Lando Norris has won the Hungarian Grand Prix, taking clinical advantage of a beneficial strategy to overcome McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri on Sunday.
Norris was focused from the start to deliver the win under intense pressure with a margin of just 0.6sec, having lost to Piastri in Belgium last weekend.
Norris, for whom it had looked bleak when he was tentative while well-positioned at the opening bend on Piastri’s inside. He went straight down from third on the grid into fifth place. He passed Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, and then strategy did most of the rest for him.
Piastri was brave and gave a good fight, as he clawed his way into the heart of the contest, having been 12 seconds back when he came out from his second stop.
Lando Norris kept his calm and held off Piastri, who locked up his front right on the penultimate lap in a final attempt to wrest victory. It was dramatic at the close, a slow-burner belatedly catching light.
Norris’s victory, his fifth of the season, took him to within nine points of championship leader Piastri, who finished runner-up, with George Russell third for Mercedes.
