McLaren set a scintillating pace on the opening day of practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix – the last event before the summer break – but can any of their rivals cause the championship leaders a headache as we head into the weekend?
McLaren continue supreme run of form
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gapped the field on Friday, with the former – who trails the latter by 16 points in the championship – topping both of Friday’s one-hour practice sessions.
And that was with both Norris and Piastri chasing cleaner laps – our ideal lap data suggesting Piastri could have been much quicker if he had got all his best mini-sectors together (the Australian left 0.28s on the table).
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