{"id":545200,"date":"2026-07-26T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545200\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:15:14","slug":"lando-norris-wins-hungarian-grand-prix-lawson-eighth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545200\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris wins Hungarian Grand Prix, Lawson eighth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwi Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson<\/a> has finished eighth in the Hungarian Grand Prix overnight. <\/p>\n

Lawson gained four points as he came in ahead of Audi’s Nico Hulkenberg in ninth and teammate Arvid Lindblad in 10th. <\/p>\n

Prior to the race, the 24-year-old finished inside the top 10 in both practice sessions<\/a> – and came after Lawson received the same upgrade package for his VCARB 03 that his teammate Arvid Lindblad debuted in Belgium<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He started the race from 11th spot. <\/p>\n

He goes into the summer break with 43 points and in ninth place overall – the best driver outside the big four teams. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lando Norris ended an eight-month wait by “flying” to a Formula 1 victory with strong pace and a dose of good fortune. <\/p>\n

The defending champion was on pole but lost the lead to his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri when he ran wide at the second corner.<\/p>\n

Norris got the lead back after Piastri was delayed by a collision with Carlos Sainz Jr. while lapping the Williams driver, allowing Norris to come out of the pits ahead of his teammate. He cruised to the win from there.<\/p>\n

\"McLaren<\/p>\n

McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain celebrates after winning the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

“Car was unbelievable today, well done guys, incredible. We were flying,” Norris said. “Nice to be finally able to do it all for you. Feels like it\u2019s been a while.”<\/p>\n

Piastri then stopped with a broken gearbox, paving the way for Max Verstappen to take second, with Kimi Antonelli third.<\/p>\n

Antonelli gets another boost in the title fight<\/p>\n

Even with Mercedes largely off the pace for once and a three-place grid penalty in qualifying, Antonelli recovered from seventh to take his ninth podium finish in 11 races and make a statement to his title rivals.<\/p>\n

Antonelli increased his standings lead to 50 points over Lewis Hamilton, who was fifth after a penalty for speeding in the pits. George Russell was barely a factor as he drove through the field to seventh after a near-stall at the start dropped him to the back. He drops 59 points behind his Mercedes teammate Antonelli.<\/p>\n

\"McLaren<\/p>\n

McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain crosses the finish line to win the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Norris hadn’t won a full Grand Prix race since Sao Paulo in November, though he did win a sprint in Miami in May.<\/p>\n

Hungary was the last race before the mid-season break. The next race is the Dutch Grand Prix on August 23.<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton left to rue yet another penalty<\/p>\n

“Sometimes you just can\u2019t catch a break,” Hamilton had written on Instagram on Saturday. He discussed how his three-place penalty in qualifying \u2014 Hamilton\u2019s third penalty in three race weekends \u2014 made it “difficult to hang on to that positivity”. <\/p>\n

\"Ferrari<\/p>\n

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain gets in his car ahead of the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

A fourth penalty won\u2019t have helped, and nor will yet another Ferrari strategy blunder.<\/p>\n

When Piastri\u2019s breakdown at the side of the road brought a virtual safety car slowdown, Ferrari decided it was worth calling in Hamilton for fresh tires.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the seven-time champion, he left the pit lane to see Antonelli approaching fast. In what appeared to be a rush to keep the Mercedes driver at bay, Hamilton broke the pit lane speed limit.<\/p>\n

Hamilton ended up being asked to give the place back to Antonelli and was then given a five-second penalty that dropped him behind teammate Charles Leclerc in the final standings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHanding out penalties like crazy,\u201d he told Ferrari over the radio.<\/p>\n

– Additional reporting by 1News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson has finished eighth in the Hungarian Grand Prix overnight. Lawson gained four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-545200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}