{"id":826845,"date":"2026-07-27T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:38:12","slug":"mclarens-team-principal-hails-great-trajectory-of-lando-norris-after-win-lando-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826845\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren\u2019s team principal hails \u2018great trajectory\u2019 of Lando Norris after win | Lando Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris is at the peak of his powers after his win at the Hungarian Grand Prix<\/a> demonstrated the world champion has a stronger psychological approach to driving, according to the McLaren team principal, Andrea Stella.<\/p>\n

Norris took his team\u2019s first win of the season on Sunday with a commanding drive at the Hungaroring after Mercedes dominance for much of the campaign. The Briton has always maintained his team would come back into contention and duly did so, beating the Red Bull of Max Verstappen into second and the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli into third.<\/p>\n

McLaren brought more upgrades to Hungary, which proved effective on a track that is dominated by relentless cornering, but Stella pointedly noted how much Norris had developed since taking his first title last year<\/a>. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t really had the machinery to show it so far, but he showed it today,\u201d he said. \u201cLando is much more confident. He\u2019s much more aware of his tools he has in his driving, how to deploy these tools. He\u2019s also more in control of his emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris had been very quick in the race, despite dropping a place to his McLaren<\/a> teammate, Oscar Piastri, on the opening corners. Having regained the lead, Stella admired how well Norris had handled the situation. \u201cWhen he was behind Oscar, he said a couple of times that he had pace in hand, but he didn\u2019t get frustrated. \u201cThe fact he wasn\u2019t overly frustrated then allowed him to use the pace at the right time and lead him to the victory. We\u2019ve seen a great trajectory of development for Lando.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mercedes\u2019 George Russell<\/a>, who is now trailing his teammate, the championship leader, Antonelli, by 59 points, finished in seventh place after a technical problem on the grid left him with a slow start. He dropped to 20th before rallying back to seventh, but after a series of problems with his car this season, he has all but lost patience with the repeated problems that had cost him so many points.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m past the point of disappointment now, because if I\u2019m continuing to be disappointed with everything that goes on, I\u2019ll just be disappointed every day of the week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s just unbelievable, the list of things that\u2019s happened this season. It does feel like it is happening substantially more to me than others and hopefully it swings around. I don\u2019t wish any bad luck on anyone, but I\u2019ve never had a season like this in my whole career, let alone my F1 career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris is at the peak of his powers after his win at the Hungarian Grand Prix demonstrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-826845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}