Lando Norris held his ground by taking just one pit stop and challenging it to finish at the top in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. Both McLaren drivers ended up switching their positions from last weekend before they head into the mid-season break.While Oscar Piastri changed tires twice, Norris made his tires last to stop only once. “I’m dead. It was tough, it was tough,” Norris said. “The final stint, with Oscar catching, I was pushing flat out.” He claimed McLaren’s 200th F1 win by less than a second to cut Piastri’s standings lead to nine points from 16.
LAP 69/70Piastri has a lunge at Turn 1, locks up and Norris keeps the lead! ????#F1 #HungarianGP pic.twitter.com/drJbh3trZp
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LAP 70/70Norris takes the chequered flag with Piastri hounding him all the way to the end ⚔️A dramatic finale to the 40th Hungarian Grand Prix ????#F1 #HungarianGP pic.twitter.com/jDf0ezyDuK
— Formula 1 (@F1) August 3, 2025George Russell took third for Mercedes after fighting his way past Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Leclerc started on pole position with hopes of landing Ferrari its first Grand Prix win of the year but ended up fourth after blaming the team for decisions he said left his car “undrivable.”Defending champion Max Verstappen was only ninth after being off the pace all week. He stays third in the standings, but drops to 97 points off leader Piastri in another heavy blow to an already unlikely title defense.Leclerc started on pole position with hopes of landing Ferrari its first Grand Prix win of the year, but ended up fourth after blaming the team for decisions he said left his car “undriveable.” “This is so incredibly frustrating. We’ve lost all competitiveness,” he told the team over the radio.It wasn’t immediately clear what, if anything, Ferrari changed on his car, but Leclerc dropped so far off the pace in his final stint that the two McLaren drivers and Russell questioned what happened to him as they chatted after the race.A day after calling himself “useless” and questioning whether Ferrari might need to replace him, Lewis Hamilton ended up 12th, exactly where he started. Hamilton never seemed to have the pace to fight for points and was at one stage forced off the track by Verstappen as his old rival overtook him.Aston’s dayFernando Alonso took Aston Martin’s best result of the season with fifth on a slow track that suited his car, with Gabriel Bortoleto a surprise sixth for Sauber and Lance Stroll seventh in the other Aston Martin.Liam Lawson was eighth for Racing Bulls, with Verstappen ninth and Kimi Antonelli 10th for Mercedes.(With PTI inputs)First Published: Aug 3, 2025 9:08 PM IST
