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  Name              = [[Hungary|Hungarian]] Grand Prix |
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! colspan=2 |'''[[Hungary|Hungarian]] Grand Prix'''
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|Country  || {{flagiconHungary}} Hungary
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   Most_wins_driver  = {{flagicon|GER}}[[Michael Schumacher]] (4) |
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   Winner            = {{flagicon|GBR}}[[Lewis Hamilton]] |
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   Pole_driver        = {{flagicon|GBR}}[[Lewis Hamilton]] |
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   Pole_time          = 1:19.781 |
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|  Race length km      ||   306.66  
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   Fastest_lap_driver = {{flagicon|FIN}}[[Kimi Räikkönen]] |
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   Fastest_lap_team  = {{flagicon|ITA}}[[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] |
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|  Most wins driver    ||   {{flagiconGER}} [[Michael Schumacher]] (4)  
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|  Winner              ||   {{flagiconGBR}} [[Lewis Hamilton]]  
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|  Winning team        ||   {{flagiconGBR}} [[McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
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|  Winning time        ||   1:35:52.991  
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|  Pole driver          ||   {{flagiconGBR}} [[Lewis Hamilton]]  
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|  Pole time            ||   1:19.781  
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|  Fastest lap driver  ||   {{flagiconFIN}} [[Kimi Räikkönen]]  
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The first '''Hungarian Grand Prix''' ({{lang-hu|Magyar Nagydíj}}) was held on [[June 21]], [[1936]] over a {{convert|3.1|mi|km|sing=on}} track laid out in [[Népliget]], a park in [[Budapest]]. The [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Auto Union]], and [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] teams all sent three cars and the event drew a very large crowd. However, politics and the ensuing [[World War II|war]] meant the end of [[Grand Prix motor racing]] in the country for fifty years.
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The first '''Hungarian Grand Prix''' ({{lang-hu|Magyar Nagydíj}}) was held on [[June 21]], [[1936]] over a 3.1mi track laid out in [[Népliget]], a park in [[Budapest]]. The [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Auto Union]], and [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] teams all sent three cars and the event drew a very large crowd. However, politics and the ensuing [[World War II|war]] meant the end of [[Grand Prix motor racing]] in the country for fifty years.
  
 
A major coup by [[Bernie Ecclestone]], the [[1986 Hungarian Grand Prix]] was the first [[Formula One]] race to take place behind the [[Iron Curtain]]. Held at the twisty [[Hungaroring]] near [[Budapest]], the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar.  Run in the heat of a central European summer, it also holds the distinction of being the only current Grand Prix venue that had never seen a wet race up until the [[2006 Hungarian Grand Prix]]. The first Grand Prix saw 200,000 people spectating, although tickets were expensive at the time.  Today, the support is still very enthusiastic, particularly from Finns, mainly because the Finns and the Hungarians both speak [[Finno-Ugric languages]], which are not part of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] family of [[languages]].
 
A major coup by [[Bernie Ecclestone]], the [[1986 Hungarian Grand Prix]] was the first [[Formula One]] race to take place behind the [[Iron Curtain]]. Held at the twisty [[Hungaroring]] near [[Budapest]], the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar.  Run in the heat of a central European summer, it also holds the distinction of being the only current Grand Prix venue that had never seen a wet race up until the [[2006 Hungarian Grand Prix]]. The first Grand Prix saw 200,000 people spectating, although tickets were expensive at the time.  Today, the support is still very enthusiastic, particularly from Finns, mainly because the Finns and the Hungarians both speak [[Finno-Ugric languages]], which are not part of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] family of [[languages]].
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! Number of wins
 
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! Driver
 
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| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]
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| {{flagiconGermany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]
 
| [[1994 Hungarian Grand Prix|1994]], [[1998 Hungarian Grand Prix|1998]], [[2001 Hungarian Grand Prix|2001]], [[2004 Hungarian Grand Prix|2004]]
 
| [[1994 Hungarian Grand Prix|1994]], [[1998 Hungarian Grand Prix|1998]], [[2001 Hungarian Grand Prix|2001]], [[2004 Hungarian Grand Prix|2004]]
 
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! 3
 
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| {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
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| {{flagiconBrazil}} [[Ayrton Senna]]
 
| [[1988 Hungarian Grand Prix|1988]], [[1991 Hungarian Grand Prix|1991]], [[1992 Hungarian Grand Prix|1992]]
 
| [[1988 Hungarian Grand Prix|1988]], [[1991 Hungarian Grand Prix|1991]], [[1992 Hungarian Grand Prix|1992]]
 
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| {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Nelson Piquet]]
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| {{flagiconBrazil}} [[Nelson Piquet]]
 
| [[1986 Hungarian Grand Prix|1986]], [[1987 Hungarian Grand Prix|1987]]
 
| [[1986 Hungarian Grand Prix|1986]], [[1987 Hungarian Grand Prix|1987]]
 
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| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Damon Hill]]
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| {{flagiconUK}} [[Damon Hill]]
 
| [[1993 Hungarian Grand Prix|1993]], [[1995 Hungarian Grand Prix|1995]]
 
| [[1993 Hungarian Grand Prix|1993]], [[1995 Hungarian Grand Prix|1995]]
 
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| {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Jacques Villeneuve]]
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| {{flagiconCanada}} [[Jacques Villeneuve]]
 
| [[1996 Hungarian Grand Prix|1996]], [[1997 Hungarian Grand Prix|1997]]
 
| [[1996 Hungarian Grand Prix|1996]], [[1997 Hungarian Grand Prix|1997]]
 
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| {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Mika Häkkinen]]
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| {{flagiconFinland}} [[Mika Häkkinen]]
 
| [[1999 Hungarian Grand Prix|1999]], [[2000 Hungarian Grand Prix|2000]]
 
| [[1999 Hungarian Grand Prix|1999]], [[2000 Hungarian Grand Prix|2000]]
 
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===Year By Year===
 
===Year By Year===
  
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! [[2007 Formula One season|2007]]
 
! [[2007 Formula One season|2007]]
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|{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Lewis Hamilton]]
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|{{flagiconUnited Kingdom}} [[Lewis Hamilton]]
 
|[[McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
|[[McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
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! [[2006 Formula One season|2006]]
 
! [[2006 Formula One season|2006]]
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| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Jenson Button]]
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| {{flagiconUK}} [[Jenson Button]]
 
| [[Honda F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Honda F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
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! [[2005 Formula One season|2005]]
 
! [[2005 Formula One season|2005]]
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| {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Kimi Räikkönen]]
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| {{flagiconFinland}} [[Kimi Räikkönen]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
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! [[2004 Formula One season|2004]]
 
! [[2004 Formula One season|2004]]
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| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]
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| {{flagiconGermany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
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! [[2003 Formula One season|2003]]
 
! [[2003 Formula One season|2003]]
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| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Fernando Alonso]]
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| {{flagiconSpain}} [[Fernando Alonso]]
 
| [[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
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! [[2002 Formula One season|2002]]
 
! [[2002 Formula One season|2002]]
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| {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Rubens Barrichello]]
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| {{flagiconBrazil}} [[Rubens Barrichello]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
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! [[2001 Formula One season|2001]]
 
! [[2001 Formula One season|2001]]
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| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]  
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| {{flagiconGermany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]  
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[2000 Formula One season|2000]]
 
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| {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Mika Häkkinen]]  
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| {{flagiconFinland}} [[Mika Häkkinen]]  
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1999 Formula One season|1999]]
 
! [[1999 Formula One season|1999]]
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| {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Mika Häkkinen]]  
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| {{flagiconFinland}} [[Mika Häkkinen]]  
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1998 Formula One season|1998]]
 
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| {{flagiconGermany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]  
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1997 Formula One season|1997]]
 
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| {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Jacques Villeneuve]]
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| {{flagiconCanada}} [[Jacques Villeneuve]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1996 Formula One season|1996]]
 
! [[1996 Formula One season|1996]]
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| {{flagiconCanada}} [[Jacques Villeneuve]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1995 Formula One season|1995]]
 
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| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Damon Hill]]
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| {{flagiconUK}} [[Damon Hill]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1994 Formula One season|1994]]
 
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| [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]]-[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
 
| [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]]-[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1993 Formula One season|1993]]
 
! [[1993 Formula One season|1993]]
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| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Damon Hill]]
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| {{flagiconUK}} [[Damon Hill]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1992 Formula One season|1992]]
 
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| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1991 Formula One season|1991]]
 
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| {{flagiconBrazil}} [[Ayrton Senna]]  
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1990 Formula One season|1990]]
 
! [[1990 Formula One season|1990]]
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| {{flagiconBelgium}} [[Thierry Boutsen]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Renault F1|Renault]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1989 Formula One season|1989]]
 
! [[1989 Formula One season|1989]]
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| {{flagiconUK}} [[Nigel Mansell]]  
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1988 Formula One season|1988]]
 
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| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
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! [[1987 Formula One season|1987]]
 
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| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
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! [[1986 Formula One season|1986]]
 
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| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[Hungaroring]]
 
| [[1986 Hungarian Grand Prix|Report]]
 
| [[1986 Hungarian Grand Prix|Report]]
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! 1937<br>-85
 
! 1937<br>-85
 
|COLSPAN=4| ''Not held''
 
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! [[1936 Grand Prix season|1936]]
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| [[Alfa Romeo in motorsport|Alfa Romeo]]
 
| [[Alfa Romeo in motorsport|Alfa Romeo]]
 
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* [http://www.hungaroinfo.com/formel1 Official Website of the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix]
 
* [http://www.hungaroinfo.com/formel1 Official Website of the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix]
  
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[[Category:Grand Prix before Formula One]]
 
[[Category:Grand Prix before Formula One]]
 
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[[Category:Hungarian Grand Prix| ]]
 
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Latest revision as of 22:03, 4 November 2009

Hungaroring.jpg
Hungarian Grand Prix
Country 22px-Flag of Hungary.png Hungary
Circuit Hungaroring
Circuit image
Laps 70
Circuit length km 4.38
Circuit length mi 2.72
Race length km 306.66
Most wins driver 22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher (4)
Most wins constructor 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Williams (7)
22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png McLaren (7)
Race length mi 190.55
Current year 2007
Winner 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Lewis Hamilton
Winning team 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png McLaren-Mercedes
Winning time 1:35:52.991
Pole driver 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Lewis Hamilton
Pole team 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png McLaren-Mercedes
Pole time 1:19.781
Fastest lap driver 22px-Flag of Finland.png Kimi Räikkönen
Fastest lap team 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Ferrari
Fastest lap 1:20.047


The first Hungarian Grand Prix (Hungarian: Magyar Nagydíj) was held on June 21, 1936 over a 3.1mi track laid out in Népliget, a park in Budapest. The Mercedes-Benz, Auto Union, and Ferrari teams all sent three cars and the event drew a very large crowd. However, politics and the ensuing war meant the end of Grand Prix motor racing in the country for fifty years.

A major coup by Bernie Ecclestone, the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix was the first Formula One race to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Held at the twisty Hungaroring near Budapest, the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar. Run in the heat of a central European summer, it also holds the distinction of being the only current Grand Prix venue that had never seen a wet race up until the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix. The first Grand Prix saw 200,000 people spectating, although tickets were expensive at the time. Today, the support is still very enthusiastic, particularly from Finns, mainly because the Finns and the Hungarians both speak Finno-Ugric languages, which are not part of the Indo-European family of languages.

Due to the nature of the track, narrow, twisty and often dusty because of under-use, the Hungarian Grand Prix is associated with processional races, with sometimes many cars following one another, unable to pass. Thierry Boutsen demonstrated this perfectly in 1990, keeping his slower Williams car in front of champion-elect Ayrton Senna, unable to find a way by. The secret to a winning performance at Hungaroring, as well as qualifying well, is pit strategy, best demonstrated in 1998, where Michael Schumacher's Ferrari team changed his strategy mid-race before Schumacher put in one of his finest drives to build up a winning margin after all the stops had been made. Passing is a rarity here, although the 1989 race saw a famously bullish performance from Nigel Mansell in the Ferrari, who started from 12th on the grid and passed car after car, finally taking the lead in splendid opportunist style when Ayrton Senna was baulked by a slower runner. The circuit was modified slightly in 2003 in an attempt to allow more passing.

Other notable occasions in Budapest include first Grand Prix wins for Damon Hill in 1993, Fernando Alonso (in 2003), the first Grand Prix winner from Spain, who also became the youngest ever driver to win a GP and Jenson Button in an incident-packed race in 2006. Also noteworthy is Damon Hill's stunning near win in the unfancied Arrows-Yamaha in 1997, when his car lost drive on the last lap causing him to coast in second place.

In 2001, Michael Schumacher equalled Alain Prost's then record 51 Grand Prix wins at the Hungaroring, in the drive which also secured his 4th World Title.

The 2006 Grand Prix was the first to be held here in wet conditions. It also saw Mansell's seventeen-year-old record of winning from 12th broken, as Button took his victory from 14th place on the grid.

Sponsors

Pop 84 Magyar Nagydíj 1988-1990
Marlboro Magyar Nagydíj 1991-2005
Shell Magyar Nagydíj 2006
Agip Magyar Nagydíj 2007
ING Magyar Nagydíj 2008

Winners of the Hungarian Grands Prix

Repeat Winners

Only includes World Championship events

Number of wins Driver Years
4 22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004
3 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Ayrton Senna 1988, 1991, 1992
2 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Nelson Piquet 1986, 1987
22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Damon Hill 1993, 1995
22px-Flag of the Canada.png Jacques Villeneuve 1996, 1997
22px-Flag of Finland.png Mika Häkkinen 1999, 2000

Year By Year

A light gray background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship.

Year Driver Constructor Location Report
2007 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes Hungaroring Report
2006 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Jenson Button Honda Hungaroring Report
2005 22px-Flag of Finland.png Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes Hungaroring Report
2004 22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher Ferrari Hungaroring Report
2003 22px-Flag of Spain.png Fernando Alonso Renault Hungaroring Report
2002 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Rubens Barrichello Ferrari Hungaroring Report
2001 22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher Ferrari Hungaroring Report
2000 22px-Flag of Finland.png Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes Hungaroring Report
1999 22px-Flag of Finland.png Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes Hungaroring Report
1998 22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher Ferrari Hungaroring Report
1997 22px-Flag of the Canada.png Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault Hungaroring Report
1996 22px-Flag of the Canada.png Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault Hungaroring Report
1995 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Damon Hill Williams-Renault Hungaroring Report
1994 22px-Flag of Germany.png Michael Schumacher Benetton-Ford Hungaroring Report
1993 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Damon Hill Williams-Renault Hungaroring Report
1992 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Hungaroring Report
1991 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Hungaroring Report
1990 22px-Flag of Belgium (civil).png Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault Hungaroring Report
1989 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png Nigel Mansell Ferrari Hungaroring Report
1988 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Hungaroring Report
1987 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda Hungaroring Report
1986 22px-Flag of Brazil.png Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda Hungaroring Report
1937
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1936 3dflagsdotcom italy2bs.gif Tazio Nuvolari Alfa Romeo Népliget Report


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Races in the Formula One championship:
2007 championship Grand Prix events:

Australian | Malaysian | Bahrain | Spanish | Monaco | Canadian | U.S. | French | British
German | European| Hungarian | Turkish | Italian | Belgian | Japanese | Chinese | Brazilian

Past championship Grand Prix events:

Argentine | Austrian | Dutch | Indy 500 | Las Vegas | Luxembourg | Mexican | Morocco
Pacific | Pescara | Portuguese | San Marino | South African | Swedish | Swiss | USA East | USA West

Confirmed future Grand Prix events:

Abu Dhabi | Korean | European | Singapore

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