Lewis Hamilton takes third place as defending champion Max Verstappen faces investigation after collision
A furious Lando Norris was forced to give up the second Formula One victory of his career after he followed a McLaren team order to allow Oscar Piastri to win a controversial Hungarian Grand Prix.
A mediocre getaway from pole position at the Hungaroring saw Norris drop behind teammate Piastri.
But he was handed an apparent lifeline by McLaren when they pulled him in for his second tyre change two laps earlier than his teammate.
The undercut propelled Norris into the lead, and he held a five-second advantage over Piastri.
However, the Englishman faced a barrage of orders from his race engineer, Will Joseph, to give the place back to Piastri despite his pursuit of Max Verstappen for the world championship.
And across the line as a Grand Prix winner!
"I know you'll do the right thing," Norris was told with 14 laps to go after the team repeated that they wanted Piastri to win. "Well you should have pitted him first," he replied.
"Lando, he can't catch you up. You've proved your point," the Briton was told when he moved six seconds clear with six laps remaining.
Norris slowed down on the main straight with three laps left to allow Piastri to take the lead.
“You don’t need to say anything,” he said over the radio. Norris finished one place clear of Lewis Hamilton, with Charles Leclerc fourth and Verstappen fifth.
Hamilton collided with Verstappen on lap 63 of 70 as they duelled for third place with Mercedes accusing the Dutchman of “arriving out of control”. The incident was under investigation by race officials.
Afterwards, Piastri said: "This is very, very special. This is really the day I dreamt of as a kid, standing on the top step of an F1 podium. Thank you to the team for an amazing effort and an amazing car. It's a hell of a lot of fun racing with McLaren so I can't thank them enough.
"The car is a beast at the moment. It's fast in every condition and today we had it under control completely and it's amazing feeling just to be able to manage a race like that with both cars and secure a one-two."
Norris said: "An amazing day for us as a team and that's the main thing. I'm so happy – it's been and amazing journey to get to achieving this on merit and that's exactly what we did today.
"We did it in style as well so. Congratulations [to Piastri], it was coming at some point and he deserved it today. The team asked me to let him through and I did it, so that's it."
