Thursday, July 23, 2009

Live - Hungary Grand Prix practice

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By Caroline Cheese

0847: So it's a big F1 welcome to Jaime Alguersuari this weekend, the 19-year-old with an obscene amount of vowels in his name. He steps into Sebastien Bourdais's seat at Toro Rosso. I say welcome, but there are already murmurings of discontent from the other drivers. The Spaniard has done two straight-line tests in an F1 car - meaning not only will today be the first time he drives an F1 circuit, it will be the first time he goes round a corner in an F1 car. Lewis Hamilton says he "wouldn't have been ready" while Jenson Button added: "At his age it could absolutely destroy his career. It could end his dream of being competitive in Formula 1."

BBC Sport's Sarah Holt on Twitter: "Just arriving at the track courtesy of an access road for big wigs and media. It's called Bernie Avenue."

The sun is out
0839: The all-important weather update from the Hungaroring is that it's warm, about 33C, but will be getting cooler through the weekend. When I say cooler, I mean 26C on Sunday, which sounds positively roasting to me. No sign of any rain.

0830: Good morning. Such is my obsession with F1 these days that last night I dreamt BBC Sport's Sarah Holt gave me an Adrian Sutil cake. It's got me thinking: there's a gap in the cake market there, isn't there?


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