Celebrating Anniversaries on the Hungaroring

The winners of this weekend’s fortieth consecutive version of the Hungarian Grand Prix – within the seventy fifth season of Method 1 – will obtain their trophies from the 200-year-old Herend porcelain firm.

There’s loads of causes to have a good time this vital milestone for the Hungaroring, not least of which is the redeveloped monitor (works are estimated to have value virtually €200m) that may greet followers this weekend. Solely Autodromo Monza, house of the Italian Grand Prix, can boast an extended steady presence on the Method 1 calendar than the Hungaroring.

Immediately, the distinctive trophies for this yr’s race have been offered to the media on the prime of the fully rebuilt Hungaroring grandstand (beforehand often known as the Tremendous Gold grandstand) reverse the pits and beginning grid. As soon as once more, the trophies have been made by the world-famous Herend porcelain firm from Hungary, which celebrates it’s two hundredth anniversary this yr. 

As Herend CEO, Attila Simon, stated, “we don’t know who will stand on the rostrum on Sunday, however one factor is for sure; the trophies might be there, and hopefully the winners will convey them house in a single piece!” Infamously, Lando Norris unintentionally broken Max Verstappen’s trophy in the course of the podium ceremony on the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix, which supplied Herendy with a useful advertising alternative.

The 2025 trophies construct on the porcelain producer’s 200 years of custom, that includes tulips, dianthus (carnation) and pomegranate motifs on the vases for the highest three finishers and plate for the successful workforce. For the primary time this yr, a restricted collector’s version of 200 mini helmets might be bought by the corporate that includes the identical sample from the rostrum trophies.

Zsolt Gyulay, CEO of the Hungarian GP, was additionally available for the presentation of the trophies and to announce a number of company of honor for this yr’s race; ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, who was instrumental in bringing Method 1 behind the Iron Curtain for the primary time in 1986, and Thierry Boutsen, winner of the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix.