Tense was not the word as Oscar Piastri hunted down team mate Lando Norris in the closing stages of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Ultimately Norris held his nerve to win by barely half a second and give McLaren a double century of GP victories. But there were plenty more fascinating figures further down the Budapest grid as well\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThis race saw the closest winning margin in a green-flag finish in 2025 at 0.698s.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tMcLaren<\/a> scored their fourth consecutive one-two finish for only the second time in their history (a feat they previously achieved with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in 1988).<\/p>\n \u2022\tMcLaren today won their 200th world championship Grand Prix, making them only the second team to do so in F1 history after Ferrari<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022\tIt was McLaren\u2019s 13th Hungaroring victory (six more than any other constructor).<\/p>\n \u2022\tRace winner Norris<\/a> finished second in the 2023 and 2024 Hungarian Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tNorris\u2019 1.9 second pit stop today was provisionally the fastest pit stop of the 2025 season to date.<\/p>\n \u2022\tMcLaren finished one-two in Hungary for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n \u2022\tPiastri<\/a> finished second. Last season he passed Norris for victory on lap 68 of the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tPiastri now has eight wins and eight second places in his F1 career.<\/p>\n \u2022\tGeorge Russell<\/a>\u2019s P3 for Mercedes<\/a> was his sixth podium finish of the season.<\/p>\n \u2022\tMercedes-Benz power units locked out the Hungaroring podium for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n \u2022\tWith Charles Leclerc<\/a> taking P4 for Ferrari, it meant the polesitter failed to win in Hungary for the fifth consecutive year.<\/p>\n \u2022\tLeclerc has only won one of his last 16 starts from pole (Monaco 2024).<\/p>\n \u2022\tLeclerc had only led 20 laps all season before today.<\/p>\n \u2022\tFernando Alonso<\/a>\u2019s P5 was Aston Martin<\/a>\u2019s best result of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n \u2022\tAlonso has scored points in 13 of the last 14 Hungarian Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tGabriel Bortoleto<\/a>\u2019s P6 for Kick Sauber<\/a> was his third points finish in the last four Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tIt was Sauber\u2019s best Hungaroring result since Nick Heidfeld finished third in 2007.<\/p>\n \u2022\tLance Stroll<\/a> took P7 for Aston Martin and has finished seventh twice in the last three Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tLiam Lawson<\/a>\u2019s Racing Bulls<\/a> was the highest-finishing Red Bull-owned car with P8.<\/p>\n \u2022\tLawson finished eighth for a second consecutive Grand Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tWorld Champion Max Verstappen<\/a> finished P9 for Red Bull<\/a>, 1m 12s behind the race winner.<\/p>\n \u2022\tVerstappen has not finished on the podium at the last four Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tKimi Antonelli<\/a>\u2019s P10 in the Mercedes was only his second points finish in the last eight Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u2022\tIn the second Racing Bulls, Isack Hadjar<\/a> finished in P11. His only points in the last five race weekends came in the Belgium Sprint.<\/p>\n \u2022\tLewis Hamilton<\/a>\u2019s P12 for Ferrari was his worst Hungaroring result for 15 years.<\/p>\n \u2022\tHamilton finished in the same position he started.<\/p>\n \u2022\tKick Sauber\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> took P13 and has not scored at the Hungaroring since 2016.<\/p>\n \u2022\tAlpine<\/a>\u2019s Franco Colapinto<\/a> in P17 and Pierre Gasly<\/a> in P18 were the two last classified finishers.<\/p>\n