Formula 1 2023 Dutch Grand Prix results

In a mixed weather race, Sainz admitted Ferrari "was nowhere" on pace and says both he and the team executed a near perfect race to finish fifth, holding off Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and McLaren's Lando Norris at the chequered flag."I would say after looking at the Alpine [we were] more [like] the sixth-fastest car this weekend," said Sainz. "I know at some point it looked that we even could ...

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The Englishman acknowledged that strategy calls played a role, especially the decision to stay out on slicks at the original start.However, he insisted that the MCL60 simply wasn’t as competitive on Sunday as it was in qualifying, citing the comparison with rivals Aston Martin and Mercedes as “terrible”.“There are times when it's down to pace and times when it's down to strategy, and the ...

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The Australian has been sidelined by injury three rounds into his F1 return after crashing in second practice at Zandvoort.He locked the front wheels into the banked Turn 3 to shunt into the barrier. The steering wheel moved violently upon impact to result in a broken metacarpal in his left hand.Ricciardo underwent surgery and “metal work” in Barcelona on Sunday and is believed to have been ...

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The two-time world champion lined up fifth on the grid as rain arrived in time for the race start, with the whole field shod with slick Pirellis.Eventual race runner-up Alonso squeezed around the outside of fellow Spaniard and Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz through Turn 2 to cement his starting position before diving to the inside of the banked Turn 3 left-hander.As Mercedes racer George Russell and ...

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Max Verstappen looks essentially unstoppable in Formula 1 right now, but his 2023 Dutch Grand Prix victory was a masterclass in changing circumstances.He delighted his home fans for a third year in a row, with pictures of the crowd dancing throughout the late-race red flag stoppage entertaining many watching from afar, but Verstappen really had to work for this one.This is because others ...

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Sargeant stayed out on slicks in the wet early stages of the race and managed to survive the tricky conditions while losing a lot of time.With the track dry, he was running in last place when he speared off the road after touching the inside kerb at Turn 8 on lap 15.The incident came just 24 hours after the American crashed heavily on slicks on a drying track having made Q3 for the first time in ...

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The Frenchman claimed after the race that the wet compound was "not the right tyre at any moment" and that if conditions were right for it, a red flag would probably result, which is exactly what happened.Ocon eventually claimed a point for 10th place on a day when team-mate Pierre Gasly gave the Enstone outfit a boost by finishing third, but he remained convinced that he could have done ...

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The Dutch Grand Prix was derailed by two rain showers, the latter of which prompted a red flag due to severe aquaplaning into Turn 1, which caused a crash for Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu.At the start of the lap 62 downpour Verstappen wasn't entirely convinced about coming in for intermediates yet, with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase urging him that "it would be a good time to pit" as the track ...

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Perez's future has been the subject of endless speculation due to the large performance gap between him and team-mate Max Verstappen this year, with the Dutchman romping to his ninth consecutive victory at Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.Recent comments by Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko further added fuel to the fire, the Austrian suggesting in several German-language interviews Perez was not 100% ...

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French driver Gasly finished fourth on the road in a chaotic rain-hit race at Zandvoort but a pitlane speeding penalty for Sergio Perez bumped him up to third. The result marks Alpine’s second top-three classification in as many rounds, with Gasly also ranking third in the Belgian sprint race.This brace of headline results follows immediately after team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting ...

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The championship leader, who extended his points advantage to 138 points following his Dutch Grand Prix victory, won the season opener in Bahrain as he sought to successfully defend his title once more.But he traded blows with Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez in the opening four races of the season, as the Mexican chalked up wins in Saudi Arabia and Baku while Verstappen took victory in ...

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Leclerc had a collision with Oscar Piastri on the damp first lap of the race before diving into the pits for a switch to intermediates, which proved to be slow as the crew wasn't ready with his tyres.The team could do nothing about the damage to his floor, and data indicated that he gradually lost more downforce as the race progressed.He tumbled down the order and, shortly after being demoted to ...

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Ricciardo has been sidelined by injury three rounds into his F1 return after crashing in second practice at Zandvoort.The Australian locked the front wheels into the banked Turn 3 to shunt into the barrier. The steering wheel moved violently upon impact resulting in a broken metacarpal in his left hand.With Red Bull reserve Liam Lawson deputising for Ricciardo, the current Japanese Super Formula ...

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A rain shower hit Zandvoort on the opening lap of the race and seventh-starting Perez reacted fastest by pitting at the first opportunity to ditch soft Pirellis for intermediates.As the majority of the grid then stopped one tour later, the Mexican emerged with a 10.4-second advantage over George Russell as Verstappen fell to 14.246s behind come the fourth lap.Eventual race winner Verstappen then ...

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Mercedes immediately shot itself in the foot at Zandvoort by staying out too long on slicks when it started raining at the start. The team underestimated the intensity of the brief shower that shook up the order, as it also caught out other teams including McLaren and Williams.The strategy error hindered Lewis Hamilton's recovery from 13th on the grid and made George Russell lose a whole minute ...

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On Sunday, Hamilton recovered from a disappointing qualifying session by moving from a lowly 13th grid spot to sixth.But the seven-time world champion's race could have been a lot better if he and Mercedes hadn't been on the wrong side of an early pitstop call.Rain arrived right after the start of the Zandvoort race, with the Mercedes drivers among the cars staying out too long on slicks, which ...

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Alonso finished second in a rain-affected and red-flagged Zandvoort race, 3.7s behind home hero Verstappen in the Red Bull.When the race restarted with six laps to go after a long delay for a break in the weather, Alonso considered making a lunge on Verstappen into Turn 1, but he joked he thought better of it as he would have risked taking the Dutchman out and "not being able to exit the track"."I ...

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Verstappen won – his third consecutive triumph at home to match the record of nine victories in a row – from Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Pierre Gasly (Alpine) after rain heavy caused a red flag following Zhou Guanyu’s hefty crash at Turn 1 required a five-lap sprint to the finish.Red Bull’s Sergio Perez lost third on the road to Gasly due to a penalty for speeding in the pits.2023 ...

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The championship leader kept calm during a six-lap shootout at the end of the race following a red flag for heavy rain, and managed a restart over Fernando Alonso perfectly to extend his streak of F1 victories in a dominant 2023 season.Heavy rainfall on the 61st lap produced a stoppage as the FIA stewards waited for some of the rain to clear, which offered Verstappen a challenge to the lead that ...

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On lap 61 of 72 anticipated heavy showers hit the Zandvoort track, prompting the entire field to change to intermediates of full wets.But even on rain tyres, drivers struggled to navigate the Turn 1 hairpin, with Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu helplessly aquaplaning off the road and into the Tecpro barriers.That caused an initial Virtual Safety Car, which was soon converted into a red flag after 65 laps ...

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Russell spent three years at Williams at the start of his F1 career before returning to parent team Mercedes, with his close friend Albon his replacement as the Grove team's lead driver.Williams has been struggling following years of underinvestment, but empowered by new owners Dorilton, former Mercedes man James Vowles has been overhauling the team to return it back to the front of the ...

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Verstappen has won eight consecutive races since standing atop the podium at the Miami Grand Prix in May. Should he repeat the feat at Zandvoort on Sunday, he will draw level with former Red Bull driver Vettel.The four-time champion scored his record run at the close of the 2013 season, as he secured the last of his four world titles. After qualifying on pole for the Dutch Grand Prix and having ...

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The regulations state that drivers have to use full wet tyres if the formation lap starts behind the safety car. However, if conditions are deemed safe enough for the safety car to be withdrawn, the track is usually already too dry for wet tyres.At the rolling start of the sprint race at Spa last month half the field rushed into the pits to change to intermediates as the safety car came in, with ...

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Albon was the star of Saturday qualifying by taking fourth on the grid on the high-downforce Zandvoort loop. Rookie team-mate Logan Sargeant also claimed his best qualifying result of the season in 10th, with a Q3 crash ruling out an even better grid position.Read Also:

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"Ask them to repeat that [name]," Max Verstappen chuckled when Motorsport.com asked the Dutchman and fellow top three qualifiers Lando Norris and George Russell about why Zandvoort's so-called Hugenholtzbocht was causing so many headaches across the weekend.Verstappen's request prompted lacklustre efforts by his colleagues. However, drivers didn't just trip up over the Dutch pronunciation of Turn ...

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The idea has been floating around on social media in recent days and has been mentioned by Sky F1 commentator David Croft.This year Stroll has struggled to match Aston Martin team-mate Fernando Alonso, which has led some to speculate that he might be reconsidering his future. However, the 24-year-old is adamant that he won’t be switching sports any time soon.“Well, if I'm going to go on tour ...

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The American rookie was able to take advantage of the unexpectedly good form of the Williams at the Dutch GP venue, which also propelled his team-mate Alex Albon to fourth on the grid.Read Also:

F1 Dutch GP: Verstappen beats Norris to pole by 0.5s in disrupted session

Sargeant got through a wet Q2 in an encouraging 10th place but then crashed heavily on slicks early in the final ...

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Only twice this season - in a treacherous wet shootout in Canada and last time out at Spa prior to serving a gearbox penalty - had he been even further in front.With Charles Leclerc crashing and Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez running some 1.313s adrift of Verstappen’s 1min10.567s flier, it was left to Lando Norris to complete the front row and double underline McLaren’s turnaround. He pipped ...

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When the F1 Commission met at last month’s Belgian Grand Prix, the topic of engine equalisation was on the agenda. This followed claims from Alpine that its power unit supplier Renault needed to recover a potential 30bhp deficit relative to rivals Ferrari, Mercedes and Honda.Presently, F1 has an engine performance freeze. As such, Renault elected to target power with its split-turbo 2022 engine ...

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Verstappen will start ahead of Lando Norris (McLaren) and George Russell (Mercedes) in Sunday’s race after the one-hour qualifying session on Friday, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Logan Sargeant caused a red flag in Q3 when he shunted his Williams, and a second was required for Ferrari’s Charles ...

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Last week, Massa stepped up his legal battle over losing the 2008 title by sending a Letter Before Claim addressed to F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, setting out the details of his impending legal challenge over the result of the championship.Massa lost the title to McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by a single point but believes the result of the controversial Singapore ...

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The stewards have ruled that the AlphaTauri driver failed to satisfactorily move off the dry racing line through Turn 13 during Q2 while preparing for a push lap.In doing so, he impeded seven-time world champion Hamilton, who subsequently failed to progress into the top 10 shootout and will start 13th.Tsunoda, who ran 14th fastest, will therefore drop provisionally behind Nico Hulkenberg, Zhou ...

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Leclerc, who scored pole in Azerbaijan and last time out at Spa, was running fifth when he ploughed into the wall with four minutes left in Q3 at Zandvoort.A small snap through the Turn 9 right-hander sent Leclerc over the greasy off-line asphalt and then onto the wet grass where he slid side-on into the barriers, ultimately leaving him ranked ninth.Read Also:

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Hamilton only qualified 13th at Zandvoort after struggling to replicate his early Friday pace in his Mercedes W14.The seven-time world champion was caught out by several drivers blocking him on his flying laps, first by both Aston Martins in Q1 and then by AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda in Q2.But afterwards, Hamilton conceded that his Mercedes was just too slow regardless of traffic, missing the cut to ...

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The New Zealander was drafted into the Faenza-based team after Daniel Ricciardo was injured in a crash at Zandvoort on Friday.The soaking wet FP3 session was his first F1 track outing of 2023 and his first experience of F1 intermediate tyres, and after a steady start he survived a spin that saw him tap the nose of the car on the barrier.He then ended up bottom of the order in 20th in the wet Q1 ...

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Albon topped Q1 on Saturday, ran third in Q2 and then completed the second row of the grid in the final shootout, having lapped 0.852 seconds adrift of clear polesitter Max Verstappen.Albon had expected a "rubbish" performance for the slippery Williams given the high-downforce requirements of Zandvoort which made the track "one of the worst ones" for the team.He had anticipated a tailwind into the ...

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Red Bull star Max Verstappen will start his home race from pole position ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris and Mercedes driver George Russell.What time does qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix start?The Dutch GP will begin at 3pm local time (+2 GMT) at Zandvoort.
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2023
Start time: 13:00 GMT / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST / 15:00 SAT / 16:00 EAT / 09:00 ET / 06:00 PT / 23:00 ...

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The McLaren driver was the best of the rest behind the dominant Max Verstappen, qualifying second but some 0.537s off the Red Bull polesitter at Zandvoort.Read Also:

F1 Dutch GP: Verstappen beats Norris to pole by 0.5s in disrupted session

Norris briefly looked a threat for pole in the final Q3 runs, going quickest in the first sector, but conceded his second half of the lap, which ...

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The Dutchman punched in a 1m10.567s lap, which remained untouchable in the final moments of Q3 to ensure a third consecutive pole at his local race to the delight of his fans.Although the McLarens had headed the order prior to the Charles Leclerc-enforced red flag towards the end of qualifying, Verstappen made no bones of setting himself up for an all-or-nothing flyer at the end and set a ...

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