Oscar Piastri wins first Grand Prix of his F1 career by pipping McLaren team-mate Lando Norris in Hungary, after Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen collide

Lando Norris yielded to team orders in Hungary three laps from the end to allow his McLaren garage-mate Oscar Piastri to win his first race – and one of the most controversial in the team's history.

Amid heated scenes, Norris was repeatedly ordered to let his McLaren team-mate, 23-year-old Piastri pass. Coded messages were relayed. And overt ones. And conflicting ones.

It was a test of his ruthlessness. Would he budge? Should he budge, after the order of the pair's second pit stops had handed him the lead? He had emerged from the pits 3.3 sec ahead when the first instructions to 're-establish the order' came over his radio. He was, however, now the faster of the pair and by some way. He pulled out a lead of over five seconds.

He also had a world championship to think about – when will that penny ever drop at McLaren? He was the one who started the race 84 points behind Verstappen; not 131 back like Piastri. And he was told at the time of the pivotal stop that it was timed to cover off Lewis Hamilton.

So, should he change position?

As it looked likely he wouldn't concede, he was ordered to by race engineer Will Jeffrey to do so. 'You can't win a world championship on your own,' he was told. 'The only way is to win it as a team.'

'You have made your point,' he was told as he kept up his runaway charge.

But with three laps remaining he gave into the incessant demands. He slowed down on the pit straight. 'You don't need to say anything,' the Briton said scornfully.

Hamilton finished third for Mercedes – a good day for him, surviving an out-of-control move by Verstappen. The pair collided on lap 63 of 70, sending the Dutchman into the air. He continued to finish fifth, and in conflict with his pit wall, who called his complaints 'childish'.

There was drama before the race even started in a harbinger of things to come Norris reported problems with his throttle as he drove his car on to a grid of egg-drying heat. His mechanics frantically attended to the issue, one threading hands through the chassis to the clever parts hidden below.

Others peered at computer screens in this frantic attempt to allow the pole-sitter even to start the race. They toiled on through the performing of the national anthem – Placido Domingo standing close by the ceremonials at the front, but with no signing part.

Norris returned to the car for an update. He could start. The grid cleared.

Could Norris get off as cleanly as he would wish? Could he get to the first corner ahead this time, as he hadn't Spain from the same place. He couldn't drama ensuing. He couldn't he pushed too far right and was falling over Piastri, starting second. Verstappen, coming charging through on the outside of them went three abreast. The Dutchman ran off and gained a place. Norris fell to fourth briefly and then third moments later on that first lap.

Piastri was leading and Verstappen was told to hand a place back to Norris for running off track. '

OK, so you can just drive people off the track then,' raged Verstappen. 'You can tell the FIA that's how we're going to race from now onwards. Just driving people off the road.'

Anyway, Piastri led until the second round of pit stops changed things dramatically. And then, when Norris bowed to his bosses, they changed once and for all.