Norris wins Hungary F1 GP in McLaren one-two

United Kingdom’s Lando Norris holds disconnected McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri of Australia to triumph Hungarian Grand Prix.

Lando Norris has held disconnected McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to triumph the Hungarian Grand Prix connected a one-stop strategy and slash the Australian’s Formula One pb to 9 points going into the August break.

Norris completed 39 of the 70 laps connected Sunday astatine the Hungaroring connected a azygous acceptable of hard tyres portion Piastri stopped doubly and closed a 12-second spread to conscionable 0.6 astatine the decorativeness with a nail-biting pursuit to the chequered emblem and a near-collision.

George Russell took a distant third, 20 seconds down the road, for Mercedes and his 5th podium of the season.

“I’m dead. I’m dead. It was tough,” gasped Norris, who started successful 3rd spot – with Piastri 2nd – and past went down to 5th aft being squeezed astatine the start.

“We weren’t truly readying connected the 1 stop, but aft the archetypal lap, it was benignant of our lone enactment to get backmost into things.

“I didn’t deliberation it would get america the win. I thought it would get america possibly into second.”

Race victor Lando Norris of Great Britain driving the #4 McLaren MCL39 Mercedes takes the chequered emblem during the Grand Prix successful Hungary [Clive Rose/Getty Images]

The triumph was Norris’s 5th of the play and 3rd successful the past 4 races to Piastri’s six. It was besides McLaren’s seventh one-two successful 14 races.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was a frustrated 4th aft starting connected rod presumption but losing retired with a two-stop strategy and a five-second punishment for erratic driving arsenic Russell challenged.

Fernando Alonso finished 5th for Aston Martin up of Sauber’s sixth-placed Brazilian rookie Gabriel Bortoleto.

Lance Stroll was seventh for Aston Martin up of Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson with Red Bull’s reigning champion, Max Verstappen, and Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli completing the apical 10 scoring positions.

Seven-time satellite champion Lewis Hamilton, an eight-time victor successful Hungary, started successful 12th spot for Ferrari and finished there.

The Briton was lapped by the leaders six laps from the chequered flag.

Charles Leclerc of Ferrari leads astatine the commencement of the Hungarian Grand Prix [Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

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