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.

McLaren admits that it thought the two-stop would be "the dominant strategy” at the Hungarian Grand Prix, but that didn’t stop Lando Norris from making a one-stop work

Lando Norris beat his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by less than a second to win the Hungarian Grand Prix in a tense finish.