Norris opted for a Hail Mary one-stop strategy when race engineer Will Joseph floated the idea mid-race. As the final laps unfolded, he had older tires and was racing in dirty air as they caught up to traffic with no DRS assistance. Piastri was quickly narrowing the gap, getting it within eight-tenths of a second with five laps to go.

Lando Norris beat his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by less than a second to win the Hungarian Grand Prix in a tense finish.

Lando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday with the help of a one-stop strategy to close in on championship leader and McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri. Norris enters a four-week summer break nine points behind Piastri,