The Formula 1 He closed the curtain for three weeks with the most solid of the battles fought by Lando Norriswinner of Hungary Grand Prix. The fight for World of 2025 It arrives very tight to the last ten races after the triumph of the British from the fourth position and there are already nine points that separate the pilots from McLarenwho were about to collide in the penultimate return for a block of wheels of Oscar Piastrisecond in the Hungaroring.
Norris stretched his game of hard tires to the end, nailed the times when he rode alone and although his partner came to reach him he was able to contain him, entering the finish line six tenths before. George Russell He celebrated the podium after several encounters with his team, but the greatest disgust took him Charles Leclercvery pissed with Ferrari before falling from pole to fourth place.
Fernando Alonso He maintained fifth place with a racing in which his excellent wheel management led him to his best result from the Saudi Arabia GP 2024. Spanish won Max Verstappenninth, with a strategy at a stop where when he wanted he opened a gap he put more than five seconds to Gabriel Bortoleto, Lance Stroll y Liam Lawson. Kimi andre antonelli closed the top 10 and Carlos Sainz He stayed in the fourteenth position after another planning difficult to understand Williams. One ahead of Alex Albon.
Alonso executed his plan perfectly. I wanted the fourth place and the clean air and it took few laps to get it. The lesson of the Asturian to Norris was sidereal, taking the outside and then the interior to advance in the first round. His victim was McLaren because Russell's departure was almost just as good and put him fully on the podium.
Alonso to Norris lesson
However, Alonso would begin to suffer soon in that struggle to keep the middle tire as much as possible and barely showed opposition in the next return to the fastest car of the championship. From Norris's return to fourth position, the Spanish focused on lengthening the initial magic trick with a Numantine defense about the pilot he represents, Bortoleto, who still had a notice for violating the rules at the exit.
And at the top, Piastri did not tickle a more determined Leclerc than ever for the victory. Carlos's departure was also excellent with the soft and served him to place himself in the twelfth position, tracing two at the start. The Madrid entered boxes in the window of the pilots who planned to stop twice and before Alonso received the order of Aston Martin that I could already squeeze. And when he did, he put almost a second by Bortoleto.
His commitment to Media-Duro was untouchable and thus advanced to the second position behind Norris after the stops of Leclerc, Piastri and Russell in Tour 20. He did not waste time and let the two first pass and held up to 26 to Mercedes. Those who aimed at being Alonso's great rivals Isack Hadjar in the middle of the two for a runway outlet of Ferrari.
Ecuador passed and Alonso continued without stopping, carefree from Verstappen's strategy and more pending what Bortoleto and Lawson did, which came just behind. Stroll did come forward, the Asturian endured one more and in Tour 39 he entered boxes. Meanwhile, Leclerc, Russell and Norris fought by radio with their engineers to let them pilot. The three had options, and also Piastri, although McLaren's British was going to play a stop.
Piastri approaches and vastoppen sinks
The Papaya strategy went into action and cheated a Leclerc that made its second stop and fell to the fourth position. Piastri led and sighed for stretching the hard until the end, just like Verstappen. After climbing to the fifth, who neither in his best dreams imagined it in the Hungaroringhe warned that it was going to be difficult to keep a hard of more than 20 laps when there were many others.
And there was Alonso, behind the Dutchman and waiting for his next movement to dream of the Top 5. Piastri and Russell saw that it was not possible to endure the hard and entered for another and again Norris put himself in front with Leclerc behind. The Australian, angry, began to squeeze like an animal and presage the worst if he reached his partner with 20 laps ahead.
In 51, Piastri's great maneuver to overcome Leclerc and eight seconds to reach Norris. Aston Martin's plan worked again when Verstappen entered Boxes and Alonso already had the fifth place in his hand, so he pressed again with the hard to get more than four seconds in Bortoleto in the absence of ten laps. He only had to fasten a great weekend and, why not, get excited that papaya rules ended in hostilities between the McLaren to climb some more position.
But they were not the only ones who could end badly because Russell, very fierce, and Leclerc, more of the same, were about to collide on the main line in the overtaking of Mercedes for a reckless braking of Monegasco. Six laps from the end, the gap between the McLaren was already a second. A World Cup room decided in Hungaroring and Norris remained firm as never. Exhaust when getting off the car celebrated his fifth victory, the most important by far.
