Lando Norris holds off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to win F1 Hungarian Grand Prix

Generally, a Formulation 1 win is much less about pace than technique and gritty driving. Lando Norris held off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri in a tense end to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday (August 3, 2025) and increase his title probabilities.

Overtaking in Hungary is hard, however Norris needed to work exhausting to maintain the win as Piastri loomed behind him within the last laps.

Norris celebrated with a double fist pump on prime of his automotive after claiming McLaren’s two hundredth F1 win by lower than a second to chop Piastri’s standings result in 9 factors from 16.

“I am useless. It was robust, it was robust,” Norris mentioned. “The ultimate stint, with Oscar catching, I used to be pushing flat out.”

It was the fourth one-two end in a row for McLaren, with Norris successful three of these head-to-heads because the momentum swung again towards him forward of the four-week midseason break.

Making the proper callA 12 months on from a contentious first win for Piastri over Norris in Hungary after awkward radio messages, this was a race selected the observe.

Norris briefly dropped to fifth on the primary lap however made his tires final to cease solely as soon as, whereas Piastri modified tires twice.

Piastri steadily minimize into Norris’ lead within the latter levels of the race however the British driver held on with outdated tires to take the win. Piastri almost collided together with his teammate when he locked up a wheel whereas making an attempt to go on the second-to-last lap. Nonetheless, it was Norris who held on to have the final phrase of their title combat.

“Good racing. Good technique. Good name,” was how Norris summed it up on the radio.

Piastri’s two-stop method occurred as a result of, on the time, he and McLaren have been extra centered on getting forward of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, whose tempo finally fell away anyway.

“It wasn’t apparent that we simply had sufficient tempo to blow previous (Leclerc),” Piastri mentioned. “For Lando, there was just about nothing to lose by making an attempt a one-stop race. For myself, probably there was.”

George Russell took third for Mercedes after preventing his well beyond Leclerc in a contest that earned Leclerc a time penalty for almost colliding with Russell whereas defending.

Defending champion Max Verstappen was solely ninth after being off the tempo all week. He stays third within the standings, however drops to 97 factors off chief Piastri in one other heavy blow to an already unlikely title protection.

Ferrari frustrationLeclerc began on pole place with hopes of touchdown Ferrari its first Grand Prix win of the 12 months, however ended up fourth after a radio message of what he later admitted was misplaced blame aimed on the workforce.

“That is so extremely irritating. We have misplaced all competitiveness,” he instructed the workforce over the radio. Nonetheless, he later instructed broadcaster Sky Sports activities that the automotive really had a chassis downside he solely realized about later.

A day after calling himself “ineffective” and questioning whether or not Ferrari may want to interchange him, Lewis Hamilton ended up twelfth, precisely the place he began. His feedback after the race appeared set to gasoline extra hypothesis about his troubled first season with the Italian workforce.

“There’s so much occurring within the background that isn’t nice,” Hamilton instructed Sky Sports activities, with out explaining additional.

Hamilton by no means appeared to have the tempo to combat for factors and was at one stage pressured off the observe by Verstappen as his outdated rival overtook him.

Aston’s dayFernando Alonso took Aston Martin’s greatest results of the season with fifth on a sluggish observe that suited his automotive, with Gabriel Bortoleto a shock sixth for Sauber and Lance Stroll seventh within the different Aston Martin.

Liam Lawson was eighth for Racing Bulls, with Verstappen ninth and Kimi Antonelli tenth for Mercedes.