#F1: @LandoNorris scores victory over #Antonelli, @GeorgeRussell63 in action-packed #DutchGP.

Norris Dutch GP Victory – Reigning World Champion Lando Norris scored victory ahead of Mercedes pairing Andrea Kimi Antonelli and George Russell in an action-packed Dutch GP at Zandvoort for the final time before the race drops off the Formula 1 calendar.

 

 

This was Norris’s 12^th-career victory with the upgrades McLaren have brought propelling the reigning World Constructor’s Champions well into the fight at the front.

 

Antonelli’s lead over both Russell and Hamilton in the World Driver’s Championship currently sits at 59 points as Formula 1 heads to the Championship leader’s home race at Monza in a fortnight. (242-183-183).

 

Antonelli is also going to be taking on a penalty for a new internal combustion engine at Monza.

 

In the World Constructor’s Championship standings, Mercedes holds an 87-point advantage over Ferrari as the sport heads to the Scuderia’s home Grand Prix with McLaren a further 162 behind the Silver Arrows in third. (425-338-263).

 

When the 72-lap Dutch GP began, pole-sitter Norris got a good getaway into turn one as Russell slipped behind team-mate Antonelli after suffering wheel-spin off the damp line.

 

Behind them, Max Verstappen survived a wheel-to-wheel battle with Red Bull team-mate for the weekend Liam Lawson and managed to keep the Kiwi behind.

 

Alpine’s Pierre Gasly was up to ninth place, Racing Bulls’ Arvid Lindblad was tenth and team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in 11^th.

 

Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto had dropped to 14^th.

 

Out of the final corner, home favourite Verstappen suffered a heavy crash around the damp final corner to bring out the red flag.

 

Replays showed Verstappen dipped a wheel on the white line, lost the rear and hit the wall hard. The Dutchman reported he was okay.

 

Behind the four-time World Champion, Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto also had a 360 degree spin out the final corner and managed to survive and continue.

 

Riding onboard with Hulkenberg, his team-mate spun in-front of him and kicked up so much smoke, the German was completely blinded and only just narrowly avoided hitting the Brazilian.

 

The top ten under the red flag was Norris ahead of Antonelli, Russell, Leclerc, Piastri, Hamilton, Lawson, Lindblad, Gasly and Colapinto.

 

“Race will resume in the order the field was in at the end of Lap 1,” Race Control revealed. They also said the plan was for a standing start.

 

The stewards were also investigating the turn 14 incident involving both Lindblad and Colapinto for a yellow flag infringement.

 

After a lengthy delay and Verstappen’s Ford-RBPT-powered RB22 racer and debris was cleared, Haas’s Oliver Bearman stopped betweens turns 11 and 12 on the sighting lap towards the grid.

 

“Everything broke, everything turned off,” Bearman radioed.

 

After an extra formation lap and with another standing start, pole-sitter Norris who had a fresh set of softs, almost covered Antonelli into turn one, but the championship leader made a move on the inside into Tarzan and took the lead off the McLaren.

 

Behind them, Piastri made a bold move on Russell to move up into third place as Lindblad was hit with a driver through penalty for his yellow flag infringement.

 

Antonelli on lap six held a 0.9 second lead over Norris with Piastri third, Russell fourth, Leclerc fifth, Hamilton sixth, Lawson seventh, Gasly eighth, Hulkenberg ninth whilst Colapinto completed the top ten.

 

Lap seven – Antonelli on mediums would have to pit again. So would Norris on softs. Piastri in third on the hard tyre could potentially try and make it to the end, but it would be very hard.

 

10^th-placed-Colapinto was also hit with a drive through penalty for his yellow flag infringement like Lindblad who served his.

 

The eighth tour – Antonelli was leading but he could not increase his gap to Norris behind – the McLaren driver still had Overtake Mode available. There was a small chance of a short rain shower incoming at this stage of proceedings.

 

Piastri was dropping off the front two, which would harm Russell in fourth who was seeing the race win drive away.

 

The ninth lap – Piastri was four seconds off the lead, and therefore Russell’s knew his race depends on getting past the McLaren driver.

 

Colapinto had pitted for his drive through penalty, which meant Tsunoda was in the top 10.

 

Lap 10 – Antonelli increased his lead to just over a second over Norris, removing Overtake Mode from the reigning World Champion’s arsenal.

 

The 11^th tour – Leclerc was the man to watch, he was all over the back of Russell’s Silver Arrow, only four tenths back. That was the gap he needed yesterday to overtake Norris in the Sprint.

 

Lap 12 – Antonelli was flying in clean air, he was 1.5 seconds in-front of Norris who could be minding his tyres.

 

Further back, Bortoleto – who was having an eventful afternoon – had pitted. He swapped to some C3 mediums, which was early due to a potential puncture.

 

The 13^th lap – Antonelli took another two tenths out of Norris, Piastri was 4.4 seconds behind his team-mate. Russell was 1.3 seconds further back and struggling with rear grip.

 

Leclerc and Hamilton were the two with Overtake Mode whilst Lawson, Gasly, Hulkenberg and Tsunoda rounded out the top 10 runners.

 

Lap 14 – Piastri on the harder compounds really was holding things up, allowing both Antonelli and Norris to pull clear from the Australian. Those two were battling for the win, the Australian was pushing on for a podium. Russell needed to find something fast, but instead of challenging Piastri, the Mercedes driver was falling back into the clutches of Leclerc again.

 

The 15^th tour – This was not just Norris managing his tyres in the dirty air, Antonelli was also starting to show his pace. The Italian was over two seconds ahead of Norris, but the McLaren driver was showing better race pace than he did in yesterday’s Sprint.

 

Russell had asked for ‘Original Plan A”.

 

Lap 16 – Whatever Russell wanted to do – it would either be an early stop for hards or a late stop for softs – he needed his team to make a decision, as he was going nowhere at this stage.

 

The Briton was 2.3 seconds behind Piastri, and had his wing mirrors full of red.

 

Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll had pitted further back and emerged at the rear on the harder rubber.

 

Russell pitted from fourth place on lap 18 for a fresh set of hard tyres and emerged in ninth place behind the Audi of Hulkenberg.

 

Russell crucially picked off Hulkenberg to take eighth.

 

On lap 19 – Piastri reacted to pit and suffered a slow 5.4 second pit-stop and Russell regained the net third place off the McLaren driver.

 

Hulkenberg pitted on lap 20 for a set of softer tyres and came out in 13^th place behind Gasly.

 

Up-front – Antonelli lead Norris by two seconds. Leclerc was third and flying, Hamilton holding fourth and Lawson fifth.

 

Then came Russell and Piastri in sixth and seventh respectively.

 

On the 22^nd tour- the top three of race leader Antonelli, Norris and Leclerc also pitted on a fresh set of the harder compounds (Leclerc on mediums) and emerged in second, third and sixth.

 

Lawson also stopped for a fresh set of mediums and came out in ninth place behind Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso.

 

The 23^rd tour – Hamilton remained out, so he lead the Dutch Grand Prix. Antonelli in second was flying, and he was 1.4 seconds ahead of Norris – so the reigning World Champion did lose some time in those pit stops.

 

Russell behind had Piastri glued to his rear wing.

 

On lap 24 – The Ferrari team asked Hamilton out-front for a tyre update with the seven-time World Champion reporting the tyres were ok.

 

On the 26^th lap, Hamilton pitted for a fresh set of the harder tyres and came out in sixth place behind team-mate Leclerc as Antonelli reclaimed the race lead by 1.5 seconds over Norris.

 

Lap 27 – One-stop or two-stop was the question? With a long way to go, the top seven had all pitted so that order was genuine.

 

Further back, Gasly and Lindblad were fighting hard. Hulkenberg got involved as the Frenchman locked up at turn 11 and Gasly lost two places.

 

They were battling for 11^th place.

 

The 28^th tour – The midfield fight was very entertaining, and Hulkenberg, Lindblad and Gasly were showing that overtaking was entirely possible at Zandvoort.

 

Alonso and Sainz ahead of this battle were yet-to-pit

 

Lap 29 – Tsunoda had picked off Gasly.

 

Up-front Norris had started to close in on Antonelli and was within a second of the Italian. The duo had started picking up traffic, so will need to clear the backmarkers.

 

Hamilton on his new rubber had posted a new fastest lap of the race.

 

The 30^th lap – Antonelli and Norris had made their way past Colapinto. Russell was six seconds behind the leaders; Piastri had fallen off the back of the Mercedes and had Leclerc for company.

 

Hamilton with that tyre offset was 5.8 seconds back from Ferrari team-mate Leclerc.

 

Lawson was in a race of one in seventh place.

 

The 31^st lap – Six tenths between Antonelli and Norris at the front. Whatever McLaren tweaked after the Sprint has worked to perfection thus far.

 

The pairing looked set to battle, and behind Leclerc and Piastri were locked in a duel too.

 

Lap 32 – Leclerc was likely to pull off a move. But Piastri was not putting a foot wrong in defending, and he was covering the inside line. Piastri knew where Leclerc pulled off a move in the Sprint on his team-mate Norris – and the Australian done his homework on how to defend from the Ferrari.

 

The 33^rd tour – Norris had dropped a couple of tenths, so Leclerc was the driver to watch. Four tenths of a second. That was all there is between the Ferrari and the McLaren.

 

Leclerc needed to make a move stick, as Hamilton was rapidly closing in on the pairing on fresher tyres.

 

Lap 34 – Leclerc was through. The Monegasque driver went for it into Tarzan, they were side-by-side into turn 2 and Turn 3 but Leclerc got enough grip on the outside line to make the move stick.

 

Fourth for the Ferrari driver, and Hamilton was suddenly all over the back of Piastri’s McLaren.

 

The 35^th lap – Same corner, different lap. Hamilton went for the same move as his team-mate but got through a tiny bit more easily as Piastri opted to defend less in the hopes of recharging and going again.

 

But Piastri could not close back up, and Hamilton had fifth place.

 

The 36^th tour – Race leader Antonelli was picking off backmarkers, and so was Norris who lost time as a result – the gap was sitting at 2.2 seconds.

 

Russell was a further 7.4 seconds back in third, and Leclerc was closing in on the Briton with rapid pace. The battle for the podium was not done yet.

 

Lap 37 – With Alonso and Williams’ Carlos Sainz finally pitting, Hulkenberg, Tsunoda and Gasly were back in the top 10. Lindblad was the man on the bubble in 11^th place.

 

The 38^th lap – Race leader Antonelli and Norris had made it past the backmarkers for the time being, which shook out the lead to 1.1 seconds. McLaren could be thinking of an undercut on the Mercedes, but traffic was a factor now with the field so spread out.

 

The 39^th tour – Leclerc was just 1.3 seconds behind Russell, on tyres that were four laps fresher. Hamilton was a further 2.2 seconds back, so Russell was about to have some fun with the Ferrari duo.

 

Piastri was struggling in sixth place, as he dropped well off the pace of the Ferraris.

 

Lap 40 – Norris was back within a second of Antonelli. Overtake Mode was in his grasp, but thus far he has not found anywhere to really attack the teenager ahead.

 

On lap 41 – Antonelli pitted again relinquishing the lead for another set of hards as did his Mercedes team-mate Russell for a double stack and both came out in fourth and sixth respectively.

 

The 42^nd tour – Antonelli came out behind Bortoleto – but the Brazilian ceded immediately as a lapped car.

 

Norris did not pit next time around. They did not feel the overcut will work, so they were going for a tyre offset.

 

Lap 43 – Norris remained out again. Definite tyre offset wanted from the Briton.

 

Leclerc was called in, and he stayed out and did not let his faster team-mate through. Hamilton wants team orders; Leclerc was not playing ball.

 

Antonelli was closing back up from fourth place.

 

Leclerc pitted on lap 44 for a fresh set of harder tyres and suffered a slow 3.5 second stop and emerged in sixth place behind Russell.

 

“Great waste of time there guys, good job,” came the sarcastic message from Hamilton, who lost a few seconds stuck behind his team-mate.

 

Piastri stopped on lap 45 for a set of the softer tyres and came out in seventh place behind Lawson’s Red Bull.

 

Lap 46 – “Bono I have no grip,” cried Antonelli. The Italian was on the harder tyres, which were four laps old and thus should be up to temperature. The track temperature was up to 35 Degrees Celsius, so grip should not be too much of an issue.

 

Antonelli was 3.7 seconds behind Hamilton and 15.1 seconds behind Norris, both of those two were likely to pit again.

 

The 48^th lap – Norris pitted from the lead for a fresh set of harder compounds and came out in third place behind Antonelli – further back Gasly also stopped for some mediums and was back out in 11^th place behind Tsunoda.

 

The 49^th tour – Hamilton ran a long first stint and thus could go deeper in this second stint too. He lead by 2.5 seconds from Antonelli, who knows what he had to do to the end of the race.

 

This one was going to go down to the wire, with Norris hunting his prey.

 

Lap 50 – Leclerc was the fastest out on the track, but then Norris was flying. The Briton was just 3.2 seconds behind Antonelli.

 

Up-front, Hamilton was asked what tyre he wants to which he responded: “You have the data, you tell me”.

 

The 51^st tour – Hamilton was still out there in the lead and would likely come out behind Leclerc when he did pit – a repeat of the earlier scenario, when a faster, fresher shod Hamilton will be all over the back of his Ferrari team-mate.

 

Lap 52 – Antonelli had been caught by Norris, and the Italian told Mercedes that he had no rear grip. Not ideal when he still had plenty of laps to defend on.

 

The 53^rd lap – Antonelli was close enough to Hamilton to have Overtake Mode with which to defend from a flying Norris.

 

Hamilton was still out there, and there was no guarantee he would definitely pit – with Russell 8.7 seconds behind, that could be the way Ferrari grab a podium.

 

Lap 54 – Tarzan Corner, Norris made it stick but nearly hit Hamilton as Norris cut back between the two cars.

 

Norris was past Antonelli on merit and could be heading for back-to-back Grand Prix victories. That was a solid move.

 

Lap 55 – the Virtual Safety Car was brought out for Ocon who was stuck on-track. “Are you using me as a guinea pig?” asks a disgruntled Hamilton as the Briton and his Ferrari team-mate Leclerc both pitted for a set of softs.

 

Hamilton came out in fourth place behind Russell and Leclerc behind his team-mate.

 

Piastri also boxed for a set of softs and emerged in sixth.

 

The 57^th lap – Mercedes opted to pit race leader Antonelli who came in for a set of softer tyres and the championship leader rejoined behind his team-mate Russell.

 

After Ocon’s VF-26 entry was cleared and the VSC ended on lap 58 – “Do you think we need to take it? Feeling a bit nervous now,” Norris radioed before the VSC ended, but it was too late, the VSC was done and the McLaren driver could no longer get a cheap stop.

 

So, Norris lead by 6.2 seconds from Russell, with Antonelli a further 6.3 seconds back.

 

At the restart, Gasly had picked off Tsunoda for the final point spot. The duo had been fighting all afternoon.

 

The 59^th tour – This was all about whether Antonelli can chase back to Russell and then Norris, and whether the Ferrari drivers could follow him. Antonelli had already taken a second out of his team-mate Russell.

 

Lap 60 – Antonelli took another second out of Russell, who in turn was making no progress back up to Norris.

 

Behind them, Hamilton was 2.4 seconds behind the Italian, and Leclerc was 5.9 seconds back.

 

Stroll had retired from the race by the way, joining the two Haas drivers and Verstappen.

 

The 61^st lap – Norris was 8.7 seconds ahead of Russell. But Antonelli was just 3.8 seconds back. Second place was in danger for Russell, who has had a bit of a difficult race all things, so a podium would be a good result for the Briton.

 

Further back, Alonso was running ninth having not taken a third pit stop. The Spaniard was 2.5 seconds in-front of Gasly.

 

Lap 62 – Antonelli was catching Russell, that was certain. But in the fight for the win, Norris and Antonelli were lapping at the same pace. And with the laps counting down, Norris could just be too far up the road for the Italian to catch.

 

The 64^th tour – Antonelli was just 1.8 seconds behind his team-mate Russell, and Hamilton could see both of them – the Ferrari driver was 2.1 seconds further back.

 

But up-front, Norris was matching Antonelli’s pace. That win is still in Norris’s grasp.

 

The 65^th tour – Bottas had been told to retire his car to be the fifth casualty of the race.

 

And Russell was told to invert the cars to let the soft-running Antonelli through, so team orders with the two on different strategies.

 

“Is he fighting for the win?” asked Russell and the Briton let Antonelli by.

 

Lap 66 – Antonelli was 11.5 seconds behind Norris.

 

Russell told his team “we have lost a double podium here.” And the Briton might not be wrong, as Hamilton was already all over the back of his former team-mate.

 

The situation on lap 67 – Norris lead by 11.2 seconds from Antonelli, so no, the Italian did not look set to fight for the win.

 

Russell was third and had a fresher shod Hamilton on his tail in the battle for the final podium place.

 

Leclerc also could catch Russell before the end of the race.

 

Piastri was a lonely sixth place, Lawson a lonely seventh whilst Hulkenberg looks assured of eighth.

 

The 68^th tour – Gasly had Overtake Mode on Alonso by the way in the fight for ninth place. Tsunoda in 11^th was a further 3.6 seconds back, as his 24-lap old softs started to go off.

 

Colapinto had a 10-second time penalty for his second yellow flag infringement.

 

The Virtual Safety Car was deployed briefly on lap 70 for debris out on track with replays showing an intra-team Williams clash, and that was where the debris came from.

 

Lawson was hit with a 10-second time penalty, but he was eight seconds ahead of Hulkenberg behind.

 

The penultimate lap – Norris was going to win from Antonelli.

 

But could Hamilton get past Russell for the final podium slot was the question?

 

Seven tenths separated those two, and Hamilton was not going to have many chances to make it stick.

 

The final lap – Norris was heading for the win with a 10.8 second lead over Antonelli.

 

Sainz had been hit with a 10-second time penalty for causing the collision with his team-mate Albon.

 

And Hamilton had a look at Russell into Tarzan, but Russell kept his nose in-front.

 

Norris crossed the line to score back-to-back victories and by 11.536 seconds over Antonelli as Russell completed the top three for Mercedes.

 

Hamilton was the lead Ferrari in fourth ahead of Leclerc as Piastri ended the Grand Prix sixth.

 

Lawson came home seventh in the sole Red Bull and in-front of Hulkenberg who was eighth.

 

Alonso in the upgraded Aston Martin took two points for the Silverstone-based outfit in ninth as Gasly rounded out the top ten for Alpine.

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2026 Dutch GP – The Top Three

 

 

2026 Dutch GP Winner – Lando Norris, #1, McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team-Mercedes, MCL40 – (25 Points):

“Amazing, amazing. A tough race. I made it tough for myself, but a good race, well fought. Probably one of my better wins. Over the moon, very, very happy and nice to win the final race here in Zandvoort. The move [on Antonelli] was good, I knew I wouldn’t get many chances. I saw Lewis defending and I knew that was my moment. That move won me the race.”

 

2^nd Place – Andrea Kimi Antonelli, #12, Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team, F1 W17 – +11.536s – (18 Points):

“Was a very intense race. Managed to get the lead, but on stint two onwards, I didn’t have the feeling with the car. I was sliding a lot, Lando passed me and I knew I had no chance after that. George was a good team player, and I’m glad he held onto third. Now as a team, we need to find some time as McLaren have done a huge step.”

 

3^rd Place – George Russell, #63, Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team, F1 W17 – +15.906s – (15 Points):

“Difficult start for me, losing the position. These two were very quick at the beginning, and then it was tough to hold on those old tyres. Happy to be here on the podium, as it could have gone either way. Kimi was ahead of me anyway, and he deserved to finish ahead. On the new tyre he would have got past anyway. A strong weekend overall, so taking the positives.”

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Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2026 Race Results Classification (72 Laps)

 

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time / Retired	Pts.
1	1	Lando Norris	McLaren	72	2:4:44.859	25
2	12	Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	72	+11.536s	18
3	63	George Russell	Mercedes	72	+15.906s	15
4	44	Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	72	+16.755s	12
5	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	72	+17.258s	10
6	81	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	72	+32.332s	8
7	30	Liam Lawson	Red Bull Racing	72	+79.915s	6
8	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	71	+1 lap	4
9	14	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	71	+1 lap	2
10	10	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	71	+1 lap	1
11	22	Yuki Tsunoda	Racing Bulls	71	+1 lap	0
12	41	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	71	+1 lap	0
13	5	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	71	+1 lap	0
14	43	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	70	+2 laps	0
15	11	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	70	+2 laps	0
16	55	Carlos Sainz	Williams	70	+2 laps	0
17	23	Alexander Albon	Williams	66	DNF	0
NC	77	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	61	DNF	0
NC	31	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	52	DNF	0
NC	18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	45	DNF	0
NC	87	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	2	DNF	0
NC	3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	0	DNF	0

 

* Provisional results. Note – Colapinto and Lawson received 10-second time penalties for failing to slow for yellow flags. Sainz received a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision.

https://www.formula1.com/en/results/2026/races/1292/netherlands/race-result

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