Red Bull’s RB6 “looks excellent” on the twisty curves of the Hungaroring, according to Christian Klien.
After the dark blue cars were a full second per lap clear of the field in the morning session, Sebastian Vettel maintained his lead in the afternoon but the gap was reduced by five tenths to Hockenheim winner Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari.

“It’s a track on which you need maximum downforce,” Austrian Klien, who attends races as one of HRT’s four contracted drivers, told German Sky television.

“The Red Bull has a lot of downforce and also very good traction, which are the things you need here,” he added.

Klien, 27, is seeking a return to the F1 grid, and is likely to get a race or two at the wheel of the Hispania car this season.

Beyond that, he is eyeing the best possible vacancy for 2011.

“The best place is certainly Renault’s, absolutely,” he said, “also Sauber. There will be some movement as well with the new teams, but there are not too many places.”

Russian pay-driver Vitaly Petrov is under pressure to keep his Renault seat alongside Robert Kubica, but he put in a noteworthy effort on Friday by outpacing his teammate for fifth fastest.

“If we see Vitaly doing well every race and if we do believe he is catching up quickly enough in terms of learning, he will be with us next year,” team boss Eric Boullier said in Hungary.

“We have a lot of drivers chasing us but we will see. I want to give Vitaly the support he needs to deliver, so we will wait as long as possible.

“If he doesn’t deliver now, then maybe we will make the decision earlier,” added Boullier.

With pleasant temperatures around 25 degrees, the Formula 1 drivers were once again on Friday afternoon 90 minutes of time to prepare for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Hungaroring proved in the 2nd Free practice as treacherous – the fans got many rides in addition to the asphalt and wild drifts seen.

In the end, as was the morning ahead Sebastian Vettel, who scored a best lap of 1:20.087 minutes. Team-mate Mark Webber finished 0.510 seconds with distance in third place. Between the two “cops” pushed Fernando Alonso, who in his Ferrari was 0.497 seconds behind. Team-mate Felipe Massa was fifth (+0.899 seconds).

Stark presented itself Vitaly Petrov, who managed in his Renault to the fifth position (+1.108). Team-mate Robert Kubica placed with 1.288 seconds gap on the seventh. Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren-Mercedes pushed in between (+1.221). Jenson Button finished in the second chrome arrow in ninth place (+1.643).

Nico Hulkenberg Williams was eighth (+1.536). Michael Schumacher was found with 1.686 seconds behind the tenth place team mate Nico Rosberg in 13th (+1.952). Pedro de la Rosa presented himself in eleventh Sauber as a strong (+1.722).

Adrian Sutil Force India was in the 16th (+2.515) Before Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso in (+2.515). Timo Glock finished 5.289 seconds with distance with his Virgin Rank 20th

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Adrian Sutil has admitted that switching to the Renault team would be an “interesting” move for 2011.

The 27-year-old German said in Hungary on Friday that his future remains “open”, despite having “an option” to stay with Force India next year.

Rumours have linked him with Renault, who are contemplating replacing Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov for 2011.

“That would be interested, of course,” Sutil is quoted by DPA news agency.

“That (Renault) is someone you must definitely listen to if they have interest in you,” he added.

Sutil said Renault is still a top team even though the ownership and team management have recently changed.

On the other hand, he is concerned that Force India’s potential will be exhausted if the sport enters a period of stability.

“If the rules remain the same, then you improve only with details,” said Sutil. “Then we can no longer keep up because of the expense.

“If there is a better option, where you can come forwards or go with a factory team, you have to use it,” he continued.

Team boss Christian Horner confirmed the news to Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport.

“The reason is simple,” he said. “The wing without the F-duct is more efficient (in Hungary).”

The report also said Ferrari is not convinced the F-duct is the best solution for the tight and twisty layout, experimenting with one car not running the downforce-stalling device in morning practice.

Williams’ Rubens Barrichello was surprised when he learned that some teams are not convinced about the F-duct at the Hungaroring.

“For sure we are starting with the F-duct. After that, we’ll see,” he said.

Another talking point in Hungary is the flexible front wings photographed on the Red Bull and Ferrari cars last weekend at Hockenheim.

“I am not saying they are doing something illegal,” McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh is quoted as saying.

“But the fact is that the endplates are touching the ground,” he said, apparently after seeing the slow-motion video captured by FOM of the Red Bull cars in morning practice.

“On the Red Bull, these end plates are even protected with a shield. We can’t imagine how it’s getting that low,” added Whitmarsh.

Kimi Raikkonen has once again refused to shed any light on his plans for 2011.

It is expected that the 2007 world champion intends to stay at least another year in the world rally championship.

But Citroen recently announced that Sebastien Loeb and Sebastien Ogier are staying put, without mentioning the future of Finn Raikkonen, who has also been linked with a return to formula one.

When asked on Thursday ahead of the Finnish rally if there is any news about his plans, the 30-year-old answered: “No, not yet. We have some decisions to make and I haven’t done that yet.

“I can honestly say that I do not know,” he added in a separate interview.

FIA president Jean Todt told Turun Sanomat newspaper that he respects Raikkonen’s decision last year to move to rallying.

“When he wanted a new challenge, it was very courageous to pick rally. But F1 is a constant pressure so I can understand why Kimi wanted to do something else,” said the Frenchman.

“What I can say is that if the reigning champion Jenson Button, or whoever wins this year’s title should go to rallying, he would not be at the same level of Kimi in their first season,” added Todt.

Both Raikkonen and Todt refused to comment on the Ferrari team orders scandal.

“I’m not in formula one, so I don’t care what’s happening there,” said the Finn.

And Todt added: “We will deal with it in due course, but I don’t want to talk about F1 now.”

Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has admitted he would like to see formula one overturn its ban on team orders.

Germany’s Bild newspaper said the Italian answered with a clear ‘yes’, adding: “F1 is a team sport.”

Currently, article 39.1 of the sporting regulations explicitly prohibits team orders, but the subject is now the topic of hot debate, given Felipe Massa’s reluctant move to let Fernando Alonso win the recent German grand prix.

Peter Sauber agrees with Domenicali: “Team orders should be allowed, because in formula one, ultimately the interests of the team are at the fore.”

Mercedes’ Ross Brawn added: “We understand that the fans are unhappy. But the teams need to work together with the FIA for a solution that takes into account the competition as well as the interests of the team.

Christian Horner’s stance against team orders is well known, and Toro Rosso’s Franz Tost agrees: “To have a fair sport, team orders must be prohibited.”

HRT’s Colin Kolles adds: “Team orders must stay banned. Otherwise the sport aspect is damaged.”

Interestingly, McLaren declined to answer Bild’s team orders survey.

The bosses and drivers of the British team have been fervently referring to the philosophy of fairness and ethics within McLaren, but others recalled Hockenheim 2008, when Heikki Kovalainen moved over for Lewis Hamilton in much the same way as Massa did for Alonso.

Kovalainen, now driving for Lotus, did not want to talk about that incident in Hungary.

“I don’t remember that,” said the Finn. “For me, there’s no point in going into the past, actually. I’m just here to race with Lotus and that’s all I can say.”

Like McLaren, bosses for Lotus, Williams, Force India, Renault and Virgin also declined to answer Bild’s survey.

F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone insisted he is happy with the publicity being generated by the saga.

“Everyone is talking about formula one — what more could you want?” the 79-year-old told Blick newspaper.

Red Bull’s dominance seemed apparent on Friday, as the controversy about flexible front wings looked set to continue.

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were a second clear of the next best runner, Robert Kubica’s Renault, in the morning practice session in Hungary.

Slow-motion replays captured by the sport’s broadcaster Formula One Management highlighted the extent to which the extremities of the RB6′s front wing bend towards the track.

The highest-placed Ferrari was Hockenheim winner Fernando Alonso, 1.8 seconds off the pace, amid suggestions the team has decided not to run its flexible wing at the Hungaroring.

“We will see what we will end up using,” said chief engineer Chris Dyer.

Red Bull’s Christian Horner told the BBC: “I’m sure the Ferraris will be quick around here — but I’m also sure the circuit will suit our car, and our drivers like driving here.”

According to the official weather forecaster, there is a chance of rain for the afternoon practice session.

Discussions on the team orders at Ferrari, Fernando Alonso leave you cold – the Spaniard is focused solely on his car

Fernando Alonso has been addressed in the run up to the Grand Prix of Hungary, of course, the team orders at Hockenheim. The global debate on the approach of cold Ferrari let the Spaniard. His focus remains on winning the World Cup. In Hungary, a further step in this direction succeed.

“Of course it does not affect me. Not at all,” Alonso replied Hungary, as he is addressed to the discussions in the week after Hockenheim. “There are a Grand Prix to talk always something, not only in Germany. In every race there is an anecdote. One is the Red-Bull-collision in Turkey, at other times I’ve Massa overhauled at the pit entrance. We which can not devote too much attention. ”

“If we lose only one percent of our focus, we have lost,” the Spaniard continued. “There are many opinions and it was in the past few days a lot of talk. For us it is only important that the car is competitive and we deliver that in Hungary a good job. Everyone has their opinion, the drivers and team bosses, but it is their opinion, we can respect. We wish to concentrate on our work. ”

About the team tactics in Hockenheim Alonso can elicit any details. “I do not think that there is a number one or number two in the drivers there. I think driving is more about respect each other and to the respect for Ferrari may be. It means a lot,” says the double world champion team-mate Felipe Massa, it’s clear who said in Hungary that he was not number two.

Many fans at Hockenheim and in front of TV sets felt cheated after the race. “Of course, some fans are unhappy about some race, not only in Germany. There were other races. Some fans will also be quite regardless,” estimates Alonso. “I arrived today in Hungary. The airport and the hotel were filled with people. All have cheered for us. Maybe I see some other fans, but so far these were the only ones.”

Therefore, the Hockenheim winner is also certain that his reputation has not suffered from the incidents. “I do not think anything has changed for me, or something will happen to me. I am the same and would always fight for the best things for the team and for the sport. I hope I do it in my career, always good .

Yet it is not clear when the motor sport World Council deals with the Hockenheim-events. Alonso cares not: “We’ll see. Need Now the pilots to concentrate on driving. It is a very interesting race. We have to deliver in Hungary good opportunities in a strong performance. It’s not in our hands what the World Council in future will decide. ”

After Alonso has referred to this subject, he comes finally to evaluate the strong performance of the car. “We can be pleased with the competitiveness of the F10 in the last race. At last we have in Germany celebrated a double victory. There were no problems and we collected many points.”

“But at Silverstone and Valencia, the car was good. We want to implement this momentum in Hungary. All these discussions are in the past and there is nothing to add. We have already said everything in Germany.”

Mercedes has pressed rewind on some of the technical improvements that debuted on the W01 car last weekend at Hockenheim.

After Nico Rosberg finished on the Silverstone podium, the Brackley based team brought further tweaks mainly to the blown diffuser and F-duct to Hockenheim.

But the 24-year-old German, and his famous teammate Michael Schumacher, were off the pace at their home race.

“We have taken a step back,” Schumacher is quoted on Thursday by Auto Motor und Sport.

The 2010 car will therefore run in Hungary in effectively the Silverstone specification, while the problems with the latest improvements are investigated.

“We will compete again with the full package at Spa,” said the seven time world champion.

Rosberg admitted to some frustration.

“Every time we have a major update, something goes wrong,” he said in Hungary.

“In Valencia it didn’t work out, until we got it right at Silverstone,” added Rosberg, who said some of the problems with the Hockenheim specification have been solved for Hungary.

“Hopefully for Spa the problem will be fixed completely,” he added.

Pedro de la Rosa on Thursday urged formula one to “turn the page” after the team orders scandal.

Cameramen and media hounded both Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in the Hungaroring paddock, mere days after they swapped positions for victory in Germany.

With a World Motor Sport Council inquiry now pending, the saga is still F1′s hottest topic, but de la Rosa – who drives for Ferrari-powered Sauber and is a Spaniard like Alonso – described it as “nonsense”.

“We must turn the page and not discuss this nonsense anymore,” he is quoted by EFE news agency.

De la Rosa, however, did not shy away from declaring that he thinks team orders have a place in formula one.

“We need to legalise it, because you cannot lie to the spectators; team orders have always existed and will always exist because this is a team sport,” he said.

He said he would agree to move over for his teammate, Kamui Kobayashi, if the order “makes sense for the good of the team”.

“I understand very well and I think the whole world does as well that this is a team sport. In the first race it would be absurd, but after the halfway point of the championship, team orders seem logical to me,” insisted de la Rosa, 39.

But, after speaking with Rubens Barrichello this week, it is not clear if Massa is prepared to move over for a second time.

Asked on Thursday what he would do if he is leading and Alonso is second on Sunday, the Brazilian said: “I will win.”

Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher have called the team orders at Ferrari scandal as a great loss to F1. “What happened at Hockenheim does not look good for us all and for the whole sport,” said runner-up Vettel on Thursday in Budapest. “That’s something, is not a surprise, because it has given in recent years, again and again. But the way it happened was unusual.”

Record champion Michael Schumacher agreed with him. “I have to give Sebastian law,” said the seven-time world champion, but did not give his former team Ferrari, but the ban on team orders to blame. “The way how things are implemented because of the rule harms us all.”
Therefore, Schumacher, whose racing team from Induced overtook Rubens Barrichello in 2002 was the introduction of the ban lead to calls for its abolition. “At the end of the day you need to find a way to allow the team orders, because you can stop it anyway not”, said the Mercedes driver. “You have to find a solution that will satisfy all sides.”

Schumacher even had concrete plans of how to implement it wanted, but this does not explain in more detail. “I have an idea, and I will also discuss with certain people,” he said. “But there’s no point now where ideas are trumpeted in 1000 the public.”

Rubens Barrichello feels with his friend and countryman Felipe Massa set the tiresome topic stable government finally over
The Sorrows of Felipe Massa Rubens Barrichello can understand very well. The Williams driver had in his Ferrari-times do often enough behind team leader Michael Schumacher. The same experiences his Landsann now in the shadow of the superstar Fernando Alonso. “That such things happen, is the reason why I have often changed the team,” said Barrichello, who was sick role as number two.

Under the real joy of the journalists present, the Brazilian said on Thursday at the press conference: “If I were a ‘Bad Guy’ has to be to be world champion, then I’d rather the world title. Such a world champion I do not want to be. Permit me has brought up my father, so I raise my boys. So I’m happy. ”
“The drivers have to each other go, all, this is the sense of racing. And if I end up with a point for the world title is missing, then so be it,” Barrichello said after the Ferrari team orders last Sunday in Hockenheim. “I’m very sorry for him. Felipe is a friend and I would have liked him that he must not do this experience. He feels the same now as I have felt many times.”

While the views of many team leaders and partly also the drivers for the abolition of the prohibition order-stable, Barrichello has a different view. “We must do something to make the stop. Otherwise it will end at some point in a great drama. It is in the hands of the top people to change that. You should clean may go against each other. What did you do it when you win the World Cup only because someone gave you points? “

Felipe Massa on Thursday insisted he is not Ferrari’s number two driver, confirming he is aiming for victory this weekend in Hungary.
Since Hockenheim, where the Brazilian obeyed a team order to let teammate Fernando Alonso win, Brazilian cartoonists have depicted Massa as a puppet.

“People will see him now as a ‘yes man’ who bends to the will of the company,” David Coulthard wrote in his latest Telegraph column.

“And maybe they are right. Team player or stooge? The line is thin.”

Mercedes’ Norbert Haug said at a pre-race press conference in Hungary that the application of a driver hierarchy can affect motivation.

“If you say ‘you are number two’ … it’s a complex issue,” said the German.

“If the drivers are not fully motivated you will not achieve anything. That needs to be kept in mind,” added Haug.

Massa told reporters at the Hungaroring that he is aiming to win this weekend’s race, where last year he suffered life-threatening injuries in a qualifying crash.

“The time I have to I say I am the number two driver, I will not race anymore,” he pledged.

Earlier, he arrived at the Budapest venue with Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali.

Michael Schumacher on Thursday proved that his on-track struggles this season have not dented his sense of humour.
At a team press conference in Hungary, the seven time world champion tried to answer a questioner but found that his microphone was not working.

Boss Norbert Haug leaned over and pressed a button, moving Schumacher to laugh: “If Norbert touches it, it works.

“Maybe he should touch my car, and it will work too!” added the 41-year-old.

Schumacher reinforced that he is staying calm in order to work on the technical deficiencies, in order to mount a championship challenge in 2011.

But in Hungary, organisers of the 25th formula one race in Budapest are not unhappy with Schumacher.

According to SID news agency, ticket sales are 10 per cent higher than in 2009, and “we have Michael Schumacher to thank for that,” confirmed Hungaroring vice president Tamas Frank.

A grandstand at the track is even named after the famous German.

“A great idea,” laughed the chirpy Schumacher.

Not even at the press conference the technology currently makes what Michael Schumacher will. On the podium before the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend in Budapest, the world champion several times unsuccessfully pressed the button labeled, to be heard. But only as a Mercedes sports chief Norbert Haug intervened game was Schumacher’s lead free.

“If Norbert touches, works for you too,” Schumacher said, adding with a grin: “Maybe he should touch it my car, it would also work again.” His humor is not the seven-time world champion has lost also. In the 41-year-old experienced so far the most frustrating phase of his already so disappointing first year after the sensational comeback.
Of all the home race at Hockenheim on Sunday he had been lapped. Actually, a humiliation, especially since the Kerpener then even the “best result” spoke. The young team-mate Nico Rosberg drives more successful than he. And the race in Budapest for Schumacher can not be more than one test run under competition conditions.

“In that situation there is only one directive: to work more hard,” says Schumacher and assured: “We did not get nervous. We just have to attempt to understand the car better. We must remain calm, view all the details exactly and everything closely . Analyze Why Schumacher, at least outwardly so calm remains is obvious. This season he has accepted as a learning year. The title of 2010 he had checked weeks ago, but the 2011 quite briskly re-issued as a target.
Results, times and points this season are now secondary. That Schumacher forages possessed as of old values and data. Even now he is working on the project “World Cup title in 2011,” it comes to knowledge for the construction of the new car. A strategy to his team chief Ross Brawn as early as 2009, the year before to the end at the World Cup crown struggling competitors by surprise.

For the Formula 1 scene Schumacher is either way a gain. The TV ratings rise, ‘RTL recorded’ on average over a million viewers more than last year. And the ticket to many places. In Budapest, currently at almost ten percent compared to 2009. “We have to thank to Michael Schumacher,” said Vice President Tamas Frank Hungaroring.

The audience favorite in honor they even have an audience rank in “Michael Schumacher stands renamed. “A great idea,” says Schumacher. He has visited “his” stand still, “but I will pass this weekend so more times.”