The Hungaroring celebrated the completion of the largest renovation in its history with a community event for four thousand people called “Tiéd a Ring!” (The Ring Is Yours!) – with this event, the Formula 1 circuit reopened its gates to testers, racers, corporate events, conferences and the general public.
Visitors to the F1 circuit in Mogyoród could walk or run on the track, take part in a Pilates class on the roof terrace, get to know the brand-new main building and main grandstand on guided tours, have a coffee on the start-finish straight and explore the Hungaroring’s woodland. From the youngest to adults, visitors could get a taste of the basics of road safety, and in the final corners of the track they could get a glimpse of rapid intervention training – in other words, the exciting work of the marshals.
In recent years the Hungaroring has been renewed inside and out. The second phase of the strategic development programme, which began with utility upgrades in 2023, has now been completed; it included the renewal of the main entrance and the construction of the operations centre (2024), the widening of the paddock and the creation of the event area behind the main grandstand (2025), as well as the rebuilding of the main building and the main grandstand.
Work, which had been temporarily suspended, resumed after the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix. At the last race the main building only looked finished from the outside: the F1 contract stipulated that the race had to be held every year even during the renovation, and in such a way that the circuit did not look like a building site. However, part of the main building that appeared complete from the outside – which houses race control, the media centre and the enlarged VIP area, among other things – was not yet finished: only the walls were standing.
By now, however, the contractor consortium has completed the work and “handed back” the facility, which is thus ready to host world-class events – whether a world championship race, a Formula 1 test, a national championship race, a driving experience, an open day, or even a conference, a family day or a corporate event. The Hungaroring can continue to operate as a multifunctional event centre open 365 days a year.
“The renewal of the circuit is not merely an aesthetic or technical step forward; it clearly lifts the Hungaroring into the world’s top tier in terms of infrastructure as well,” said Zsolt Gyulay, chairman and CEO of Hungaroring Sport Zrt. “The completely renewed main building and main grandstand represent a quality worthy of the greatest international circuits. We are especially pleased that we could open this new chapter with a large-scale community event, as the Hungaroring has always been more than a race track: it is a meeting point, an experience centre and a community space.”
The new main building houses 36 race garages and 4 technical garages, a restaurant, a VIP area and a press centre, and the new race control centre has also been completed. The new 13,000-square-metre main grandstand has commentary booths as well as a VIP terrace. The new main grandstand is covered and has a capacity of 10,000 people. The event area has been enlarged and is supported on the forest side by a new retaining wall system.
The new main building and the new main grandstand are connected by a tunnel at each end of the start-finish straight, to handle the movement of organisers, competitors and visitors between the two areas.
Sunday tickets for this year’s Formula 1 race weekend in Hungary have sold out, but tickets for Friday and Saturday of the Hungarian Grand Prix, held between 24 and 26 July, are still available.
Source: MTI
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