{"id":23347,"date":"2025-08-09T05:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mclaren-split-strategies-in-hungary-give-norris-victory-over-piastri\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:18:06","slug":"mclaren-split-strategies-in-hungary-give-norris-victory-over-piastri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/mclaren-split-strategies-in-hungary-give-norris-victory-over-piastri\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren: Split Strategies in Hungary Give Norris Victory Over Piastri"},"content":{"rendered":"

McLaren Dominates Hungarian Grand Prix: Norris Beats Piastri in a Strategic Race<\/h2>\n\nBUDAPEST, Hungary \u2013 McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown, upon leaving his team’s motorhome, encountered a crowd of journalists eager for statements from team principal Andrea Stella. Just an hour earlier, the fight for victory between McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had nearly culminated in a collision on the penultimate lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix, raising tension both in the pit wall and in the stands.\n\n\n
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“Just in case anyone didn’t notice,” Brown commented to reporters, “… it was a great race!”<\/p>\n\nZak Brown<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFollowing the usual dynamic at McLaren, Brown provided the headline, while Stella offered a more detailed analysis of Norris’ victory over Piastri, highlighting McLaren’s commitment to allowing its drivers to compete freely. In such a close contest, strategy was key. Norris’ victory was based on a one-stop strategy, considered unconventional, while Piastri, seemingly at a disadvantage, opted for a two-stop strategy that initially looked like the most favorable.\n\n\n

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“You know, when you lose a race by such a small margin, it’s painful, but it was certainly entertaining from the outside,” Piastri declared. “It was entertaining from the inside too, a pretty fun race, but obviously, when you’re on the losing side of that battle, it’s a bit difficult.”<\/p>\n\nOscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFor Norris, the emotions were different. After a bad start, his chances of victory seemed slim, but as his alternative strategy unfolded, confidence grew.\n\n\n

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“I didn’t really think it would work for most of that second stint,” Norris said. “But with every lap, I gained more confidence that I would be closer. So yeah, it was definitely rewarding.”<\/p>\n\nLando Norris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe battle between the McLaren drivers was further complicated by the presence of Charles Leclerc, who started from pole position. The Ferrari driver led at the first corner and maintained the pace to keep Piastri at bay, while Norris fell to fifth place on the first lap before recovering to fourth place on lap 3.\n\nMcLaren had considered the possibility of a single stop before the race, but favored a two-stop strategy. By initiating pit stops on lap 18 and committing to two stops for Piastri, there was the possibility that fresh tires would offer an advantage to overtake Leclerc and take the lead.\n\n“Our base strategy today was a two-stop strategy,” explained Stella. “We didn’t necessarily believe that a one-stop was possible, so with Oscar we tried a good two-stop strategy, trying to overtake Leclerc at the first stop. Then we tried to extend [the duration of the second stint] with the second stop to have a performance difference from the tires to be able to overtake Leclerc, and this worked.”\n\nPiastri mentioned that he was offered a one-stop strategy in the first stint, but given his battles with Leclerc, he doubted that this would help his situation.\n\n\n

\"Lando<\/figure>\n\n\nLando Norris beat his McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, by just 0.698 seconds in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/em>\n\n“We talked a bit about it before the race, so it wasn’t completely ruled out,” Piastri said about a pit stop. “In the race I was asked about it, but it’s very difficult to know from the cockpit what’s best to do. When you’re the back car [like Norris], your risk-reward ratio is always very different. So, yeah, there’s always that.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McLaren Dominates Hungarian Grand Prix: Norris Beats Piastri in a Strategic Race BUDAPEST, Hungary \u2013 McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown, upon leaving his team’s motorhome, encountered a crowd of journalists eager for statements from team principal Andrea Stella. Just an hour earlier, the fight for victory between McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6554,436,177,176],"class_list":{"0":"post-23347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-hungarian-grand-prix","9":"tag-lando-norris","10":"tag-mclaren","11":"tag-oscar-piastri"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}