FACTS AND STATS: Closest finish of 2025 earns McLaren their 200th win

Tense was not the word as Oscar Piastri hunted down team mate Lando Norris in the closing stages of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Ultimately Norris held his nerve to win by barely half a second and give McLaren a double century of GP victories. But there were plenty more fascinating figures further down the Budapest grid as well…

• This race saw the closest winning margin in a green-flag finish in 2025 at 0.698s.

• McLaren scored their fourth consecutive one-two finish for only the second time in their history (a feat they previously achieved with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in 1988).

• McLaren today won their 200th world championship Grand Prix, making them only the second team to do so in F1 history after Ferrari.

• It was McLaren’s 13th Hungaroring victory (six more than any other constructor).

• Race winner Norris finished second in the 2023 and 2024 Hungarian Grands Prix.

• Norris’ 1.9 second pit stop today was provisionally the fastest pit stop of the 2025 season to date.

• McLaren finished one-two in Hungary for the second consecutive season.

• Piastri finished second. Last season he passed Norris for victory on lap 68 of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

• Piastri now has eight wins and eight second places in his F1 career.

• George Russell’s P3 for Mercedes was his sixth podium finish of the season.

• Mercedes-Benz power units locked out the Hungaroring podium for the second year in a row.

• With Charles Leclerc taking P4 for Ferrari, it meant the polesitter failed to win in Hungary for the fifth consecutive year.

• Leclerc has only won one of his last 16 starts from pole (Monaco 2024).

• Leclerc had only led 20 laps all season before today.

• Fernando Alonso’s P5 was Aston Martin’s best result of the 2025 season.

• Alonso has scored points in 13 of the last 14 Hungarian Grands Prix.

• Gabriel Bortoleto’s P6 for Kick Sauber was his third points finish in the last four Grands Prix.

• It was Sauber’s best Hungaroring result since Nick Heidfeld finished third in 2007.

• Lance Stroll took P7 for Aston Martin and has finished seventh twice in the last three Grands Prix.

• Liam Lawson’s Racing Bulls was the highest-finishing Red Bull-owned car with P8.

• Lawson finished eighth for a second consecutive Grand Prix.

• World Champion Max Verstappen finished P9 for Red Bull, 1m 12s behind the race winner.

• Verstappen has not finished on the podium at the last four Grands Prix.

• Kimi Antonelli’s P10 in the Mercedes was only his second points finish in the last eight Grands Prix.

• In the second Racing Bulls, Isack Hadjar finished in P11. His only points in the last five race weekends came in the Belgium Sprint.

• Lewis Hamilton’s P12 for Ferrari was his worst Hungaroring result for 15 years.

• Hamilton finished in the same position he started.

• Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg took P13 and has not scored at the Hungaroring since 2016.

• Alpine’s Franco Colapinto in P17 and Pierre Gasly in P18 were the two last classified finishers.

• Oliver Bearman’s DNF for Haas was the only retirement in the last two Grands Prix.