Lando Norris has taken the chequered flag to win the Hungarian Grand Prix, holding off teammate Oscar Piastri in a nail-biting finish.

Norris suffered a horror start to the race as he slipped down to fifth place, but a decision to go with a one-stop strategy paid off for the British driver as he secured his fifth win of the season.

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Piastri hunted his teammate down in the final laps but couldn’t get past him, missing out on the top spot on the podium by just 0.7 seconds.

Norris, 25, has now cut Piastri’s world championship lead to just nine points.

Aussie driver Piastri pitted early in an attempt to undercut pole-sitter Charles Leclerc, but the strategy left him with a mountain of work to do late and had fans watching on questioning if McLaren had favoured Norris.

“I don’t know if trying to undercut Leclerc was the right call in the end but we can go through that after,” Piastri said.

Behind the McLaren duo it was Mercedes’ George Russell who secured the final spot on the podium with Ferrari’s Leclerc falling down to fourth.

The Ferrari driver was left furious with his own team after his race was ruined by a change in setup to the car.

Piastri must also have been left with some anger towards his own team after his race strategy left him behind his teammate on the Hungaroring track — a circuit notorious for being difficult to overtake on.

Piastri locked up heading into the opening turn on the final lap as he lunged down the inside of his championship rival before being forced to abandon the move at the last second, narrowly avoiding wiping Norris out.

F1 guru Martin Brundle said after the race he understood why Piastri would have been frustrated by his team’s tactical decisions.

“Oscar will be seething with that,” Brundle said.

“Remember the two radio calls. Pit to undercut Leclerc. They were busy strategising to beat Leclerc. Norris didn’t have that problem as he was out of the picture and came in 13 laps later and changed strategy.

“The great irony is by not being in that fight with the Ferrari at the front they had more freedom and took it.

“But he still had to deliver that pace for that amount of time on those tyres.

“Oscar will be asking why didn’t we do that. Why have we two stopped and been beaten by our teammate who one-stopped?”

Fans watching on were also not happy with many believing the team had once again shown favouritism towards the British driver.

One wrote on X: “How does it make sense to give lando a different and superior strategy to his teammate Oscar Piastri whom is his only rival for the WDC? Scandalous conduct by Zac brown and McLaren.”

A second added: “Norris got gifted this win – not sure how McLaren can justify giving a preferential strategy to someone who is behind in the championship, qualified behind and lost positions. For absolute shame.”

Another posted: “Its truly shocking how Norris can constantly qualify behind Oscar and be behind him during most parts of the race and still gets the better strategy for the win.

“Like Mclaren what is going on?”

Norris said he was looking forward to “more of the same” thrilling wheel-to-wheel duels with Piastri as they scrap for the drivers’ championship this year.

“I’m dead!” said Norris.

“It was tough, we weren’t really planning on a one-stop at the beginning, but after the first lap it was kind of our only option to get back into things.

“It was tough in the final stint, with Oscar catching. I was pushing flat out, you know, so my voice has gone a little bit!”

Piastri conceded his team was making a gamble either way.

“I pushed as hard as I could. I saw Lando going for a one (stop) so I knew I was going to have to overtake on track, which is easier said then done around here,” he said.

“I tried a few things, but it was a gamble either way and, unfortunately, we were just on the other side of it.”

Piastri questioned his team’s decision to try to ‘undercut’ pole sitter and early leader Charles Leclerc of Ferrari in the early stages of the race.

“I’m not sure that was the right call in the end,” he said on radio.

It wasn’t.

McLaren boss Zak Brown said everyone in the team will “sleep well tonight”.

Piastri may not feel the same way.

The outcome was McLaren’s fourth consecutive 1-2 in succession and Norris’s fifth win this year and ninth of his career.

McLaren now lead Ferrari by 299 points in the constructors’ championship ahead of the final 10 races of the season starting at the Dutch Grand Prix on August 31.