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Strategy the key as Norris closes in on Piastri with Hungary GP win
DPA Budapest 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, promising a thrilling final 10 races of the season. The Briton got his fifth season and ninth career victory - and a 200th for McLaren - ahead of the charging Piastri, who tried to pass entering the penultimate lap and almost hit him after locking up, and Mercedes driver George Russell. Surprise pole-sitter Charles Leclerc of Ferrari faded to fourth, while Norris won from third place on the grid and after slipping to fifth in lap one thanks to the strategy and good tyre management. World champion Max Verstappen had to settle for ninth in his Red Bull and is now 97 points off the top. Record champion Lewis Hamilton in the other Ferrari was unable to improve from his 12th place on the grid in a weekend to forget. The vast majority of drivers pitted twice while Norris said he and the team changed to one stop after the opening phase did not go well. 'I'm dead. It was tough,' Norris said. 'We weren't really planning on the one-stop but after the first lap it was kind of our only option to get back into things. 'I didn't think it would get us the win, I thought it would get us maybe into second,' he added. 'The final stint with Oscar catching I was pushing flat out. 'It always is a bit of a gamble these kind of things. It also requires no mistakes, good laps, good strategy and that's what we had today.' Norris spoke of 'a perfect result' but added there was still a long way to go in the title race. 'We're so tightly fought it's hard to say if momentum is on anyone's side,' he said. Piastri said: 'I pushed as hard as I could. After I saw Lando going for a one-stop, I knew I was going to have to overtake on track, which is much easier said than done around here.' Looking at his late passing attempt, he said: 'I think I needed to be at least a couple of tenths closer which was going to take a mistake from Lando to achieve that. 'I felt that was going to be my best chance. You never want to try and save it for the next lap, then it never comes, so I thought I would at least try.' Leclerc won the start from Piastri while Norris dropped from third to fifth after initially trying to challenge Piastri - falling behind Russell and Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin. Norris soon got past Alonso again but found no way to get ahead of Russell while Piastri had no chance to pass the leading Lecelerc. Norris was swept into first place once the others pitted, and got his fresh rubbers much later in lap 32 as the strategy became clear. Further back, Verstappen and Hamilton found themselves in a tussle for 11th place which Verstappen won as Hamilton ran wide after they almost made contact. The incident was to be reviewed post-race. After the second round of pit stops Piastri soon swept past Leclerc and then started to hunt down Norris. He came within striking distance but his attempt entering the penultimate lap but fell short as Norris held on with his old tryres. Russell meanwhile dipped past Leclerc with eight laps left but was lucky when Leclerc almost drove into him. The Monegasque was hit with a five-second penalty over the incident. 'It was a bit dicey with Charles at some points,' Russell said. 'I think we made contact the second time. Just glad to get through it and a nice way to go into the break.' Alonso held on to fifth, ahead of impressive Gabriel Bortoleto of Sauber, Aston Martin's Lance Stroll, Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson, Verstappen and Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli. Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate Yuki Tsunoda managed no bethher than 17th.
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Hopefully I will be back – Hamilton after Budapest nightmare
PA Media/DPA Budapest A dejected Lewis Hamilton said he will 'hopefully' return for Formula One's next race - after he cryptically claimed 'there is a lot going on in the background that is not great' following the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest ob Sunday. A day after Hamilton described himself as 'absolutely useless', and called on his own Ferrari team to replace him, the seven-time world champion started 12th and finished in the same position at the Hungaroring, a lap behind winner Lando Norris. Charles Leclerc was fourth in the other Ferrari. Fronting up to TV cameras after the conclusion of the 14th race of his Ferrari career which has so far failed to live up to its pre-season hype, Hamilton was asked to reflect on his post-qualifying comments. 'When you have a feeling, you have a feeling,' he told Sky Sports. 'There is a lot going on in the background that is not great.' Asked if he had fallen out of love with racing, Hamilton replied: 'No, I still love the team.' Hamilton then headed for his session with the print media. Quizzed on how he felt a day on from being eliminated in Q2 - a performance made all the more harrowing after Leclerc took pole position, he replied: 'Same.' Put to him that his remarks suggesting that Ferrari 'need a new driver' would worry his fans, the British driver again replied: 'Same.' Asked if he had anything else to say other than 'the same', Hamilton said: 'I have got nothing else to say.' The sport now breaks for four weeks for its mid-season shutdown. The next race takes place in the Netherlands on August 31.
