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Hungarian Grand Prix - Quotes of the weekend

Question to the drivers regarding the 21 race calendar next year, so it looks like it’s ever increasing. How difficult is it to adapt to your already busy schedules and do you think there is actually some kind of limit of number of races per year which is feasible for you as Formula One drivers?

Grosjean: “I think the limit would be the divorce!”

Father-of-two Romain Grosjean believes the ever-expanding calendar will reach an obvious breaking point for him

Engineer: “Ericsson. In theory he should let you through.”

Kvyat: “Yeah, but he’s not a very nice guy.”

Daniil Kvyat was unhappy with being held up during Friday practice…

“There must be a reason why the visa was denied. I don’t know the background. To be honest, I don’t care about this. So we go there, we race there and that’s it. It’s your problem how you get the visa.”

Franz Tost shows complete ignorance of the situation in Azerbaijan when questioned about freedom of the press ahead of next year’s race in Baku

“It would make our press conferences a lot shorter anyway, so maybe not a bad thing!”

Christian Horner has a different take on why it would be positive if journalists can’t get a visa for Azerbaijan

“Shit, I don’t know what happened. I think 2010 I was very close to win and did a stupid mistake and then we had this very ugly – I’m not saying the brand – dog with four legs, or five legs, or six, I don’t even know – then they went back to the porcelain one, now they’ve gone back to something else! Obviously it’s great to win but not entirely perfect.”

Sebastian Vettel’s day is tarnished by not getting the traditional porcelain trophy for winning the Hungarian Grand Prix - his first victory in Budapest

DK: “Well, yeah, it’s been a story for a while I guess. It’s only five letters but so challenging to say.”

SV: “How do you actually say it?”

DK: “I already forgot how to say it right to be honest myself!”

Vettel doesn’t get much help from Kvyat when trying to learn how to pronounce the Russian’s surname

“I think in English they call it a crappy day in the office!”

At least Toto Wolff has a sense of humour about Mercedes’ poor race after finishing sixth and eighth

“I think I’ve had some problems and bad races and this is just one more.”

A typically understated response from Kimi Raikkonen after dropping out of second place due to reliability issues

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.