World champion wins from pole; Piastri’s gearbox fails
Max Verstappen second, Kimi Antonelli third
Lando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix with an assured drive for McLaren at the Hungaroring, his and the team’s first victory 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.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was in fourth but Norris’s McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri who had been leading and ultimately had to retire on lap 56 with a gearbox problem, was left fuming that he had been struck and blocked while trying to lap the backmarker Carlos Sainz in a Williams at a crucial point in the race.
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World champion wins from pole; Piastri’s gearbox failsMax Verstappen second, Kimi Antonelli thirdLando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix with an assured drive for McLaren at the Hungaroring, his and the team’s first...
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