United Kingdom’s Lando Norris holds off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri of Australia to win Hungarian Grand Prix.Lando Norris has held off McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on a one-stop strategy and slash the Australian’s Formula One lead to nine points going into the August break.Norris completed 39 of the 70 laps on Sunday at the Hungaroring on a single set of hard tyres while Piastri stopped twice and closed a 12-second gap to just 0.6 at the finish with a nail-biting chase to the chequered flag and a near-collision.George Russell took a distant third, 20 seconds down the road, for Mercedes and his fifth podium of the season.“I’m dead. I’m dead. It was tough,” gasped Norris, who started in third place – with Piastri second – and then went down to fifth after being squeezed at the start.“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.” Race winner Lando Norris of Great Britain driving the #4 McLaren MCL39 Mercedes takes the chequered flag during the Grand Prix in Hungary [Clive Rose/Getty Images]The win was Norris’s fifth of the season and third in the past four races to Piastri’s six. It was also McLaren’s seventh one-two in 14 races.Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was a frustrated fourth after starting on pole …
