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Here’s Giles Richards’ race report from Hungaroring.
double quotation markLando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix with an assured drive for McLaren at the Hungaroring, his and the team’s first of the year. His run was a commanding performance once he was in front but behind him the there was no little drama and incident as Max Verstappen claimed second for Red Bull and Kimi Antonelli put in very strong comeback drive to take third from seventh on the gird, while Lewis Hamilton battled fiercely for all 70 laps and took a five-second penalty to finish fifth.
ShareConstructors’ standings
Updated after Hungarian GP
1 Mercedes 🇩🇪 379pts
2 Ferrari 🇮🇹 307
3 McLaren 🇬🇧 220
4 Red Bull 🇦🇹 177
5 Racing Bulls 🇮🇹 66
6 Alpine 🇫🇷 61
7 Haas 🇺🇸 21
8 Audi 🇩🇪 12
9 Williams 🇬🇧 11
10 Aston Martin 🇬🇧 1
11 Cadillac 🇺🇸 0
ShareDrivers’ standings
After Hungary
1 Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 Mercedes 219pts
2 Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 Ferrari 169
3 George Russell 🇬🇧 Mercedes 160
4 Charles Leclerc 🇲🇨 Ferrari 138
5 Lando Norris 🇬🇧 McLaren 128
6 Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 Red Bull 109
7 Oscar Piastri 🇦🇺 McLaren 92
8 Isack Hadjar 🇫🇷 Red Bull 68
9 Pierre Gasly 🇫🇷Alpine 42
10 Liam Lawson 🇳🇿 Racing Bulls 43
11 Arvid Lindblad 🇬🇧 Racing Bulls 23
12 Franco Colapinto 🇦🇷 Alpine 19
13 Oliver Bearman 🇬🇧 Haas 18
14 Gabriel Bortoleto 🇧🇷 Audi 10
15 Carlos Sainz 🇪🇸 Williams 6
16 Alexander Albon 🇹🇭 Williams 5
17 Esteban Ocon 🇫🇷Haas 3
18 Nico Hülkenberg 🇩🇪 Audi 2
19 Fernando Alonso 🇪🇸 Aston Martin 1
– Lance Stroll 🇨🇦 Aston Martin
– Valtteri Bottas 🇫🇮 Cadillac
– Sergio Pérez 🇲🇽 Cadillac
ShareHungarian GP top 10
1. Lando Norris
2. Max Verstappen
3. Kimi Antonelli
4. Charles Leclerc
5. Lewis Hamilton
6. Isaac Hadjar
7. George Russell
8. Liam Lawson
9. Nico Hulkenberg
10. Arvin Lindblad
Kimi Antonelli speaks: “It was a tough race. Um, you know, it was very hard to overtake, so we had to do something with strategy. And initially, we tried to go for the one stop. I tried to go for one stop, but then they told me that the tire was too much limit, so we stopped.
“I think today was big damage limitation, and we’re gonna keep pushing because, uh, you know, second half is gonna be hard, but we try our best.”
Max Verstappen speaks: “I didn’t expect to be on the podium today, but yeah, we worked hard for it…. I saw the opportunity as my only one, and, uh, yeah, I just went for it. We’re good on the brakes, so that helped, but I was, yeah, it was all under control.”
Lando Norris speaks: “I don’t know what happened, to be honest. I just kept losing the rear. Felt horrible, and then, of course, Oscar did a good job to get a cut back and get my pass, so I think I was just a bit wide in the dirt and get him over for the first time. But, no, I was pushing to try and force him into a mistake or something. My pace today was probably some of the best pace I’ve ever had. The car was beautiful to drive, and I felt very confident, so, a great race, which is certainly not what I was expecting, but the pace was so good.”
Norris to his McLaren team: ““Wooo! Beautiful. Car was unbelievable today. Well done guys. Incredible, we’re flying. Thank you so much for the car, nice to finally be able to do it all for you again. Feels like it’s been a while. Congrats. Hard work pays off.”
Race winner Lando Norris celebrates with his team in parc ferme. Photograph: Jordan McKean/Formula 1/Getty ImagesNorris lifts the trophy. Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 11.24 EDT
Big, friendly chat between Kimi Antonelli and Lando Norris. Verstappen looks cheerful. “Once you have clean air, you are flying,” he tells Norris.
The fastest driver was Carlos Sainz at 222mph, which will be no consolation to Oscar Piastri, with whom he had a touching of wheels before the previous leader’s withdrawal.
Finishing third will be helpful for championship leader Kimi Antonelli.
“An excellent drive,” Red Bull tell Verstappen. “How I finished second today, I don’t know,” he grumps.
Norris: “Woooh, beautiful, car was brilliant today….I love you all.”
ShareLando Norris wins the Hungarian Grand Prix
70/70 Norris wins his first GP of the season, with Verstappen in second, Antonelli third. Hamilton finishes fourth, though will drop to fifth with that penalty, and Leclerc jumping over his teammate.
McLaren’s British driver Lando Norris drives through the finish line to win. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.48 EDT
69/70 “Handing out penalties like crazy,” moans Hamilton as the Ferrari team break the bad news. Verstappen is holding on to second in some comfort. McLaren are worried that Norris doesn’t suffer the same fate as Piastri.
68/70 Hamilton is 4.5 seconds off Leclerc and so should drop down to fifth if that pace sustains to the end of the race.
67/70 Norris’s serenity remains, having ridden out his losing pole on the opening lap. He’s told “no exit kerbs”. His team think that’s what did for Piastri. He is asked to nurse the McLaren home.
ShareConfirmation: Hamilton gets speeding penalty
66/70 That means he needs to get a bend on to hold off Leclerc who is setting fastest laps.
65/70 Verstappen, for all his complaints, has had quite a decent run of the race. A second-placed position is within his grasp.
64/70 These back markers are drivers in the top 10. That cost Antonelli two seconds in his pursuit of Verstappen. Lindblad, in ninth, is overtaken by Hulkenberg as he has to give way.
63/70 Antonelli is giving chase to Verstappen, who is just 0.6 seconds behind but he also has to deal with traffic, and all those back markers mean Hamilton can catch him up.
ShareHamilton speeding in the pit lane?
62/70 That pit-exited clash with Antonelli proves ill-fated for Hamilton. That will be five seconds.
61/70 Norris is a second slower than those two fliers. Back in the points, Hulkenberg is in 10th, as Bortoletto’s lack of tyres slows him down.
60/70 Good battle between Antonelli and Hamilton. The former Mercedes man takes on his old team, his replacement, and has to ride out a back-end slide.
59/70 Hamilton made a judicious choice there. Now, does he have the time left to chase down Verstappen? Antonelli has similar intentions.
58/70 Did Hamilton risk a penalty there during the virtual safety car? “I think I was ahead,” says Antonelli. “We’re talking it through,” say his team. Hamilton hands back the place to Antonelli in third. Can Verstappen, nine seconds ahead, stay away?
57/70 Cheap pits for Norris and Hamilton. Antonelli’s stop came at the wrong time. Norris still leads ahead of Verstappen, who did not pit, with Hamilton and Antonelli.
SharePiastri slows down and stops
56/70 Piastri, the former race leader, is out. Looks like his gears locked him. Virtual safety car.
55/70 Russell is coming in for Mercedes as he seeks to save his horror weekend. Antonelli asks what position he is in. “We have potential for P2,” he is told on the radio.
54/70 Antonelli pits and comes out in sixth, ahead of Russell, luckless. Norris and Piastri are in front, and the gap between the two is 12.3 seconds.
53/70 Norris has the race to himself, the real race will happen for the podium positions. The gap is 8.5 seconds to Antonelli, whose team tell him his tyres will need to be changed.
52/70 Hamilton is closing on Piastri but Verstappen is closing on Hamilton. There’s plenty left in the race.
51/70 Sergio Perez has drawn to a near-half in his Cadillac, having come off the track. He is crawling along, and making a nuisance of himself. Looks like both Cadillacs are out of the race.
50/70 Leclerc escapes punishment for yellow flag infringement but tells his team the car is out of rhythm. Red Bull tell Verstappen he “can have some fun at the end”.