaren looked bemused rather than dejected in the aftermath. They were comfortably the quickest cars over a single lap, and look to have the long run pace to match – but overtaking is difficult here, and their internecine strategic battle now has to cater for an extra, scarlet variable.
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