HungarianGrand Prix

The Best of the Best in Budapest

In 39 years of hosting Formula One, the Hungarian Grand Prix has seen an impressive list of winners. Indeed, every multiple-time victor of the event has been crowned world champion.

Lewis Hamilton holds the record for most wins by a driver with eight – five of which came with the three-pointed star, including his first with the team in 2013.

Michael Schumacher has four, Ayrton Senna has three, while Nelson Piquet, Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve, Mika Hakkinen, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, and Max Verstappen all have two.

Continuing the world champion theme, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, and Nigel Mansell have also all triumphed at the track.

Alonso (2003) joins Hill (1993), Button (2006), Heikki Kovalainen (2008), Esteban Ocon (2021), and Oscar Piastri (2024) as maiden F1 Grand Prix winners in Budapest.

Two drivers – Mansell in 1992 and Schumacher in 2001 – were able to clinch the World Championship in Budapest, when F1 seasons were shorter and Hungary came closer to the conclusion of the calendar.

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Mercedes too has an impressive history at the Hungaroring.

Together with McLaren, the Silver Arrows have achieved the most pole positions at the track with nine, and in 2023 Lewis set the record for most poles at a single Grand Prix and track when he took P1 in the W14.

All of Mercedes’ five Hungarian Grand Prix wins have come courtesy of Lewis, and the seven-time world champion has claimed nine of our marque’s 13 Grand Prix podiums at the circuit.

Going into 2025, every driver to have so far raced for Mercedes in the hybrid era at Hungary has finished on the podium (Nico in 2016, Valtteri in 2017 and 2020, and George in 2022).

No engine supplier has more wins in Hungary than Mercedes-Benz, who have triumphed 14 times at the track, dating back to Hakkinen in 1999.

MB Power’s record of 16 pole positions and 30 podiums in Budapest is also unmatched.

In 2024, a 1-2-3 podium lockout saw MB Power claim its 600^th F1 podium.

Both George and Kimi have recorded some notable milestones in Hungary, too.

In 2022 George secured his maiden F1 pole position when he qualified P1 in the W13. A year prior he had claimed his long-awaited first F1 points finish at the Grand Prix.

Kimi’s first Formula 2 Feature Race win came at the Hungaroring in 2024. At the time, it made him the youngest multiple race winner in series history, having also triumphed in the Silverstone Sprint Race a few weeks earlier.

Valtteri also tasted junior formula success in Budapest, winning the GP3 Feature Race at the track in 2011.

In 2019, Test and Reserve Driver Fred claimed all three wins at the track on his way to claiming the FRECA crown that season.