Last year’s rain affected weekend went down in history as the first time that a driver scored maximum available points, as
Nelson Piquet Jr's record-breaking weekend set him up for a nail-biting run in to the end of the championship with eventual champion
Lewis Hamilton. Glock, meanwhile, was getting firmly into his stride at iSport, racking up more points as he enjoyed a second half of the season.
By contrast, the weather in Budapest is set to be sweltering this weekend, with a heatwave sweeping the country and pushing temperatures as high as 40 degrees in recent days. That said, there is still the ever-looming possibility of thunderstorms and, as the series discovered last year, Hungaroring in the wet can be a pretty exciting place to be racing.
Racewinners Giorgio Pantano, Pastor Maldonado, Bruno Senna and Andi Zuber all feature in a tightly-packed top ten, but the man to watch in that group may well be fifth-placed
Kazuki Nakajima, who has shown a definite improvement in consistency in recent races, now matching pace with performance as he added to his podium tally at
Silverstone and the Nurburgring. Indeed the German venue proved to be fruitful for the Japanese contingent, with Kohei Hirate also reaching the top three in the sprint, like Nakajima benefiting from his time in the F3 Euroseries.
Outside the top ten, Adam Carroll will be determined to regain winning ways after the Nurburgring proved to be a let-down following his Silverstone exploits, while series veteran Nicolas Lapierre - with whom the Briton shares eleventh place - will also want to return to front-running form after recent disappointments.
