#F1 #DutchGP #FP1: @LandoNorris heads @McLaren one-two.

Norris Dutch GP FP1 – Lando Norris lead from team-mate Oscar Piastri in a McLaren one-two in the opening practice session at the Dutch GP in Zandvoort as Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll completed the top three. Home favourite Max Verstappen was sixth for Red Bull.

Norris posted the session-topping benchmark on the C4 red side-walled softer compounds with a 1:10.278 and was 0.292 seconds clear of Piastri who was second whilst Stroll was a further 0.501 seconds adrift of the Briton.

The initial 60-minute session began with a Virtual Safety Car as Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg was the first driver to lead the pack out and emerged on the yellow-marked C3 medium compounds.

Hulkenberg was the first to register the benchmark of a 1:15.670 and was quickly beaten by Norris’s 1:15.611 then the latter’s team-mate Piastri shot to the top with two purples and a 1:14.198.

Both RB’s Isack Hadjar and Alpine’s Pierre Gasly slotted into P2 and P3 respectively as Antonelli then moved to second with his 1:14.275.

The two Williams’s of Carlos Sainz and Alexander Albon then jumped to the top two spots with their 1:13.163 and 1:14.155 efforts.

Ferrari’s Sir Lewis Hamilton then took P1 with his 1:13.306 flyer then was pipped by home favourite Verstappen’s 1:12.767 to go fastest.

Norris and Hulkenberg then moved into second and third respectively whilst Piastri demoted Verstappen and the duo down a spot with his 1:12.678 hot-lap as the opening ten minutes was drawing near.

Yuki Tsunoda then planted his RB21 racer into third as Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso then posted a 1:12.577 to go quickest on the time-sheets at the nine-minute mark.

Albon with two personal bests and a purple final sector then moved to the top with a 1:12.457 to jump the Spaniard as replays showed Hamilton suffer a full 360-degree spin at turn three.

Hamilton said he “suffered flat-spots all over.”

Verstappen then moved to the top with a 1:12.101 with a purple middle sector and two personal bests as Sainz slotted into second place to be 0.331 seconds off despite a purple sector three.

Replays showed Red Bull’s Tsunoda off the track after suffering a spin at turn 11 and managed to get out of the gravel trap as Mercedes’ Antonelli was seen beached in the gravel after the latter suffered understeer and a lock-up 11 minutes into the session bringing out the red flags.

Antonelli asked his team if he could rejoin the session to which his race engineer Peter Bonnington responded negative.

After Antonelli’s Silver Arrow was cleared and the session resumed at 18 minutes – Russell was the first out on his C3 yellow-marked mediums followed by Norris and Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto.

Norris moved up into third with his 1:12.245 after Russell’s 1:12.130 effort put the latter into second place to be 0.029 seconds off Verstappen’s benchmark.

Verstappen was next and improved to go even faster setting a 1:11.986 after a purple final sector to be 0.144 seconds ahead of Russell.

Albon with a purple sector three moved up into third whilst Piastri was next on his flying tour with a purple opening sector and two personal bests jumped to top spot with a 1:11.794 to go 0.192 seconds clear of Verstappen and demoted the former to fourth.

Hadjar was next in his VCARB02 to go up into fifth place with three personal bests as Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll with two personal bests planted the Canadian into fourth and 0.370 seconds adrift of Piastri.

Norris followed on his flying lap with the C4 red side-walled softs and with three purples set a solid 1:10.278 benchmark.

The Briton’s McLaren team-mate Piastri then on his softs posted a purple sector one and two personal bests to wound up second and 0.422 seconds off with half-an-hour left on the clock.

Hulkenberg was next with three personal bests on his soft tyre stint to be 1.597 seconds off Norris in third as Russell aborted his hot-lap.

Bortoleto then slotted into fourth as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc then split the Sauber’s in fourth as Hamilton also placed his SF-25 in fifth place behind his Ferrari team-mate.

Williams’ Sainz was next and jumped into third with his 1:11.502 flyer and was 1.224 seconds off the leading McLaren of Norris.

Albon with three personal bests moved up into third on a 1:11.259 and Piastri despite a purple opening sector could only improve to be 0.292 seconds off team-mate Norris’s benchmark with a 1:10.570.

Alonso then moved up into third to be 0.563 seconds off Norris’s time-topping effort in his AMR25 entry whilst Russell slotted into fifth to be 1.108 seconds adrift.

Verstappen was next with three personal bests on his soft tyre effort to end up fifth on a 1:11.218 to be 0.940 seconds off Norris’s benchmark with under 20 minutes left in the session.

Hamilton, Leclerc and Bortoleto all could not improve on their flyers with the former being impeded by an Alpine of Franco Colapinto on his flying tour.

The majority of the field then returned to the pits with 18 minutes left after their qualifying simulations to adjust their setups and put on sets of the C3 yellow-branded mediums and a heavy fuel load for long race data gathering runs before the rain expected in the afternoon for Free Practice 2.

Replays showed Stroll being held up by Tsunoda with the Canadian saying over the radio: “What the **** is he doing man?”.

Stroll however was one of the last to do a qualifying simulation run on a used set of C4’s and with three personal bests moved up to third to post a 1:10.779 to be 0.501 seconds off Norris’s effort.

Replays showed Russell suffer a lock-up and skated into the gravel as the Briton said: “Sorry about that.”

At the end of the session after doing his practice start Verstappen was shown beached in the gravel trap at Tarzan.

Replays showed Verstappen launch off the line, and suffered a massive, long lock-up into the opening corner and stuck into the gravel trap at the opening corner and the Dutchman could not get his RB21 out.

The session ended with Norris leading from team-mate Piastri in a McLaren one-two whilst the two Aston Martin’s of Stroll and Alonso followed in third and fourth respectively.

Williams’ Albon was next in fifth and in-front of home favourite Verstappen who took sixth and Russell who placed seventh.

Sainz in the second FW47 entry ended FP1 in eighth as Bortoleto and Gasly rounded out the top ten runners.

You can see the full Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2025 Free Practice 1 Results Classification at the link: FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2025 – PRACTICE 1