McLaren is first staff to supply two new winners in a season since 2001 · RaceFans

System 1 has a brand new grand prix winner for the second time this yr as Oscar Piastri adopted his staff mate Lando Norris, who scored his breakthrough triumph two months in the past in Miami.

Piastri hasn’t needed to wait something like so long as his staff mate did. Norris needed to wait 110 grands prix to get his first win; Piastri simply 35. 4 drivers on the grid at this time had shorter waits for his or her first wins: Charles Leclerc (34), Fernando Alonso (30), Max Verstappen (24) and Lewis Hamilton (six).

The final time two staff mates scored their first grand prix wins in the identical season was all the way in which again in 2001. Alonso made his debut that yr and fellow rookie Juan Pablo Montoya scored his first win for Williams, whereas his staff mate Ralf Schumacher did the identical.

The consequence means each McLaren drivers are one-time grand prix winners, which can also be the case for Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly.

Piastri is the one hundred and fifteenth driver to win a spherical of the world championship and the fifth to return from Australia, becoming a member of world champions Jack Brabham and Alan Jones, his supervisor Mark Webber and rival Daniel Ricciardo.

With Piastri’s win, McLaren’s 5 most up-to-date victories had been all scored by totally different drivers, together with Lewis Hamilton who joined his successors at his authentic staff on the rostrum:

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Max Verstappen did not win for the third race in a row. That is the primary time he’s gone three races with out successful since Hamilton’s trio throughout the Brazil, Qatar and Saudi Arabia rounds late in 2021.

Piastri is Australia’s fifth grand prix winner

Piastri is the seventh totally different winner this yr, essentially the most since 2012, when there have been eight. The one driver from the 4 race-winning groups but to win a race is Sergio Perez.

4 totally different drivers have gained the final 4 races, essentially the most since 2021. That yr Ricciardo, Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Verstappen gained at Monza, Sochi, Istanbul and the Circuit of the Americas respectively.

Lando Norris claimed pole place for the third time in a grand prix and fifth time in complete together with dash races. Nonetheless, he as soon as once more failed to steer on the finish of lap one, as Piastri beat him to the primary nook. His tally of three grand prix pole positions places him degree with Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo, in addition to Jose Froilan Gonzalez, Tony Brooks, Dan Gurney, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Jody Scheckter, Elio de Angelis and Teo Fabi.

Norris led McLaren of their first entrance row lock-out because the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix. They’re the third totally different staff to lock out the entrance row of the grid this yr together with Purple Bull and Mercedes. The final time three totally different groups did this was in 2018: Purple Bull and Mercedes once more, together with Ferrari.

McLaren’s qualifying triumph ended Mercedes’ run of consecutive pole positions within the Hungarian Grand Prix. Regardless of their poor outcomes over the past two seasons, they took pole on the Hungaroring 4 years operating from 2020 to 2023.

George Russell claimed the quickest lap for the eighth time in his profession. He now has as many as James Hunt, Gilles Villeneuve, Ralf Schumacher and Jenson Button. His staff mate Hamilton, in the meantime, achieved his 2 hundredth podium end.

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