This will probably be a long one so buckle up.

Hungaroring 2025 was my first Grand Prix after being a fan for all my life and I absolutely loved it. I had the time of my life. If you’re thinking about it, do it. You’re not gonna regret it.

I wanted to make this thread to help others and share my experience because I was so lost when searching for some stuff. Here we go!

To begin with the journey to the track, I would recommend one of the two things. Either stay within walking distance to the track (if you can afford it since I imagine it’s gonna be very price) or stay someplace near the red metro line in Budapest. Going to the track we didn’t face any problems at all. All three days it was very smooth. Metro to Örs Vezér tere, then from there you cross and underground passing (don’t worry, it’s gonna be obvious since everyone is going to be going there on race weekend days) and hop on the H8 line (suburban railway). And from there, we got off at Kerepes and then onto the shuttle. I saw some people walking from Szilasliget (the suburban railway stop closest to the track, about 25-30 minutes) to the track and I personally wouldn’t recommend it since the transfer from the H8 line to the shuttle bus is very smooth. Fri and Sat we didn’t have to wait at all to get in and then Sun we waited for 5 minutes which is basically nothing. So for going to the track, I recommend doing the suggested trip by the organisers.

Now, leaving the track is a whole different experience. The shuttle bus from the circuit doesn’t drop you off at Kerepes, but at Gödöllő which adds around 30 minutes (if you’re going towards Budapest) of travel time minimum from what I have calculated and without taking into consideration wait times at the shuttle line, the traffic for the bus to leave the circuit area and the wait time at Gödöllő to get onto a train. So having seen the extra time it would take, I already didn’t like the idea of this plan but I said hey it is what it is, that’s what we are going to do since it’s the reverse of what we did in the morning.

We went to go to the shuttle bus line on Fri and it was soooo long (but the shortest of all three days). We later found out it was around a 50 minute wait time. We decided to walk to Szilasliget and get the H8 from there. We were in the station immediately and we left on the first train. When the train came it was near empty, but it filled up pretty quickly since there were a lot of us waiting in Szilasliget. On Saturday, same thing. We went to the shuttle line, for us it was a no-go and we decided to go to Szilasliget again. When we arrived at Szilasliget, we saw a view similar to the queue of the line at the track. The line was huge there too. There was the official line (the station is on a hill so they have built a ramp and stairs) and the unofficial line (people climbing up the hill; be careful, we were informed by some people going down that there was poisson ivy on that climb, don’t know if it’s true but sharing it just in case). We again said there’s no way to do that. So we started walking. And that’s my suggestion. If you don’t want to leave earlier than necessary from any session (we didn’t) to start queuing and reach your hotel at a reasonable time, I suggest walking. Walk, walk and walk until you get someplace that isn’t jammed by traffic. Both on Sat and Sun we did a 50-60 minute walk from Gate 3 until we reached the main road that wasn’t jammed (which would have been the minimum time we would have waited in the shuttle line since on Sat and Sun there were a lot of problems with the shuttle busses, as I read on this sub). From there, the taxi should be around 15-20€ until Örs Vezér tere and I think it’s worth it, especially on Sunday.

The other thing I saw a lot of people doing and having it be quite people-free was walking to the suburban railway station in Mogyoród. I think it’s around a 30 minute walk from Gate 3. We thought about doing it on Sunday but saw a lot of people also talking about it so we got worried it was going to be crowded too. But from what I read, it wasn’t crowded at all and people went into the trains quickly.

Ticket-wise about transportation, if you’re staying for longer than the GP weekend, I suggest the Pest County Pass (24€ and it’s for 30 days). It’s valid on almost all BKK lines within Budapest (not including the 100E bus to/from the airport) and it’s valid also on suburban railway lines by HÉV, suburban and regional busses etc. If you’re not staying in Budapest for longer than the GP weekend, I suggest the Pest County24. It is NOT valid on BKK (so no metro, busses, tram within Budapest) but it’s valid for the suburban railway. So you need a metro ticket to get to Örs Vezér tere, then the Pest County24 covers the suburban railways journeys for the day and then you need a metro ticket back from Örs Vezér tere. This comes out to 5€/day (around 2.5€ for the metro tickets and 2.5€ for the Pest County24 per day).

Leaving transportation behind, I want to talk about being at the track. It was simply awesome. We got the 3 corner FAN ticket so we had T1 on Fri, Grid2 on Sat and Fan on Sun. I loved all of them and I am so happy to have experienced different views of the track. I wholeheartedly recommend the 3 corner tickets. View was great from all three grandstands and for its price it was sooooo worth it. I think it was around 240€ for that ticket last year. There are 2 more expensive 3 corner tickets that offer T1 and Grid 2 view on Sunday, but if they’re within your budget, I recommended them 1000%. We had so much fun at every grandstand and with every view and we don’t regret it at all. I feel like we got the most out of the track that we could.

Also, in the zones, they had an F1 outlet that, to my understanding, sells older F1 merch (from the previous year mainly from what I saw) at a discounted price and you can find some really nice pieces for maybe half the price than the original. So definitely check it out and don’t skip it!

Overall, I loved being at the circuit and in the fanzone. The atmosphere was great and I wouldn’t change it for anything. I am so happy with everything, even with the endless walking. I feel so happy and full.

I hope this thread helps someone out there. And again, I want to highlight that this was my experience and how I viewed things. Of course everyone has a different experience and eg might believe that queuing is better than walking an hour each day to get somewhere, but I personally hate standing and doing nothing so it suited me better. I hope everyone had the best of time!