Dutch Grand Prix

Max Verstappen clinched a hard-fought home victory against Mercedes after strategy chaos in the Dutch Grand Prix, as a furious Lewis Hamilton dropped from ...

As the race progressed, it looked like Verstappen would have to overtake both Hamilton and Russell on a tight circuit. But, soon after, Russell demanded soft tyres too and his team listened, now putting him third and leaving Hamilton a sitting duck on his eight-lap-old medium tyres. You can either pit Lewis, lose track position against Verstappen, and leave George out - screwed. Hamilton, having calmed down slightly, praised the mechanics and the team's result, with Mercedes now appearing Red Bull's main challengers. "First of all, Lewis is ahead. "That was the biggest **** up," said Hamilton on team radio.

Max Verstappen won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on Sunday, his 10th victory of the season for Red Bull.

Nothing could deny Max Verstappen’s Spa surge as he charged to a ninth Formula 1 win of the season, while yet more bad luck and questionable calls mired Charles Leclerc. OPINION: Audi's arrival in Formula 1 for 2026 was confirmed on the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix. After a flawless Belgian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen and Red Bull were given a tougher time on the opening day at Zandvoort.

Max Verstappen held onto victory in a captivating 2022 Dutch Grand Prix amid a strong showing from the Mercedes and late Safety Car drama at Zandvoort, ...

Team mate Perez was sent into the pits for hard tyres on Lap 41, emerging P7 and right in front of Alonso, but the Mexican soon found his feet and began to turn up the pace, passing hard-shod Norris on Lap 44. The race resumed on Lap 50, hard-shod Verstappen leading Hamilton by over 12 seconds while Russell was in third, five seconds ahead of hard-tyred Leclerc. Perhaps a Virtual Safety Car would be called – a reprieve for Leclerc and Verstappen in the face of two swift Mercedes. With Mercedes putting on a show of pace on their hard tyres, both closing in on Leclerc, Verstappen was asked for his take on the strategy. Hamilton was then pulled in for a set of hards on Lap 30, releasing Verstappen back into the lead as the Mercedes driver emerged ahead of a now medium-shod Sainz. Verstappen responded to Leclerc’s stop on Lap 19 – losing time as he was stationary for 3.4 seconds – and emerged around four seconds ahead of the Ferrari while Hamilton led Russell. At the start of Lap 36, Hamilton closed in on Perez and the Mexican locked up heavily in defence of P3 into Turn 1. As Russell retook P6 off Norris, the top six was unchanged by Lap 5 – but Hamilton was gaining on Sainz in the chase for P3. Almost miraculously, he continued on in last place and reported that the car was okay – and there was no Safety Car either. Hamilton ended up fourth at the flag as Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez – the former held back by a calamitous Ferrari pit stop earlier on, before a five-second penalty for an unsafe release in a later stop – battled late on for P5. A huge roar, and it was lights out for this 72-lap duel on the dunes. In that restart, Verstappen swept past the Mercedes for the lead, with Russell and Leclerc following suit to pry Hamilton away from the podium.

World champion Max Verstappen won a fourth straight race at his home Dutch Grand Prix with Mercedes' George Russell in second at Zandvoort on Sunday.

The world champion, in the best form of his career, stretched his lead in the drivers' standings to 109 points after this 15th round of the 22-race season. Leclerc and Sergio Perez, his Red Bull teammate who came in fifth, lead the chasing pack level on 201 points. "It was not a straightfoward race.

Toto Wolff says his Mercedes Formula 1 team pushed to take risks with its Dutch Grand Prix strategy in order to fight for victory rather than settle for a ...

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After claiming pole position yesterday ahead of championship rival Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen looks to make it four wins in-a-row at home track ...

Lap 30: In response to that Verstappen overtake, Hamilton dives into the pitlane to strap on a set of hard tyres. Lap 3: Yellow flags in sector one and it's Magnussen who loses it mid-corner and hits the barrier with a thump. Sainz in P3 is already 3.8 seconds adrift of the front pair and he himself is coming under heavy pressure from Hamilton behind. For fans in Canada, TSN will carry the English-language telecast of races. Lap 33: Russell is also now into the pits so it's as you were at the top as Verstappen leads from Leclerc. He gets a lovely exit out of the final corner and easily gets past Hamilton heading into corner one. Verstappen pits for a soft set of tyres but both Mercedes cars stay out and now Hamilton leads the race! Leclerc is down to P4 after the stops as Ferrari's misery looks set to continue here in the Netherlands. That stoppage came at the perfect time for Verstappen and Red Bull. That seems a lengthy gap but the time is continuing to fall. Hold on, down the back straight Russell jumps Hamilton and the pair nearly collide. Lap 64: During that restart Sainz also overtook Perez into corner one with a lovely move all the way around the outside.

DRIVERS 1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 2 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes)3 – Charles LECLERC (Ferrari) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by David Coulthard) Q: ...

You go through all the procedures so it's nice, of course, to see all the crowd and the craziness and I appreciate it a lot but I think also, as a sportsman, you focus on your job, right? As a racing driver and where we are at the moment as a team, we want to win. MV: Not real weaknesses but we know at some places where we are stronger than others, we know on a high downforce track that it's a bit of a more difficult situation to get the best out of our package. And then of course, after the race, you take it all in and of course, this was a very special weekend for me, to see, all of these fans come out and support me. But I think I don't need to tell anyone in the team, the motivation we have, to always try to improve and to win races, even when we win races, we still want to do better. And also, today we will look at a lot of things that we can do better but I think that's what you always need to have, that kind of approach, always wanting to do more, wanting to do better, because that's how you stay on top because if you stand still, of course, people at the end will overtake you. And then we went out and we were clearly lacking a little bit of pace on that Hard compared to the Mercedes cars on the Medium. If we continue to qualify P6 and P8 as we have done in the last two race weekends, we're going to really struggle to win a race. MV: I have to say, when I swapped to the Medium, of course, I was catching them, which is normal because I had a newer tyre, they were still doing good lap times, I have to say. But then, of course, with that late Safety Car, we could switch back to the preferred tyre, the Soft one, and we could get back into lead. MV: Yeah, I mean, before that Safety Car I thought it was OK to the end with the Hard tyres, even though we were a bit slower. I know you take one race at a time and you never give up but what is your feeling now in the championship challenge?

Sergio Perez has changed his engine prior to the Dutch Grand Prix. The Mexican will start from fifth position at Zandvoort, as he will not receive a ...

The Canadian has a different engine in his [Aston Martin](/en/brands/aston-martin), but it is not new. [Lance Stroll](/en/f1-drivers/lance-stroll). [Red Bull Racing](/en/f1-teams/red-bull-racing) replaced Perez's engine prior to the Dutch GP.

This season had been a trying old slog for Lewis Hamilton at best and his frustration and disappointment at the Sisyphean task of repeatedly wrangling a ...

This was a risk but it proved inspired, the hard tyre was quicker than expected and Hamilton made the most of it. Intending to go long they did so and then switched both Hamilton and Russell to the hard tyre to one-stop and make it to the flag. It was made more so as, until those final moments, Mercedes had played a blinder to put him in real contention against the faster Red Bulls and Ferraris. Over 90 minutes after the finish Hamilton spoke to the media having had time to calm down and regain his equilibrium. This season had been a trying old slog for Lewis Hamilton at best and his frustration and disappointment at the Sisyphean task of repeatedly wrangling a recalcitrant Mercedes has been palpable. What was most noticeable as these tense moments played out and Hamilton saw his chances slipping away was the unusual virulence of his reaction.

After claiming pole position yesterday ahead of championship rival Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen looks to make it four wins in-a-row at home track ...

Lap 30: In response to that Verstappen overtake, Hamilton dives into the pitlane to strap on a set of hard tyres. Lap 3: Yellow flags in sector one and it's Magnussen who loses it mid-corner and hits the barrier with a thump. Sainz in P3 is already 3.8 seconds adrift of the front pair and he himself is coming under heavy pressure from Hamilton behind. For fans in Canada, TSN will carry the English-language telecast of races. Lap 33: Russell is also now into the pits so it's as you were at the top as Verstappen leads from Leclerc. He gets a lovely exit out of the final corner and easily gets past Hamilton heading into corner one. Verstappen pits for a soft set of tyres but both Mercedes cars stay out and now Hamilton leads the race! Leclerc is down to P4 after the stops as Ferrari's misery looks set to continue here in the Netherlands. That stoppage came at the perfect time for Verstappen and Red Bull. That seems a lengthy gap but the time is continuing to fall. Hold on, down the back straight Russell jumps Hamilton and the pair nearly collide. Lap 64: During that restart Sainz also overtook Perez into corner one with a lovely move all the way around the outside.

Max Verstappen won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on Sunday, his 10th victory of the season for Red Bull.

Nothing could deny Max Verstappen’s Spa surge as he charged to a ninth Formula 1 win of the season, while yet more bad luck and questionable calls mired Charles Leclerc. OPINION: Audi's arrival in Formula 1 for 2026 was confirmed on the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix. OPINION: With Verstappen dominating the Formula 1 world championship battle, few are in doubt about where this year’s trophy is going.

Follow live coverage of the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix. Keep up to date with everything that happens during the race at Zandvoort.

In the blog, we will provide you with the latest developments during the Dutch Grand Prix. [Mercedes](/formula-1-teams/mercedes) get in on the action and trouble both teams after showing strong pace all weekend? [Red Bull](/formula-1-teams/red-bull) in front of the orange army?

With a lead of more than a hundred points in the Formula 1 championship, you would say that Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing do not need outside help, ...

Some shady shit is happening to help Max win [#formula1] [#f1] [September 4, 2022] It was an odd moment but sport is just wild sometimes…— Crash F1 (@CRASH_NET_F1) [@F1]should commit to looking into it. [Ferrari](/en/f1-teams/ferrari)'s performance. Moreover, this year's title fight is not between Red Bull and Mercedes, so there are few reasons why two teams would risk so much to score some extra points. After the [Dutch Grand Prix](/en/grandsprix/dutch-grand-prix), conspiracy theories surfaced about [Yuki Tsunoda](/en/f1-drivers/yuki-tsunoda)'s retirement, which some fans believe was staged to help Verstappen to victory.

The 15th round of the 2022 Formula 1 season may have initially promised a Max Verstappen walkover but it quickly became far more tense and controversial ...

Vettel was making small progress when he came out ahead of a scrapping Hamilton and Perez. It was he who overruled his Mercedes team and boldly made the call to pit and concede second place to Verstappen. – JC – VK Alonso then repelled the McLaren for good measure. This switch to the soft tyres gave him far superior grip to his team-mate who he easily cast aside – albeit via nearly running into the back of Hamilton such was his pace advantage.

Lewis Hamilton apologised to his Mercedes team after a radio rant during the Dutch GP, which was won by Max Verstappen.

So it was worth taking the risk." "He had a tyre that was five laps old, the medium, holding position was the right thing to do. "Lewis was ahead, so you always have a little bit longer with the call [for those behind]. We discussed at the moment, are we taking risks for the race win? Yes, we are taking risks. We were quicker than most [teams] at many points.

Max Verstappen's popularity, among other reasons ensures the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort will feature on the F1 calendar for years to come.

We offer so much value in terms of sustainability, smart mobility and entertainment.” “Other tracks might offer more financially,” Lammers said. [Dutch Grand Prix](https://www.grandprix247.com/2022/09/04/2022-f1-dutch-grand-prix-race-preview-report-results-photos-quotes/) organisers said they were confident their race would remain part of Formula 1 in the years to come, as the ‘Orange Army’ of Max Verstappen fans filled the stands early on Sunday in anticipation of another win for the local hero.

Transcript from the post-race interviews and FIA hosted top three press conference after the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

You go through all the procedures so it’s nice, of course, to see all the crowd and the craziness and I appreciate it a lot but I think also, as a sportsman, you focus on your job, right? As a racing driver and where we are at the moment as a team, we want to win. MV: Not real weaknesses but we know at some places where we are stronger than others, we know on a high downforce track that it’s a bit of a more difficult situation to get the best out of our package. And then of course, after the race, you take it all in and of course, this was a very special weekend for me, to see, all of these fans come out and support me. But I think I don’t need to tell anyone in the team, the motivation we have, to always try to improve and to win races, even when we win races, we still want to do better. And also, today we will look at a lot of things that we can do better but I think that’s what you always need to have, that kind of approach, always wanting to do more, wanting to do better, because that’s how you stay on top because if you stand still, of course, people at the end will overtake you. And then we went out and we were clearly lacking a little bit of pace on that Hard compared to the Mercedes cars on the Medium. If we continue to qualify P6 and P8 as we have done in the last two race weekends, we’re going to really struggle to win a race. MV: I have to say, when I swapped to the Medium, of course, I was catching them, which is normal because I had a newer tyre, they were still doing good lap times, I have to say. But then, of course, with that late Safety Car, we could switch back to the preferred tyre, the Soft one, and we could get back into lead. MV: Yeah, I mean, before that Safety Car I thought it was OK to the end with the Hard tyres, even though we were a bit slower. I know you take one race at a time and you never give up but what is your feeling now in the championship challenge?

The Dutch Grand Prix was once again a win for Max Verstappen. The Dutchman dominated the race weekend in Zandvoort and that is reflected in his grade from ...

[Sebastian Vettel](/en/f1-drivers/sebastian-vettel) had a bad weekend on behalf of Aston Martin. [Esteban Ocon](/en/f1-drivers/esteban-ocon), as Alpine's future leader, had to watch Alonso steal the show again on Sunday. [Lando Norris](/en/f1-drivers/lando-norris) drove in contrast to his teammate a strong weekend. The race was a good follow-up to a top ten finish in qualifying. [Charles Leclerc](/en/f1-drivers/charles-leclerc) had some bad luck with the first VSC, but otherwise drove a solid weekend. He lacked race pace compared to Leclerc and Verstappen and was easily passed by the Mercedes later in the race.

Verstappen triumphs again and we saw more of Red Bull's imperious strategy, while the FIA moves late on safety car calls. Max Verstappen celebrating at ...

The Milton Keynes-based team are going to win both championships primarily because they have produced the year’s best car and possess the fastest racing driver in the world. - Kevin Magnussen – Haas – +36.869 - Mick Schumacher – Haas – +32.995 - Carlos Sainz – Ferrari – +20.916 - Lando Norris – McLaren – +19.306 - Fernando Alonso – Alpine – +18.754 - Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes – +13.016 - Charles Leclerc – Ferrari – +10.929 - George Russell – Mercedes – +4.071 This season Ferrari have made huge errors on their pit wall almost every single weekend, and things are not improving. Ferrari were never really in contention for the win at Zandvoort after Verstappen managed to hold off the challenge of both Leclerc and team-mate Carlos Sainz into Turn 1. Verstappen swiftly re-took the lead and secured his tenth from 15 grands prix so far this season.

Max Verstappen tightened his grip on the Formula 1 world title with another home win at the Dutch Grand Prix.

OPINION: Audi's arrival in Formula 1 for 2026 was confirmed on the eve of the Belgian Grand Prix. After a flawless Belgian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen and Red Bull were given a tougher time on the opening day at Zandvoort. Just 0.021 seconds had split Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc in qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix on Saturday.

Which drivers kicked sand in the faces of their rivals by the Zandvoort seaside? Here's our ratings for round 15 of the season.

Yuki Tsunoda: You can often rely on Yuki for some entertainment and he let nobody down with a quite bizarre retirement, twice stopping out on track with a trip to the pits in between – complete with mechanics furtling around in the cockpit to refasten his seatbelts. He had been running close to his Alfa Romeo team-mate Zhou before that and even if he had got round, it was never going to be a vintage race for Valtteri. A big mistake in qualifying meant he started down in 19th and he was always on the back foot from there. Sebastian Vettel: First to pit, Vettel later found himself in the way of a battle between Hamilton and Perez – and received a five-second penalty for ignoring blue flags when he emerged from the pits. Started where he finished, but that was creditable in the circumstances and he deserves praise also for a strong qualifying performance. [Esteban Ocon](https://live.planetf1.com/f1-drivers/esteban-ocon): A good start in which he made up three places and then a planned one-stop strategy which obviously had to be adapted due to the Safety Car. He deserved better than P8 on the day and understandably described it as “a mess”, although his race pace did leave a bit to be desired compared to his colleague. Early passes on the two AlphaTauris set the tone and although there was an awkward moment in a dice with Lando Norris, he eventually got past the McLaren – importantly in the battle for P4 in the Constructors’ Championship. Lewis Hamilton: Sending the bleep machine into overdrive with a team radio rant, Hamilton sensed a first win of 2022 was on the cards until he was hung out to dry when left out on his medium tyres following the Safety Car period. [Max Verstappen](https://live.planetf1.com/f1-drivers/max-verstappen): It’s now four triumphs in a row for the World Champion but this was something of a paradox to the previous two, in which he had started down the grid but ended up winning comfortably. Pole position, race win, fastest lap – almost the full set, and the fact he did not lead for the entirety will not matter a jot to his supporters as this was another faultless display. The younger of the two Britons benefited considerably from a Mercedes strategy – to which he had also contributed with team radio input – that was strangely reminiscent of what Ferrari had done at the British Grand Prix, only he could not emulate Carlos Sainz at Silverstone by bagging the race win.

Max Verstappen earned a second Formula 1 victory on home soil but he wasn't the best-performing driver of the Dutch Grand Prix.

He felt at one with the car throughout qualifying, outpacing Magnussen in Q1, judging the track evolution superbly and was rewarded with eighth place – albeit with the advantage of not having his fresh-tyre lap ruined by Perez’s spin, which allowed him to beat Tsunoda. Alfa Romeo felt it had stronger race pace than qualifying pace and spent his short first stint in the queue behind Alonso. Felt he’d extracted the most from the car on a weekend when tyre warm-up troubles made his one-lap pace a big weakness, hence the three runs in Q1. The Williams didn’t quite have the pace to score points and Albon, therefore, did a good job to finish two places outside the top 10. But he went off at Turn 13 on his final Q1 lap after hitting dust pulled onto the track by Stroll and ended up 19th. He repassed Alonso into and through Turn 3, but ended the first lap 12th. While he was not as quick as Tsunoda through qualifying, he did enough to close to 0.084s off his team-mate and salvage 11th in a car that was still suffering from understeer. Never ran higher than 16th and was unable to make any progress from the lower reaches of the midfield, finishing ahead only of Latifi. Although he still beat Perez having passed him on lap 61, he was relegated from fifth-on-the-road to eighth by the penalty as his pace wasn’t strong enough to build a big enough gap over the leading midfielders. Had the pace for pole position having finally found the strong front end he required in Q3. Was a step behind Hamiton through qualifying, exemplified by having to use two sets of softs during Q2 after struggling with the Pirellis on the first run which left him with only one fresh set for Q3. Emerged as Verstappen’s strongest challenger on a planned one-stopper, but the timing of the first VSC denied both Mercedes drivers the chance to see how their strategy played out against Verstappen.