Formula 1 has a new grand prix winner for the second time this year as Oscar Piastri followed his team mate Lando Norris, who scored his breakthrough triumph two months ago in Miami.
Piastri hasn’t had to wait anything like as long as his team mate did. Norris had to wait 110 grands prix to get his first win; Piastri just 35. Four drivers on the grid today had shorter waits for their first wins: Charles Leclerc (34), Fernando Alonso (30), Max Verstappen (24) and Lewis Hamilton (six).The last time two team mates scored their first grand prix wins in the same season was all the way back in 2001. Alonso made his debut that year and fellow rookie Juan Pablo Montoya scored his first win for Williams, while his team mate Ralf Schumacher did the same.
The result means both McLaren drivers are one-time grand prix winners, which is also the case for Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly.
Piastri is the 115th driver to win a round of the world championship and the fifth to come from Australia, joining world champions Jack Brabham and Alan Jones, his manager Mark Webber and rival Daniel Ricciardo.
With Piastri’s win, McLaren’s five most recent victories were all scored by different drivers, including Lewis Hamilton who joined his successors at his original team on the podium:
| Year | Race | Track | Driver |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | United States Grand Prix | Circuit of the Americas | Lewis Hamilton |
| 2012 | Brazilian Grand Prix | Interlagos | Jenson Button |
| 2021 | Italian Grand Prix | Monza | Daniel Ricciardo |
| 2024 | Miami Grand Prix | Miami International Autodrome | Lando Norris |
| 2024 | Hungarian Grand Prix | Hungaroring | Oscar Piastri |
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Max Verstappen failed to win for the third race in a row. This is the first time he’s gone three races without winning since Hamilton’s trio across the Brazil, Qatar and Saudi Arabia rounds late in 2021.
Four different drivers have won the last four races, the most since 2021. That year Ricciardo, Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Verstappen won at Monza, Sochi, Istanbul and the Circuit of the Americas respectively.
Lando Norris claimed pole position for the third time in a grand prix and fifth time in total including sprint races. However, he once again failed to lead at the end of lap one, as Piastri beat him to the first corner. His tally of three grand prix pole positions puts him level with Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo, as well as Jose Froilan Gonzalez, Tony Brooks, Dan Gurney, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Jody Scheckter, Elio de Angelis and Teo Fabi.
Norris led McLaren in their first front row lock-out since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix. They are the third different team to lock out the front row of the grid this year along with Red Bull and Mercedes. The last time three different teams did this was in 2018: Red Bull and Mercedes again, along with Ferrari.
McLaren’s qualifying triumph ended Mercedes’ run of consecutive pole positions in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Despite their poor results over the last two seasons, they took pole at the Hungaroring four years running from 2020 to 2023.
George Russell claimed the fastest lap for the eighth time in his career. He now has as many as James Hunt, Gilles Villeneuve, Ralf Schumacher and Jenson Button. His team mate Hamilton, meanwhile, achieved his 200th podium finish.
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Have you spotted any other interesting stats and facts from the Hungarian Grand Prix? Share them in the comments.
2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
- McLaren team orders “a new situation we’re inexperienced at handling” – Piastri
- Verstappen dismisses critics of “vocal” radio messages and late-night simracing
- Norris’ former McLaren team mates say he was right to give up win
- Mercedes surprised Hamilton’s car was “completely unscathed” in Verstappen clash
- McLaren is first team to produce two new winners in a season since 2001
Jere (@jerejj)
24th July 2024, 17:47
McLaren’s first 1-2 at Hungaroring since 1999, third on the same circuit, & 63rd overall in F1.
Oscar Piastri became the sixth different driver to achieve his maiden Grand Prix victory at Hungaroring, following Damon Hill, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Heikki Kovalainen, & Esteban Ocon.
Pierre Gasly retired from the Hungarian GP for the second season running & like in 2020, he was the only non-finisher.
Fernando Alonso finished as the last driver on the lead lap for the first time this season, with Daniel Ricciardo being the highest-finishing lapped driver for the second consecutive race.
Guanyu Zhou finished last for the fifth time this season, following the Saudi Arabian, Monaco, Canadian, & British GPs.
As a side note, Ralf Schumacher’s & Juan-Pablo Montoya’s maiden victories coincidently occurred in Italy.
Finally, we’ll probably have to wait a little while before the next new winner, i.e., the 116th in F1 history, with Lance Stroll being the best-positioned average car performance level-wise.
Simon
24th July 2024, 20:41
Yet again, and again until the end of time, no credit for original source…
Tommy C (@tommy-c)
25th July 2024, 4:03
To be fair, several of these stats could be recalled from the top of one’s head such as the maiden victories in Hungary or the Williams drivers winning in Italy.
EffWunFan (@cairnsfella)
26th July 2024, 9:12
Does this not apply ‘potentially’ to the original article as well?
MichaelN
24th July 2024, 23:05
Magnussen is leaving at the end of the season with a 2nd as his best, while Stroll and Albon have a 3rd on their resume. Finally Hülkenberg and Tsunoda have a 4th place as their best result. None of these scream ‘GP winner!’ but stranger things have happened in F1.
It’s actually surprising how many race winners there are now, and how few races they’ve won in total. Piastri, Norris, Ocon, Gasly, and Russell have a combined six wins between the five of them. Sainz has three, and Leclerc and Pérez have six each. Then there’s the ‘old guard’ with Ricciardo on eight and Bottas on ten. It’s been slim pickings behind Hamilton (104) and Verstappen (61), and before that Vettel (53).
Red Andy (@red-andy)
24th July 2024, 18:12
13 drivers in the current field are now race winners (65%) – must be one of if not the highest proportions of all time.
matt90
24th July 2024, 18:14
At the next race there will be 13 race winners on the grid. I don’t know how many times this has happened or been surpassed previously, but I think the record is 15 from 2 races in 1978.
Tjitse Wolf
25th July 2024, 10:43
Sorry for reporting the comment, did not intend.
Actually wanted to react, with the following:|
checked the 15, actually came out on 16, but one of them must be in a later race not featuring one of the others if so, i’d guess. Have not checked per race yet.
Alan Jones – Jacques Laffite – Jacky Ickx – Jody Scheckter – Vittorio Brambilla – Clay Regazzoni – Emerson Fittipaldi – Gilles Villeneuve – Carlos Reutemann – Jochen Mass – James Hunt – Ronnie Peterson – Mario Andretti – Patrick Depallier – John Watson – Niki Lauda.
stefano (@alfa145)
24th July 2024, 18:47
would you look at that beauty of a car
David
24th July 2024, 20:38
loved those Williams cars with the white blue liveries in early two thousands!
Mr A
25th July 2024, 9:51
Weak chassis and a monster engine if some are to be believed.
I have an opinion
24th July 2024, 20:43
Only the second time Advance Australia Fair & God Save the King / Queen have been played on the podium together. Advance Australia Fair & Land der Berge, Land am Strome have been played together 16 times.
frood19 (@frood19)
24th July 2024, 21:24
If they did anthems back in the day then surely we would have heard that combo for Alan Jones and Williams, who had a few wins (and a title) together.
Jungle
25th July 2024, 0:38
After one of his race wins not sure if it was his first, AJ said they didn’t have the Australian national anthem so they played “happy birthday” instead!
bernasaurus (@bernasaurus)
25th July 2024, 14:34
Sadly I don’t believe there is any footage of this. It was on a trumpet apparently. I personally wouldn’t have minded. There is certainly a worse one –
Jungle
26th July 2024, 0:41
On a trumpet was it? lol. For some reason I’m thinking of the Benny Hill music. But that might be played on a sax….
I have an opinion
25th July 2024, 12:17
Advance Australia Fair has not always been Australia’s national anthem. It was briefly in the early seventies, prior to Alan Jones’ first win with Shadow in Austria in 1977 (so God Save the Queen would have been correct and more appropriate than the Happy Birthday that was played for him). It was not restored until 1984, by which time AJ was racing for Haas and no longer winning.
paulgilb (@paulgilb)
24th July 2024, 22:37
63rd time McLaren have locked out the front row – they move ahead of Williams into outright 3rd place.
3rd consecutive Hungarian GP in which an Englishman has taken pole by less than 0.05s.
Qualifying was the second successive competitive session at the Hungaroring where the Alpines were the worst two performers.
First GP to take place on 21 July since France 2002, another race in which a McLaren driver lost the lead in the final 6 laps.
First GP victory by a driver born in the 2000s.
First GP to be won by a driver who had not been born when another driver in the same race made his F1 debut.
McLaren’s two most recent front-row lock-outs have seen the driver starting 2nd win.
The two most recent winners are the oldest and youngest F1 winners this century.
Thanks to statsf1 and the official F1 site for some of these.
paulgilb (@paulgilb)
24th July 2024, 22:50
Found something else thanks to statsf1: Piastri’s 81 is the highest-numbered car to win since Ascari won with #101 in Germany 1952 (Lee Wallard and Troy Ruttman in the Indy 500 are the only others higher than 81).
Thanks to gprejects: the car numbers of the 6 first-time winners in Hungary are an ascending sequence (0, 8, 12, 23, 31, 81).
Daniel
24th July 2024, 23:10
Verstappen was much younger when he won Spain 2016 (18yo) than Piastri was when he won Hungary 2024 (23yo),
paulgilb (@paulgilb)
25th July 2024, 18:06
Oops!
MichaelN
24th July 2024, 23:15
The 1990s have been exceptionally poor for winning drivers. Largely thanks to Hamilton and Vettel from the mid-1980s gobbling up over 150 wins between the two of them.
There’s Leclerc (1997) and Pérez (1990) with six, Sainz (1994) with three wins, Russell (1998) with two, Ocon and Gasly (1996) with one win each, and now Norris (1999) with one. Verstappen (1997) sort of ‘saves’ the decade with his 61 wins.
Jungle
25th July 2024, 0:41
Best chance for another new driver would be to put Yuki in the Red Bull after the summer break…
cdfemke (@cdfemke)
25th July 2024, 8:20
“Produce” is the correct wording. It was manufactured . They chose commercial value and PR over sport
I can’t imagine how it would feel for norris if he is 5 points short for the WDC at the end of the season…
Mr A
25th July 2024, 9:50
Agreed, they’ll look right w*nkers
hje
25th July 2024, 8:30
Wait, wasn’t Mclaren only the second team in history, when both drivers got their maiden victory in the same season? I’ve tried to find something similiar in the past, and apparently Williams in 2001 was the very first team to achieve that. Am I right?
Mindaugas Kaletka
25th July 2024, 9:06
F3 Tsolov
F2 Antonelli
F1 Piastri
Got their maiden wins in Hungary (not counting sprint races)
José Lopes da Silva
25th July 2024, 9:33
Both Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly have Portuguese girlfriends.
Margarida Corceiro’s boyfriend started from pole, while Francisca Cerqueira Gomes’ boyfriend started from last.