{"id":59218,"date":"2021-07-28T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/index.php\/2021\/07\/28\/ferrari-doubt-hungarian-gp-victory-challenge-despite-recent-form\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:09:52","slug":"ferrari-doubt-hungarian-gp-victory-challenge-despite-recent-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/ferrari-doubt-hungarian-gp-victory-challenge-despite-recent-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari doubt Hungarian GP victory challenge despite recent form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ferrari doesn&#8217;t believe victory is a realistic aim despite their recent form heading to the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Scuderia has been back near their best with Charles Leclerc&#8217;s pair of poles in Monaco and Baku, followed by an unfortunate second place to Lewis Hamilton at Silverstone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since Austria, Ferrari has also shown a very strong race pace, as highlighted by the Monegasque leading 50 laps of the race almost a fortnight ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=14898;more-complete-leclerc-rates-silverstone-p2-among-best-f1-races&amp;catid=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;More complete&#8217; Leclerc rates Silverstone P2 among best F1 races<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=14878;leclerc-sees-no-risk-in-long-term-ferrari-deal-denies-red-bull-rumour&amp;catid=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leclerc sees &#8216;no risk&#8217; in long-term Ferrari deal, denies Red Bull rumour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=14810;binotto-happy-as-ferrari-focus-on-operational-gains-over-mclaren-fight&amp;catid=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binotto happy as Ferrari focus on operational gains over McLaren fight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">However, while the Hungaroring has been a strong circuit for the Italian team and would appear to suit this year&#8217;s car, Leclerc is tempering expectations a little.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s good to be an optimist, and I think we all want to be an optimist after such a good performance in the last three races, to be honest,\u201d he told&nbsp;<em>Motorsport.com.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;But on the other hand, we also need to be realistic. We are in a good mood, but I feel like going for the win in Budapest could be a bit optimistic. So realistically, I think I will be happy if we are just behind the two top teams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The reason for that is while the Hungaroring has long been one of F1&#8217;s slowest circuits, the original perception of &#8216;Monaco without the barriers&#8217; is shifting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBudapest recently has become actually a medium to high-speed track with these cars,\u201d Carlos Sainz explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-59217\" src=\"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race.jpg\" alt=\"20042 hungarian gp race\" width=\"1199\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20042-hungarian-gp-race-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf you look at Monaco and Baku there are second or third gear corners. But Budapest nowadays, with these crazy high-downforce cars, you have a middle sector where you are fourth or fifth gear all the time. So it\u2019s not a pure low-speed track like it used to be in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it will be such a good track for us. I think it\u2019s a great opportunity to be right behind Red Bull and Mercedes, but downforce is still king and we see from data these guys are still ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs we saw at Silverstone, on the hard tyre Lewis had a bit more pace than us and they should be ahead in Hungary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari doesn&#8217;t believe victory is a realistic aim despite their recent form heading to the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-formula-1"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}