Formula 1 Grand Prix-view: Hungary

Welcome to Hungary; you’re just in time for this year’s Formula 1 Pirelli Hungarian Grand Prix! This event is held close to the heart within the Timko household, seeing that we are a Hungarian-American family. However, the celebratory mood for this weekend’s Grand Prix does not end there. The setting for the event, the Hungaroring, is much-lauded for being overly satisfying from a driver’s perspective. In fact, Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo has recently compared driving the venue to racing ‘like Monaco without the walls.’ The tight and twisty 14-cornered circuit nestled in the hills surrounding the Hungarian capitol of Budapest, has hosted the Hungarian Grand Prix in each of the previous 28 Formula 1 campaigns. And in speaking for the 9.88 million Magyars of Hungary and for Hungarian ex-pats wherever you may be, it’s time to go racing!

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