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Norris Repeats Hungarian Grand Prix Victory in F1

From El Nacional · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Lando Norris of McLaren won the Hungarian Grand Prix, repeating his victory from the previous year.
  • Max Verstappen of Red Bull finished second, and Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes took third place.
  • The race was the last before the Formula One summer break, with the season resuming in late August.

Lando Norris secured his second consecutive victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, holding off a strong challenge to win the Formula One race held at the Hungaroring circuit near Budapest. The McLaren driver started from pole position and converted it into his twelfth career win, and first of the current season.

Defending world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull finished second, with Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli completing the podium in third. The Ferrari duo of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Other notable performances included Franco Colapinto in fifteenth and Sergio Pérez, who retired from the race.

Spanish drivers Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz finished fourteenth and eighteenth, respectively. The race marked the final event before the Formula One summer break, which concludes before the last weekend of August when the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort will kick off the second half of the season.

Antonelli extended his lead in the World Championship standings, now holding a 50-point advantage over Hamilton and 59 points over Russell.

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Originally published by El Nacional in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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