ROUND

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Dutch Grand Prix

2026-08-23·72 laps

Norris secured back-to-back victories in the final Dutch Grand Prix ever held at Zandvoort, beating Antonelli and Russell in a strategic masterclass. Verstappen's race ended on lap 1 when he was forced onto a damp patch avoiding a Leclerc squeeze and crashed heavily into the barriers, triggering a red flag. After the restart, Norris controlled from the front while Antonelli tried to cover every move. The key moment came on lap 54 — Norris swept around the outside of Turn 1 to pass Antonelli, then passed Hamilton two corners later to retake the lead. A VSC for Ocon's retirement reshuffled the order; Antonelli pitted for softs and was ordered past Russell by team orders. Norris and Russell successfully defended on older hards to the flag. McLaren have now won three straight. Antonelli's championship lead extends to 36 points over Russell.

Race Winner

Lando Norris

McLaren

Fastest Lap

1:14.230

Charles Leclerc

Conditions

☀ Dry

Circuit Profile

Circuit Zandvoort

Lap length

4.259 km

Race distance

72 laps · 306.6 km

Tyre allocation

H C2 · M C3 · S C4

Pit-lane loss (model)

≈ 19.6 s

Tyre degradation

High

Overtaking

Difficult

Pit-lane loss, degradation and overtaking are PITWALL simulator inputs for this circuit, not official figures.

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Qualifying

POS	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	Lando Norris	1:12.695	1:11.628	1:11.163	1
2	George Russell	1:12.924	1:11.959	1:11.265	2
3	Kimi Antonelli	1:13.022	1:11.915	1:11.296	3
4	Oscar Piastri	1:12.610	1:11.641	1:11.305	4
5	Lewis Hamilton	1:12.673	1:11.970	1:11.494	5
6	Charles Leclerc	1:13.064	1:11.910	1:11.558	6
7	Max Verstappen	1:13.290	1:11.874	1:11.618	7
8	Liam Lawson	1:13.392	1:12.301	1:11.733	8
9	Gabriel Bortoleto	1:13.142	1:12.433	1:12.079	9
10	Arvid Lindblad	1:13.074	1:12.525	1:12.185	10
11	Pierre Gasly	1:13.115	1:12.616	—	11
12	Yuki Tsunoda	1:13.085	1:12.627	—	12
13	Nico Hulkenberg	1:13.188	1:12.797	—	13
14	Franco Colapinto	1:13.322	1:12.800	—	14
15	Esteban Ocon	1:13.544	1:13.137	—	15
16	Alexander Albon	1:13.552	1:13.182	—	16
17	Carlos Sainz	1:13.574	—	—	17
18	Fernando Alonso	1:13.650	—	—	18
19	Lance Stroll	1:13.818	—	—	19
20	Oliver Bearman	1:13.826	—	—	20
21	Valtteri Bottas	1:14.371	—	—	21
22	Sergio Perez	1:14.600	—	—	22

Grid to Finish

Places gained or lost between the starting grid (after penalties) and the flag, for 16 of 16 classified drivers.

Biggest gains

Fernando AlonsoP18 → P9+9

Sergio PerezP22 → P15+7

Nico HulkenbergP13 → P8+5

Biggest losses

Gabriel BortoletoP9 → P13-4

Oscar PiastriP4 → P6-2

Arvid LindbladP10 → P12-2

Sprint Race

POS	Driver	Time	Gap	Pts
1	George Russell	1825.318	Leader	+8
2	Charles Leclerc	1826.678	+1.360	+7
3	Lando Norris	1830.514	+5.196	+6
4	Kimi Antonelli	1830.899	+5.581	+5
5	Oscar Piastri	1835.503	+10.185	+4
6	Max Verstappen	1835.847	+10.529	+3
7	Lewis Hamilton	1837.506	+12.188	+2
8	Pierre Gasly	1867.828	+42.510	+1
9	Gabriel Bortoleto	1869.755	+44.437	—
10	Arvid Lindblad	1870.289	+44.971	—
11	Liam Lawson	1872.789	+47.471	—
12	Franco Colapinto	1879.784	+54.466	—
13	Yuki Tsunoda	1881.801	+56.483	—
14	Esteban Ocon	1891.416	+66.098	—
15	Oliver Bearman	1891.906	+66.588	—
16	Alexander Albon	1899.950	+74.632	—
17	Lance Stroll	1899.968	+74.650	—
18	Fernando Alonso	1900.602	+75.284	—
19	Valtteri Bottas	1901.368	+1 Lap	—
20	Carlos Sainz	1903.368	+1 Lap	—
21	Sergio Perez	2053.468	+3 Laps	—
22	Nico Hulkenberg	—	NC	—

Race Timeline

🚦LAP 1Lights out — 72 laps scheduled

🚩LAP 1Verstappen forced onto damp grass avoiding Leclerc at T1 — loses rear at final corner, heavy crash into barriers. Red flag. Bortoleto spins behind, continues. Bearman had already retired on lap to grid (PU issue)

🔧LAP 11First pit stop of the race: Gabriel Bortoleto switches to Medium

⚡LAP 18Russell pits first M→H (L18); McLaren covers with Piastri but 5.4s slow stop. Russell emerges ahead. Norris, Antonelli, Leclerc, Lawson all pit together L21

🏆LAP 21Race winner Lando Norris makes stop 1, fitting Hard

⚡LAP 40Mercedes double-stack: Antonelli and Russell pit H→S together (lap 40). Antonelli P2, Russell P3 on softs. Hamilton still out on older hard (lap 25 stop)

🏆LAP 47Race winner Lando Norris makes stop 2, fitting Hard

🏎LAP 54Norris sweeps around the outside of T1 to pass Antonelli for P2 — then passes Hamilton two corners later to take the lead. Seven-lap tyre offset the key

🟡LAP 56VSC: Ocon retires T3 (Haas mechanical). Antonelli, Hamilton, Leclerc, Piastri pit for softs. Hamilton complains on radio: 'Are you using me as a guinea pig?' Mercedes team order: Russell cedes P2 to Antonelli on softs. Norris and Russell stay on older hards — defend to flag

🔧LAP 65Last pit stop of the race: Carlos Sainz switches to Soft

🏁LAP 72Chequered flag — Lando Norris wins

Tyre Strategy

Every stint for the 16 classified drivers with recorded pit data (16 classified in total). Bar lengths are to scale with the 72-lap race distance.

🚩 marks a tyre change made while the race was red-flagged — a free change, not a pit stop. Stop counts below include pit stops only.

P1Lando Norris

M

S 19

H 26

H 25

P2Kimi Antonelli

M 21

H 19

H 16

S 16

P3George Russell

M 17

H 23

H 32

P4Lewis Hamilton

S 25

H 30

S 17

P5Charles Leclerc

S

S 19

M 22

H 12

S 17

P6Oscar Piastri

M

H 16

H 26

S 11

S 17

P7Liam Lawson

S

S 19

M 26

M 25

P8Nico Hulkenberg

S 19

S 29

H 24

P9Fernando Alonso

S

S 32

H 38

P10Pierre Gasly

M 18

H 28

M 26

P11Yuki Tsunoda

S 18

H 26

S 28

P12Arvid Lindblad

S

M 34

H 36

P13Gabriel Bortoleto

S

S 9

M 23

H 19

S 19

P14Franco Colapinto

M

M 19

H 24

S 27

P15Sergio Perez

S

H 27

H 23

S 20

P16Carlos Sainz

S

S 28

H 35

S

LAP 1LAP 36LAP 72

One-stop

2

Two-stop

10

Three+ stops

4

🚩 10 driver(s) changed tyres under the red flag

Winner's strategy: Medium → Soft → Hard → Hard

Longest stint: Fernando Alonso, 38 laps on Hard

Compound sequences used

Soft → Hard → Soft

2 driver(s) · best result P4

Soft → Soft → Medium → Hard → Soft

2 driver(s) · best result P5

Soft → Soft → Hard

2 driver(s) · best result P8

Medium → Soft → Hard → Hard

1 driver(s) · best result P1

Medium → Hard → Hard → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P2

Medium → Hard → Hard

1 driver(s) · best result P3

Medium → Hard → Hard → Soft → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P6

Soft → Soft → Medium → Medium

1 driver(s) · best result P7

Medium → Hard → Medium

1 driver(s) · best result P10

Soft → Medium → Hard

1 driver(s) · best result P12

Medium → Medium → Hard → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P14

Soft → Hard → Hard → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P15

Soft → Soft → Hard → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P16

Pit Stops & Neutralisations

First stops came between lap 11 and lap 36, with a median of lap 21.

Stops made within 2 laps of a Safety Car or VSC being called. The race data records when a neutralisation started, not when it ended.

🟡 VSC · lap 56

Kimi Antonelli — lap 56, stop 3, onto Soft

Why They Lost

Strategy and race factors that shaped the result for drivers who finished behind Lando Norris.

P2Kimi AntonelliMercedes

▸Made 3 stops to the winner's 2, conceding track position on the extra in-lap and out-lap.

P5Charles LeclercFerrari

▸Made 3 stops to the winner's 2, conceding track position on the extra in-lap and out-lap.
▸Set the race's fastest lap but finished P5 — the pace was there, the result was not.

P6Oscar PiastriMcLaren

▸Made 3 stops to the winner's 2, conceding track position on the extra in-lap and out-lap.

P13Gabriel BortoletoAudi

▸Made 3 stops to the winner's 2, conceding track position on the extra in-lap and out-lap.
▸Pitted 10 laps earlier than Lando Norris (lap 11 vs 21), exposing the next stint to more wear.

P9Fernando AlonsoAston Martin

▸Pitted 13 laps later than Lando Norris (lap 34 vs 21), losing time on worn tyres before the stop.

P12Arvid LindbladRacing Bulls

▸Pitted 15 laps later than Lando Norris (lap 36 vs 21), losing time on worn tyres before the stop.

Strategy Breakdown

Simulator replay is unavailable for this race: the simulator can't yet reproduce free tyre changes under a red flag, so a replay would charge pit-lane time the drivers never lost.

POS	Driver	Strategy	Time	Gap
1	Lando Norris McLaren P -1.4%T 0.95O 1.10	M→S🚩L2→HL21→HL47	2:04:44.412	+0.000	—
2	Kimi Antonelli Mercedes P -1.7%T 0.93O 1.08	M→HL21→HL40→SL56	2:04:55.948	+11.536	—
3	George Russell Mercedes P -2.0%T 0.90O 1.05	M→HL17→HL40	2:05:00.318	+15.906	—
4	Lewis Hamilton Ferrari P -1.5%T 0.86O 1.15	S→HL25→SL55	2:05:01.167	+16.755	—
5	Charles Leclerc Ferrari P -1.6%T 0.92O 1.08	S→S🚩L2→ML21→HL43→SL55	2:05:06.483	+22.071	—
6	Oscar Piastri McLaren P -1.3%T 0.94O 1.05	M→H🚩L2→HL18→SL44→SL55	2:05:12.207	+27.795	—
7	Liam Lawson Red Bull Racing P 0.8%T 1.00O 1.05	S→S🚩L2→ML21→ML47	2:05:35.891	+51.479	—
8	Nico Hulkenberg Audi P 0.8%T 0.97O 1.02	S→SL19→HL48	2:05:43.224	+58.812	—
9	Fernando Alonso Aston Martin P 0.5%T 0.94O 1.10	S→S🚩L2→HL34	2:05:48.701	+1 LAP	—
10	Pierre Gasly Alpine P 0.8%T 0.98O 1.00	M→HL18→ML46	2:05:51.047	+1 LAP	—
11	Yuki Tsunoda Racing Bulls	S→HL18→SL44	2:06:28.362	+1 Lap	—
12	Arvid Lindblad Racing Bulls	S→M🚩L2→HL36	2:06:30.362	+1 Lap	—
13	Gabriel Bortoleto Audi	S→S🚩L2→ML11→HL34→SL53	2:06:32.362	+1 Lap	—
14	Franco Colapinto Alpine	M→M🚩L2→HL21→SL45	2:08:12.312	+2 Laps (incl. 10s penalty)	—
15	Sergio Perez Cadillac	S→H🚩L2→HL29→SL52	2:08:14.312	+2 Laps	—
16	Carlos Sainz Williams	S→S🚩L2→HL30→SL65	2:08:16.312	+2 Laps (incl. 10s penalty)	—
17	Alexander Albon Williams	S→H🚩L2→HL26→ML49	—	DNF	—
18	Valtteri Bottas Cadillac	H→H🚩L2→HL28→SL51	—	DNF	—
19	Esteban Ocon Haas	M→S🚩L2→HL16→HL36	—	DNF	—
20	Lance Stroll Aston Martin	S→S🚩L2→HL15→HL35	—	DNF	—
21	Oliver Bearman Haas	S	—	DNF	—
22	Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing	S	—	DNF	—