During his Young Driver Test, Lando Norris took some time out to explain the ins and outs of car setup at the Hungarian track. Hear from the man himself:

People tend to think of the Hungaroring as being a bit like Monaco – slow, with few long straights and plenty of corners. While that’s true, the circuit actually has quite a lot of medium and high-speed corners.

You still need to run quite a high-downforce set-up around here, and that also means you need to run with more rake in the car, raising the floor at the rear a little higher to make the car run more efficiently.

The track surface is extremely smooth, which means you can go quite stiff on your set-up. You want to run quite stiffly anyway, because that’s the most efficient way to tackle the medium- and high-speed corners. And that really helps to keep the car in the balance sweet-spot for all those high-speed corners around the back of the circuit.

The Hungaroring has a lot of braking zones with lateral load; at Turn Three and the last two corners, you’re still on the brakes when you start to turn the steering wheel. For those corners, you need to run with more rearward brake bias so that you don’t lock up the front wheels on entry.

But you need to keep moving the brake bias around: at Turns One and 12 [a medium-speed right-hander], for example, you’d turn the brake bias forwards. You brake in a straight line for both those corners, so a forward-brake bias is definitely the most efficient set-up for those parts of the track.

Turn 12 is also very bumpy on corner entry; you need to watch out through here because those bumps can cause the front brakes to lock if you’re not careful on the pedal.

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