Lando Norris made it three wins from his last four races on Sunday with a hard-fought victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Despite a disastrous start which saw him slip from third to fifth in the opening seconds, the McLaren driver benefited from an improvised strategy to pit just once and managed to hold on to the lead despite a late challenge from teammate Oscar Piastri.
The Australian driver started and finished in second, meaning he is now just nine points ahead of Norris in the drivers’ world championship.
“That was tough, we weren’t really planning on the one stop at the beginning but after the first lap that was our only option to get back into things,” Norris told broadcaster Sky Sports afterward.
“The final stint with Oscar catching, I was pushing flat out, it’s rewarding even more because of that, the perfect result today.”
