2025 Hungarian Grand Prix

Lando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix, 0.7sec ahead of his chasing McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri, the pair 20sec clear of the third place Mercedes of George Russell.

Sounds routine enough, doesn’t it? Standard 2025 season fare.

But it wasn’t, not in the way it took shape. There was a Ferrari on pole, for one thing. That could be explained away by the sudden change in wind strength and direction between Q2 – when the McLarens were 0.5sec clear – and Q3. The resultant tailwinds and crosswinds played havoc with the McLarens, which suddenly lost 0.5sec, but not so much Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari, which found 0.1sec to sit itself on pole ahead of Piastri, Norris and Russell.