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Lando Norris: How McLaren driver defied staff expectations to beat Oscar Piastri at Hungarian Grand Prix
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Lando Norris: How McLaren driver defied staff expectations to beat Oscar Piastri at Hungarian Grand Prix

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Group principal Andrea Stella has revealed McLaren didn’t suppose the one-stop technique which received Lando Norris the Hungarian Grand Prix was doable earlier than the race.

Norris held off Oscar Piastri after an intense battle to cut back his championship deficit to 9 factors going into Formulation 1’s summer season break.

The British driver began in third however fell to fourth behind George Russell and was already seven seconds behind race-leader Charles Leclerc and Piastri earlier than they pitted for the primary time.

“Our baseline strategy was a two-stop strategy,” Stella defined.

“We didn’t essentially suppose a one-stop was doable, so we went with the two-stop for Oscar to try to go Leclerc within the first cease. Then we tried to increase within the second cease to have a tyre delta and this labored.

“With Lando, once we prolonged, leaving Lando out, we didn’t suppose the one-stop would have been doable. However, credit score to Lando, he put collectively some very robust sectors and lap occasions with used tyres, so we satisfied ourselves the one-stop was beginning to get into the sport as we progressed with the primary stint.

“We did not enter the race with a one or a two-stop. We thought the two-stop would be the strategy.”

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Watch the primary lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix as Charles Leclerc holds onto the lead whereas Lando Norris drops locations to George Russell and Fernando Alonso

Norris made the mediums final till Lap 32, practically half of the race, which was key to his victory because the tyres averted falling off a cliff and was nonetheless main when he pitted for hards.

“It’s more just making them last at the pace that we were at. I made the mediums last until, like, what, lap 32 or something,” he mentioned.

“It wasn’t a terrible thought that I can make the hards last until the end. It was more I just knew I’d have to push flat out for basically every single lap, and that’s when it gets a little bit tricky.

“The tyres get sizzling. It is easy to make errors. The previous few laps, the rubber might be fairly low, and it is simply really easy to lock a tyre into one, into two, the chicane, issues like that.

“I knew I could make the tyres get to the end quite easily, but it was more to stay ahead of the other people. It was trying to get ahead of mainly George and Charles at that point. I didn’t have a lot of hope that I’d still be in a fight with Oscar till the very end but turned out to be. So that was even better.”

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Anthony Davidson was at the SkyPad to explain how Lando Norris prevailed over McLaren team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri in a 'complex' Hungarian Grand Prix.

Anthony Davidson was on the SkyPad to clarify how Lando Norris prevailed over McLaren team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri in a ‘complicated’ Hungarian Grand Prix

Norris: I used to be banking on a Security Automobile

Norris says his ninth profession F1 win on Sunday was his first utilizing the choice technique, though he referenced his maiden victory on the 2024 Miami Grand Prix when a Security Automobile performed into his fingers when working lengthy within the first stint.

He revealed the considering behind his one-stop technique in Hungary was to try to luck right into a well timed Security Automobile or Digital Security Automobile to get again into the lead battle.

“When Will (his engineer) asked me, ‘What do you think of the one-stop?’ I think at that point, I was already, like, seven seconds behind Oscar and eight or nine behind Charles,” he mentioned.

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MCLAREN

McLaren team-mates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri react to their battle for P1 on the Hungarian Grand Prix

“Not that I thought my race was over, but it was pretty slim that I was going to be able to at least fight from there, even on a perfect two-stop strategy. So, my expectations were not high, but I was more banking on a Safety Car or a VSC or something to bring me back into the race.

“However I did not have any of that. In the long run, I suppose it did not matter. My confidence wasn’t the very best, however it was my greatest probability of attempting to do one thing.

“It turned out to be a little bit trickier because it actually allowed me to fight until the very end for the win. Not sure it still felt like the best strategy, but I think with how difficult overtaking was, it turned out to be pretty good.”

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Lando Norris has received three of the final 4 races going into the summer season break

Piastri questions technique with hindsight

After his second pit cease, Piastri had 12 seconds to shut down on Norris with 25 laps remaining. Not like Norris on the earlier race in Belgium, he frequently took chunks out of his deficit with out making any apparent errors and caught him with six laps to go.

He had a half look into Flip 1 with three laps remaining then threw the automobile into the primary nook on the penultimate lap, locking up and simply avoiding contact with Norris, who left room on the within.

“I was able to close the gap again pretty quickly for the last lap. Getting to within six or seven tenths was doable, but to then get even closer than that, I think I needed brand new softs to be able to do much from that point,” mentioned Piastri.

“It was at all times going to be robust once I obtained shut. However, I imply, you by no means wish to not take a chance that you simply suppose is there in case one other one by no means comes up.

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LECLERC PIASTRI

Oscar Piastri eases previous Oscar Piastri to safe P2 on the Hungarian Grand Prix

“I had to go for it and, you know, in hindsight, obviously you can say maybe I should have waited another lap, but I’m pretty convinced that even if I had waited one more lap, it wouldn’t have changed anything.”

On his technique he added: “In the race, I got asked about it [a one-stop]. Very difficult to know from the cockpit what is going to be the best thing to do.

“While you’re the automobile behind, your risk-reward ratio is at all times a lot completely different. There’s at all times that. Might we’ve matched Lando? That is, I suppose, the query that I haven’t got the reply to. So, I suppose that is the one factor.”

Equally as spectacular as Piastri’s driving, Norris additionally didn’t put a foot flawed as each drivers pushed extremely laborious to complete 21 seconds away from third-placed Russell.

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Watch the final lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix as McLaren team-mates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri battle it out for the highest spot

Norris mentioned: “It was tough, those last few laps were some of the toughest laps because Oscar was pushing flat out on a much nicer tyre than my one.

“I used to be simply attempting to not make a mistake and when the tyre is so on the finish of a stint it was really easy to lock up.

“It just felt so easy to make a mistake so I felt like I had to drive at 100 per cent and it was too much and I drive at 98 per cent I feel I’m under the limit and not getting anything out of the car.

“So there was the 99 per cent restrict that was so laborious to be on however one I needed to be on for so long as doable.”

Brown: As close to perfect as possible

McLaren chief executive Zak Brown has consistently said his drivers are free to race and was ecstatic that the team scored their fourth consecutive one-two of the season after the thrilling battle.

He told Sky Sports F1: “You are by no means good in a race however I feel that was as near good as you will get. The drivers had been superior, pit stops wonderful, technique was nice to get Lando up there, Oscar drove brilliantly. I could not be prouder of this racing staff.

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Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had an epic battle within the closing levels of the race in Hungary

“All under control. I had some good chats with Andrea [Stella] during the race, it was very exciting. It was a great grand prix.

“With Lando’s first lap, we weren’t planning a one-stop technique, we did not know if we might however then it obtained to a degree the place let’s attempt. Knew it could come all the way down to the final 5 laps there and good to see them race very laborious, very clear and so they’re each joyful boys.”

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