F1: Lando Norris aims to take everything from the Hungary GP

The Englishman was the fastest in the two training of the 14th date of the World Cup, ahead of his partner Oscar Piastri. The fight in McLaren takes temperature.

These days, a series of questions involves Formula 1. Who will be champion, Oscar Piastri or Lando Norris? When will McLaren champion of builders? Which of the two McLaren will earn more races in the remainder of the year? And the one that generates the most: when will the internal exploit in the woking team? All those consumers of the World Cup that comb gray hair know that there is no chance that the Norris-Piartri relationship ends well. There is no form, you can’t. Two roosters in the same chicken coop, does not end well. There are examples envelope in the history of the highest category. A Senna-Prost will not happen, that was already the suggestion, probably. But it is clear that in Team Papaya only the spark is missing, the gunpowder is already watered by the box. There is a title at play, the first for either. Everything is latent and in the training of the Hungary GP the phosphorus was scraped in the scraper when they were on the edge of the crash. What will have happened inside doors?

In Hungaroring, Norris was the fastest of the day, with 291 thousandths of advantage over Piastri, the World Cup leader with 16 points ahead. The rest? On another planet. The English led the two batches of trials and sent the clear message: after being defeated in Belgium by the Australian, he wants to win in Budapest and put doubts the leader just before the holidays. It is clear that it is not easy to enter Piastri. The tournament pointer is stone, rough, hard, does not show emotions and fast, very fast. Norris, on the other hand, is permeable, prone to error and psychologically more weak. But when Lando is illuminated, it flies. Those two styles will resolve the 2025 World Cup.

Now, When will everything explode? In Canada, Norris unusually crashed into Piastri. It was an error of English and assumed it. His request for instant apologies to the team and his partner mitigated the tremor. Piastri had apologized like this? Hmm. The Australian knows that the psychological battle will win it by a field. After that, Silverstone arrived, where a rare sanction for the Australian (he stopped before the resumption after the security car) left him behind Lando. Oscar was made a fury and even suggested that it was a matter of nationalities, an Englishman, in the career of England and in a category born and sorned in England … gunpowder and more gunpowder.

And yes, in Hungary the phosphorus was scraped. On the closure of the second batch, Piastri marched in the Vuelta launched by the track and met Norris, who left boxes. The tremendous blocked of English avoided the blow that, there, would have caused the absolute fire. Some scream will have been in the McLaren camp. The work of Andrea Stella, the team director, will be key to appease the waters. The background does not help it. A year ago, just in Hungary, Piastri achieved his first F1 victory after an team orders novel that collided with Norris’s tantrums. Finally, the English lifted and Oscar won. Again Hungary can mark an internal cut, because Woking pupils fight for the title, the holidays are coming and the one who takes the triumph of Hungaroring will be strengthened for the break.

And the rest?

Charles Leclerc was again the closest to the McLaren. The Monegasco comes from completing the Belgium podium and was third in the Hungarian essays. Behind, the surprise: the Aston Martin. Lance Stroll was fourth and Fernando Alonso, fifth. Very remarkable about Spanish, who did not participate in the first session (Felipe Drugovich turned) for the pain he suffers on his back. With 44 years recently, the Asturian continues to show his talent.

The disappointment was Max Verstappen. A fact: He lost with Yuki Tsunoda! The Japanese was ninth and can go out to celebrate that, finally, even once, it was ahead of the tetrampion. And the Dutch? Far away and stirring towels. As? Yes, someone forgot a towel of RB21 and Max threw it in the middle of the track. The position: 14th, complaining sourly the balance (or unbalance) of his car. Well (like almost all year) Isack Hadjar (eighth) and very bad Williams, with Carlos Sainz in the 16th place and Alex Albon, 18º.

This Saturday the third batch of training will be played and, then, the classification for Sunday’s race, day for which rain is announced in the morning.