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 took a crucial victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, holding off McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in the closing stages of a tense race. It means that Norris reduces the gap to his Australian team-mate to just nine points heading into the summer break.