racing, as two of the best races of the season saw Bruni take Saturday's feature and Glock Sunday's sprint, the latter after a last-lap pass on Jose Maria Lopez to steal a fantastic win on home soil.
The heat that enveloped the Hockenheim track also made it one of the toughest weekends to date for the drivers and teams of the GP2 series. All were looking towards this weekend’s racing in Hungary with a fair amount of trepidation, as weather reports put Budapest in the low 40s. The city has experienced large thunderstorms over the past 48 hours however and temperatures have dropped off significantly.
The Hungaroring used to be a track on which people considered overtaking to be impossible, but last year's GP2 field put on two enthralling events, with Neel Jani holding off
Heikki Kovalainen to take victory in race one, while Premat led
Nico Rosberg home for an ART Grand Prix 1-2 in race 2, despite both drivers having had to start from the back of the grid on Saturday following exclusion from qualifying due to an error in the positioning of their steering rack.
Premat will again be at a disadvantage this weekend as he arrives in Budapest with the knowledge that he faces a ten-place grid penalty for his part in the race-ending
incident between himself and Hiroki Yoshimoto last Sunday. As a result, team-mate Hamilton will arrive in high spirits, having already seen his championship advantage increase last as Piquet Jr failed to pick up a single point in Germany.
Premat, meanwhile, will be looking over his shoulder as Glock continues to make sizeable inroads into the Frenchman's third place tally, while the battle for fifth in the table should continue to rage between Ernesto Viso and Bruni, who swapped places twice last weekend, with Arden twins Nicolas Lapierre and Michael Ammermuller taking a watching brief and hoping to kick-start their seasons in Hungary. Lapierre's return gathered momentum in Germany, concluding with the Frenchman narrowly missing points on Sunday.
