Overview

• Oscar Piastri overtook Lando Norris on the first green-flag lap after an 80-minute rain delay and led flawlessly on medium tyres to win by 3.4 seconds.
• The Queensland driver’s sixth victory of the season increased his championship advantage over Norris to 16 points ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.
• Norris, who began from pole, blamed wet slipstream effects and his own lock-ups rather than any battery issue and said he will review his start, tyre choices and race errors.
• Team principal Andrea Stella insisted that the battery deployment anomaly affected both McLarens equally and had no decisive impact on the race.
• Piastri admitted he felt “nervous” managing medium tyres under Norris’s hard-tyre chase and matched Daniel Ricciardo’s eight career wins in fewer starts.