Relations in McLaren F1 Team might be a bit tense after the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri won the his first career Formula One grand prix at the Hungaroring after Lando Norris listened to team orders at the end of the race to allow his teammate to win.
“This is really the day I dreamed up as a kid, standing on top of an F1 podium,” Piastri said. “Obviously, a bit complicated at the end, but put myself in the right position at the start. Thank you to the team for the amazing effort, amazing car. It’s a hell of a lot of fun to race with McLaren. So, I can’t thank them enough for giving me the opportunity to be in F1.”
Lewis Hamilton collected his 200th career F1 podium after holding off Max Verstappen, who made contact with the Mercedes in the closing laps. Verstappen fell to fifth behind the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez, George Russell, Yuki Tsunoda and Lance Stroll rounded out the top 10.
Prior to lights out, Norris’ team scrambled to fix a discovered throttle issue on the grid, and team mechanics and engineers were able to make the repair in time for the start of the race.
Piastri got off to a lightning start from second as the two McLarens and Verstappen from third went three wide into turn 1 off the start, and Verstappen went wide to avoid colliding once more with his championship rival Norris.
The move gained Piastri early control of the lead and allowed him to start gapping the field.
Verstappen settled into second, but a looming FIA investigation for leaving the track and gaining an advantage forced the two-time world champion’s hand to give second back to Norris.
Try as he might, Verstappen pressured Norris for second, but he eventually fell out of DRS range and continued on early in third briefly.
Hamilton was the first to pit in the first cycle of pit stops and allowed the winner of the previous British Grand Prix to perform the undercut on Verstappen for third.
By the halfway mark on lap 35, Verstappen made up time on Hamilton on older, hard compound tires and looked to make the pass for third after a lock up by Hamilton’s Mercedes in turn 1. However, Verstappen ran wide once more in turn 2 and had to make up the gap once more.
Meanwhile up front, Piastri originally had a 4-second lead over his teammate, but he went wide out of turn 4 and allowed Norris to close in on his McLaren teammate to 1.3 seconds, just outside of DRS…
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