Lando Norris said what every F1 fan is thinking with eight-word claim after Hungarian GP

"I look forward to plenty more of these," said Lando Norris after a nail-biting late duel with title rival Oscar Piastri. So do we, Lando, because the Brit pulled off superb one-stop strategy to secure a third win in his last four and fifth overall of 2025.

He heads into the summer break just nine points behind his McLaren team-mate at the top of the championship as a result. Charles Leclerc, 27, started on pole and led the first half of the race, his Ferrari capable of holding off the marauding McLarens.

But a mystery issue struck which saw him drop back and from that point, a 200th F1 win for McLaren was a formality. What still needed to be decided was which driver would secure it. Norris found himself leading after changing strategy to a one-stop, but was being hunted down by Piastri late on.

He said: "The last few laps were the toughest because Oscar was pushing flat out on much nicer tyres than mine. I was just trying to not make a mistake and when the tyre is so at the end of its stint, it is so easy to lock up."

But it was Piastri who did that and only narrowly avoided ploughing into his team-mate on the penultimate lap. After that hair-raising moment, he was told over the radio to "remember how we go racing", and didn't try to overtake again, crossing the line 0.6 seconds behind Norris.

George Russell, 27, made it to third in his Mercedes, sweeping past Leclerc who had spent the last 30 laps raging about his flagging Ferrari. The Monegasque has now converted just one of his last SIXTEEN pole positions into victory.

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He moaned: "It's frustrating to have everything under control, to know the pace is in the car to win, and then to be nowhere and we even lost the podium, so very disappointing." Things were no better for Ferrari in the other car as Lewis Hamilton, 40, finished 12th, where he started, one lap down.

On Saturday he declared himself "useless" and said the team "probably need to change driver" after his qualifying shocker. His mood was no better after yesterday's race as he offered a cryptic explanation of his comments the previous day.

Head bowed, the seven-time champ said: "When you have a feeling, you have a feeling. There is a lot going on in the background that is not great." Hamilton needs this summer break more than anyone right now but did declare: "I still love racing."

Max Verstappen, 27, laboured to ninth in a Red Bull car that has regressed horribly and escaped a penalty when accused of running Hamilton off the road. That was just one week on from his Sprint victory in Belgium and he looked puzzled as he said: "This weekend, nothing worked unfortunately. We're not at the level of McLaren who are doing a really good job, but this is just a bit weird for us."