F1: Lando Norris won in Hungary and did McLaren choose his candidate for the title?

The Woking team chose two different strategies for its pilots and the great disadvantaged was Oscar Piastri, who is still as leader of the World Cup, but with less light.

Title 2025 of Formula 1 will be settled between the two McLaren pilots, there is no other. The 76th World Cup season will crown a new monarch that will be added to the list and will do it with a Woking team. There is no other candidate, because Max Verstappen, the third, is 97 points. From the English Team it only remains to be managed how the battle of its pupils, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris will be. The first Papaya rule is that they cannot be collided, something that Zak Brown, the CEO of the brand, repeated before the AM850 microphone before starting the Hungary GP, 14th date of the World Cup. Then there is freedom. But what would happen if the team leaned for one of the two with such important details as strategies? Some of that happened in Hungaroring, where Norris stayed with the success about Piastri and went on vacation enjoying having brought the gap to just nine units.

Melbourne’s pilot was the winner in the classification: he stayed with the second drawer, against the third of Lando. In the game, Charles Leclerc went ahead from the pole, Norris tried to change the trajectory to beat Piastri, but the Australian, alive and bug as he is, squeezed it. The English lost two places and fell to fifth place. The Woking team decided two different strategies and everything broke. Piastri stopped in Tour 18 and changed his middle tires for the hard. Norris stretched the arrest until turn 31 and was the only one. Piastri quickly understood the movement made by the English team with the English pilot.

The World Cup leader was in front, but with a very extensive race section to finish. Anyway, on the radio, he told the team that if Lando did not stop again (something that was sung), he did not want to stop either and clarified that his rival was not Leclerc, but Norris. However, the Australian was called Boxes back in Tour 46 and returned third. He first surpassed Charles Leclerc alicoid and went to Norris’s hunt. With much more speed, he went on the final turns and even had to block in the braking of the first curve in the penultimate turn so as not to take his partner and break that Papaya rule

Pastri’s face when getting out of MCL39 was the faithful reflection of the situation he had just lived, but, surely, the reading he will have made of the next ten dates that will be played after the holidays. When declaring, Melbourne preferred caution, not kicking the board. “I pushed everything I could, seen that I had to advance in the first curve and knew it was going to be difficult, because advancing is not easy here. I tried a couple of things to risk, but this time it did not fall from us,” he said. And regarding the strategy, he opted for a “we will analyze it later.”

“I am dead, it was very hard, we did not plan a stop, but after the first round, it was our only option to return to the struggle for victory,” said Norris, the happiest inside McLaren. “It was hard, with Oscar reaching the last part. It is a great reward, the perfect result,” added the Britishwho will go on vacation with the pleasure of having achieved his fifth victory in the season and having reduced the light with Pastri to nine points. And with the feeling that the team chose him in the battle for 1.