Race Highlights | 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix
Through four decades here, we’ve witnessed first time winners, championships won, incredible underdog stories, and the upending of the expected order time and time again. 1 2 3 4 five red lights in Budapest and the Hungarian Grand Prix is underway. Even reaction time and Lando Norris has got to run. P3 man has got to run on his championship rival. Charlotte Clair is trying to break the toe. Norris won’t go for it to the inside. Might be compromised. George Russley’s up to third. Can he keep it? Yes, he can keep it. He gets the power down and he gets by. Worst case scenario for Lando Norris might be about to get even worse as well. Lando Norris has got Fernando. Alonzo going to the inside. Can Alonzo make it even worse? He’s challenging George Russell. Tile warm up is going to be crucial here and Norris dips down. He’s down to fifth. Pastri in second. Shlair leads. It initially looked like Lando had the best of the starts and went immediately attacking to the inside. I wonder if he lifted off or missed an upshift because suddenly had no momentum and was just gobbled up by Russell and Alonso. Great start for Norris. Just didn’t go anywhere. No. So they’re weaving around and then Lando Bre so early for the first corner as well. Didn’t want to do the Valtry Botas move from a few years ago and uh and go temping bowling down there. Max Stappen’s trying to line up Liam Lawson, junior team versus senior team. And it won’t take long for Versappen to get by. He’s trying to improve back up to eighth. Former teammates this year. And Lawson surely is going to bite that. No, Max incisive straight up the inside and feeling a lot more confidence than than Liam in these early laps. He is tucked in behind Fernando Alonzo. There he goes. He’s going to be really close. Okay, he’s got the DRS. This is crucial for Norris. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be a contest. He needed that. He’s got it up to P4 for the man second in the points battle to win the drivers championship. So Vstappen recovering the position is the latest development inside the top 10. We’ve also had Landon Norris recover. Look at that late on the brakes. You don’t get many moves into the chicane. Max Stappen has two in two laps. Bold stuff. Big call from McLaren. Big inlap required for Oscar Pastry. Huge pressure on the shoulders of the pit crew. Punchy stuff, but it’s a brilliant stop. That looked he was barely stationary at all there. Pastry who rejoined the circuit. Stops on the marks. It’s clean for Ferrari. And it was 22 seconds when he peeled to the pit stop and they’ve matched it when they needed to. Exceptional fromlair. Turn one and he’s covered him. He’s covered him. Ferrari under pressure. And Shalair with the lock up. He’s going to have to bring these tires into the temperature window. George Russell rejoins as well. Oh, guys, it’s really terrible. This idea pitted so much traffic. Remember, he’s trying to undercut Bortalto and Alono. That’s why Red Bull pitted him, but Stappen was frustrated in behind Gabriel Bortletto in that first in. So, now they’ve pitted him into what they hope would be clear air, but yeah, he’s not actually going any quicker than Bortalto or Alonso at the moment. George Russell making his way in close proximity to the Aston Martin ahead. Oh, and they nearly made contact there on the way down to turn two. Alonso yet to pit. Russell trying to reclaim the place. And that was closer than it needed to be. Sando, we’re considering the one stop. It’ll be 40 laps on a hard tire. Going for it. Yeah, why not? Yeah, they’re going for it now. And that means he’s going to pit in a couple of laps according to the very uncoded message there from from Will Joseph. Max Stappen trying to get past Lewis Hamilton. And in the battle for the net race lead, you’re looking at the battery deployment on the right hand side of your picture. ALA up against Oscar Pastri. And Maxstappen’s got the inside line. My word, that is a fast corner to try that move. Hamilton goes off the road, but Stappen gains the place. And that could have been even more spectacular than it was. This is enormous speed. Max Stapen risking it to the inside. That is crazy close for a corner of that speed. lighting it up as he comes in. He hits his marks and every second he’s going to be useful here. Brilliant standard in the pit lane today between McLaren and Ferrari. Box to overtake this lap. Box to overtake llair and he does the opposite of the man coming into the pits who is Shalair in the scarlet Ferrari. So Ferrari react. They take the fate from McLaren. Is it going to be as good a stop? It certainly is. That is a welloiled machine now down in the garage. So Oscar LLC is going to be four or five seconds ahead of our pit window. I don’t really care about Llair, but he’s got the best chance to try and feel that. Whoa, that’s late on the brakes at Kimmy Antonelli. And he gets past Carlos signs. Pastries in. Pastry comes in. Doesn’t care about the Ferrari. He cares about Lando Norris. He leaves the pits and the gap is 12 seconds between the top two in the World Championship. Pastry is on fire here. He’s screaming up to the back of the Ferrari. Can he get by? And how quickly can he get by? It’s a great run here. He’s got so much more grip out of the 14th and final corner. The Australian driver trying to dive past Charlotte Shalair who hugs the inside line and Pastry will just try and turn it into a grip battle. He’s got more of it. He’s got more speed. He absolutely sails by. It’s going to be another McLaren one two. The Ferrari couldn’t fight. This is so incredibly frustrating. We’ve lost all competitiveness. You just had to listen to me. I will have found a different way of managing those issues. Now, now it’s just undrivable. Undrivable. It’s a miracle. If we finish on the podium, how far does that radio message go? All the way off the screen. Russell. Oh, that’s super late on the brakes from Russell who tucks back in. And I turn the volume down. That was not even breaking. I committed. It’s clearly not allowed. Keep cool, mate. You you’ll get it. Take two. One lap later and there’s the late move. Pinched to the apex. Russell gets by. Shlair will try the up and under. That was real brinkmanship between the pair of them. But Russell gets by and he’s got DRS to take third position in the Grand Prix. The first one I thought was acceptable fromlair. I have to say that one was just massive moving under braking just shutting the door and and Russell is committed at this point and it’s difficult to change your line because you’re on the limit of grip. Use the penalty on me. The gap is 6/10 of a second. That will decrease all the while. The Grand Prix victory on the line. Pastri shaping for it. Going late, locking up and he avoids his teammate. But did that moment cost him the Grand Prix win? Oh, it’s late. And they are so close, aren’t they? Look at this on board. Nearly the front wing ripped off. They got away with it. Remember how we go racing? Same reminder, Oscar. The gap in the world championship will be nine points between the Papaya pair for the 200th time in Formula 1. McLaren win. Lando Norris wins the Hungarian Grand Prix by 610 of a second. A brilliant performance from both of them, but the gap is under 10 points. And it’s Norris punching the air, victorious for the first time in Budapest. Relief on the pit wall for Zack Brown and Andreas Stella. George Russell takes a podium. It’s a great result for him. Andlair has disappeared behind. Brilliant battling out front. It went all the way to the end like we suspected it would, but today it has been resolved in Lando Norris’s favor. We go into the summer break with nine between the pair of them. [Applause]
Catch up on the most intense and dramatic moments from the final race before summer break, as the drivers’ championship fight is shaken up once more.
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