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F1 Hungarian GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP3 & Qualifying
Saturday's action from the 11th round of the 2023 Formula 1 season
F1 begins its final double-header before the summer break at the Hungaroring which hosts the 11th round of the 2023 season, with Red Bull still unbeaten this year.
Max Verstappen is on a run of six consecutive wins, and eight in total this season, to push out his F1 world championship lead to 99 points over team-mate Sergio Perez.
But the big talking point coming into this weekend has been the return of Daniel Ricciardo who has replaced Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri for the rest of the season.
Friday's running was topped by Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, with no Red Bulls in the top 10 at the end of a day complicated by a lack of dry laps.
Saturday's action begins at 11:30am BST with FP3, with qualifying taking place at 3pm BST.
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Unusually for an event in 2023, Max Verstappen has yet to end a session on top this weekend. That's after Lewis Hamilton topped final practice on Saturday, while his Mercedes team-mate George Russell in a wet FP1 and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) shared Friday glory between them. Will Verstappen be able to right that statistic come the end of Q3?
Good afternoon everybody, welcome back to our live text coverage of Saturday's action at the Hungaroring. Qualifying is just under 20 minutes away and we'll bring you all the action as it happens.
That's all from us. We'll be back later for the build-up to qualifying, which gets going at 3pm BST.
Here is the full FP3 report:
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Ricciardo's progress is going well as he ends FP3 three tenths clear of team-mate Tsunoda.
No one is challenging the best lap of the session, leaving Lewis Hamilton to lead the way in his Mercedes from the Red Bull duo of Verstappen and Perez.
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The chequered flag is out as FP3 comes to a close.
Magnussen had a blistering sector one, setting the best time, but could only finish 15th as Hulkenberg goes fourth.
Only sixth for Leclerc on the soft tyres and Sainz slots into seventh. Not a great outlook for Ferrari going into qualifying.
Perez moves up to third on the softs, 0.263s behind Hamilton.
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Verstappen says there's "no f****** grip". Not a bad lap in that respect, then.
Verstappen only second on his first soft tyre flying lap, 0.250s adrift.
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The Mercedes duo fire in laps on the soft rubber, with Hamilton going top on a 1m17.811s as Russell slots into fourth.
Hard to read into the true pecking order at the moment given the running plans forced by the new tyre allocation for the weekend. Track is also evolving.
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Norris now goes top with a 1m18.082s on medium tyres.
It's 20 years ago since Alonso scored his first grand prix victory in Hungary. For context, F3 sprint race winner from today Gabriele Mini was born in 2005.
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And it was a good lap for Alonso, who goes top with a 1m18.350s!
Alonso begins a second run on soft rubber and is a tenth down after the first sector.
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Verstappen is asking if "everything is ok with the rear, [it's] a bit weird". That comes a lap after he had a snap on the way into Turn 2.
Good lap from Albon on the softs, who goes sixth behind Perez.
With just under 35 minutes to go, everyone has now put in a time. Red Bull teams bookend the field, with Verstappen fastest and Ricciardo last, 6.3s the spread thus far.
Disappointing lap for Alonso on the soft tyre, who can only manage 10th in his Aston Martin.
Bottas now goes second on his soft tyre run.
Zhou puts in a good lap on the soft rubber to go second to split the Red Bulls.
Ocon instantly splits the two McLarens on soft rubber.
Norris moves to fourth on his soft tyre lap, 0.583s down on Verstappen.
Piastri jumps up to third on soft rubber, though 0.471s down despite going purple in sector two.
We still haven't had any laps from Bottas, Zhou, Piastri, Norris and Hulkenberg.
Not a great sign for Mercedes, with Russell almost a second down on the Red Bulls on the same tyre.
Russell completes a flying lap to go fifth. Verstappen still top with a 1m18.478s, set on medium rubber.
We're seeing really slow build-up laps so far, suggesting drivers are quite worried about how much rubber is dropping off over the course of a flying lap.
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Perez complains to his team that "the tyres are not cooling down". He's told that he'll just have to struggle through this today.
Sainz has a wild slide going through Turn 3, complaining that he's "struggling with wind".
Hard relate, Carlos...
Hard relate, Carlos...
Albon puts his soft-shod Williams fifth, 1.793s down.
We've got seven times on the board so far, Verstappen leading Perez, with Albon about to make that eight.
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Swap one Red Bull for the other, as Verstappen takes over with a 1m18.478s.
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Sergio Perez now goes top in the Red Bull with a 1m18.558s.
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But that is instantly bettered by Magnussen in the Haas with a 1m20.454.
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Ricciardo puts a 1m25.697s on the board.
Daniel Ricciardo is first out in his AlphaTauri on medium rubber as he continues to readjust to F1 life.
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