George Russell set the pace in a wet FP1 of F1 Hungarian GP from Oscar Piastri and Lance Stroll amid red flags.

With a red flag for Red Bull’s Sergio Perez after his grass moment leading to a crash in early moments of FP1 of F1 Hungarian GP, it did not allow anyone to have a dry run as rain started to fall when the session was red-flagged to clear the car.

Some of the drivers braved out early on with Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas having a spin, but there was a lull spell. They all did some running towards the end when there was another red flag for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz who spun and stuck on the kerbs.

The marshals, though, pushed him back on track for him to continue. The red flag was already waved by then. There were off moments for Williams’ Alexander Albon, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso and also AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda in tricky conditions.

Only 13 drivers could manage to set a lap time where Alfa Zhou Guanyu did so on medium and AlphaTauri’s Tsunoda on the soft in the dry running they got. Mercedes’ George Russell set the pace with a 1m38.795s lap to top FP1 in F1 Hungarian GP.

He pipped McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in the end moments with Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll third ahead of the other McLaren of Lando Norris. The Top 5 was rounded by Alonso with Bottas in sixth from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Gunayu.

Williams’ Logan Sargeant was ninth from Haas pair of Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen, while Tsunoda and Williams’ Albon rounded the 13 time setters which left seven drivers without a lap time even though they did few laps.

The drivers without a lap time were Red Bull’s Max Verstappen & Perez, Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, Alpine’s Pierre Gasly & Esteban Ocon, AlphaTauri’ Daniel Ricciardo and Sainz.  The new PU element list for F1 Hunagrian GP saw Ocon taking a new ICE, TC, MGU-H and MGU-K, with Magnussen also taking a new MGU-K.

Here’s the list of PU elements: https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/decision-document/2023%20Hungarian%20Grand%20Prix%20-%20New%20PU%20elements%20for%20this%20Competition.pdf

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