Piastri leads Hungarian GP, then DNFs after swearing at McLaren over botched strategy

Piastri leads Hungarian GP, then DNFs after swearing at McLaren over botched strategy

Piastri overtook polesitter Norris on lap one and led until McLaren's pit strategy dropped him behind a backmarker. He told his crew: "Mate, just don't fucking talk to me now." A gearbox failure ended his race with 14 laps left. He later said: "Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong did." Norris won McLaren's first victory of 2026.

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