| Race Date: | 27-29 July 2012 |
| Circuit Name: | Hungaroring |
| Laps: | 70 |
| Circuit Length: | 4.381 km |
| Race Distance: | 306.67 km |
| Lap Record: | 1:19.071 - M Schumacher (2004) |
F1’s first foray behind what used to be known as the Iron Curtain came in 1986 at a purpose-built circuit near the village of Mogyoród, the Hungaroring, less than a 30-minute drive north-east of the wonderful twin cities of Buda and Pest – where you can still see bullet-holes on the walls going back to the failed anti-Communist uprising of 1956. In F1’s turbo-charged heyday Ayrton Senna put his Lotus Renault on pole but it was compatriot Nelson Piquet’s Williams Honda which won, as it did again in 1987.
