00:00Welcome back to the Formula One World Championship in 2025.
00:05Today, we resume the battle for the title at Zandvoort.
00:09The show resumes in five lights' time.
00:13The Dutch Grand Prix is underway.
00:16Oscar Piastri is looking across at his teammate and he does cut across.
00:19Piastri holds the lead.
00:20Max Verstappen sweeps around the outside of one McLaren.
00:23It won't be two because Piastri had to give him the chop
00:26and that allows Lando Norris to fly back to second place.
00:29Or does it? Around the outside and nearly dropping the car.
00:32Max Verstappen went all in to take P2 and he got it.
00:36That is what hunger looks like.
00:39He was not going to give it up.
00:41We'll send it to turn seven.
00:42High speed stop all the time.
00:43Can Norris get back that place?
00:45It looked like he'd reclaimed it.
00:47They were swapping the positions.
00:49Poor launch off the line for Lando.
00:50Gave Max Verstappen the chance.
00:52He went around the outside.
00:54Piastri defended from him.
00:55And then he very nearly spun on the opening tour.
00:58Up a place goes Max Verstappen.
01:00Down a place goes Lando Norris.
01:03And a big moment with Piastri chopping across Lando Norris
01:07and Verstappen sending it around the outside.
01:09It tells you something about his mentality.
01:11He wasn't going, okay, I'm happy that I've got one place.
01:14He was instinctively thinking, I'm going to take it around the outside.
01:17And look at that catch.
01:19Few, if any, could have held that.
01:21Almost like something you'd expect to see in the F1 movie.
01:24It's just incredible.
01:28So, we're expecting this range to be light initially,
01:31but we'll last seven to ten laps.
01:34Around the outside, trying the move, pulling the move off,
01:38but he needed, if he was going to be a contender to win this Grand Prix,
01:42Lando Norris, at the first time of asking, takes back the place.
01:46I haven't seen Max pass around the outside too many times in my life.
01:49So, a very, very good commitment there from Lando.
01:54Charles Leclerc comes for new rubber in the pit lane.
01:57Yeah, it is just that light rain.
01:59It's still falling, but it's not enough now.
02:01And I think the teams are getting more confidence that it's going to pass
02:04without significantly dampening the track.
02:08Lewis Hamilton is off the road and out of the race.
02:12Lewis, coming out of turn three, the light rain falling,
02:16and the seven-time world champion has found the barriers.
02:21Yeah, you can see on the camera, gets through the right.
02:24Well, oh, oh, that's so frustrating.
02:29It was so late in the corner as the load had built.
02:33Gets out wide, corrects, and then just ran out of road.
02:37Are you okay?
02:38Yes, I'm sorry, guys.
02:41As we go racing again, the green flag flies at Zandvoort Circuit.
02:45Looks like a nice run for the Williams.
02:48Was that Carlos Sainz there on the back of Liam Lawson as well?
02:51George Russell's looking to the inside.
02:53Not able to get past Isaac Hadja.
02:56Yeah, that was clever of Oscar.
02:57He was, you know, you're trying to second-guess when he's going to go.
03:01He can take it all the way through the final corner,
03:03but he came off, kind of went as if he was going middle track,
03:06and there's a problem.
03:07Was a contact between Lawson and Sainz because they were fighting over the positions
03:11into the first turn, and they're dropping down.
03:14They had a great run.
03:15Sainz had a brilliant run on the banking,
03:17but that has cost them both a chance of points.
03:20Carlos Sainz here in the slipstream racing, of course.
03:24As you're going to think about the outside line,
03:26and then have the right line, just the tiniest of touches.
03:32We do get a penalty.
03:34Us, 10 seconds, I will sell on the pit stop.
03:37Who gets a penalty?
03:38Me?
03:39You get.
03:40Are you joking?
03:41You're joking.
03:42I mean, it's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my life.
03:46And we always get a battle on the resumption of a virtual safety car,
03:50because it's reaction times.
03:52Charles Leclerc trying to go around the outside.
03:54Can they make it through?
03:56They bang wheels, and barging through is Charles Leclerc.
04:00Wow.
04:01That was Ollen.
04:03There was nowhere for him to go once he'd committed.
04:05That is as old school a move as you get.
04:08I cannot believe he stayed vaguely on the track.
04:11And trying to come back is George Russell.
04:13He'll try and send it around the outside.
04:15The Ferrari chops off that route.
04:16That gap was always going to close.
04:18And the Ferrari, opportunistic move, gets by.
04:22Russell will be raging.
04:25He's got so much work to do from this far back.
04:28No way around the outside.
04:29Holds it.
04:30Yeah, 10, 11, 12.
04:33He doesn't let the space.
04:35He cannot complain.
04:36He can.
04:37I mean, he'll take off track surely.
04:41A driver who's been low on confidence,
04:43Kimi Antonelli with a late lunge and 7th place.
04:48Kimi Antonelli comes in,
04:50gives up that track position
04:51and takes on the soft tyres
04:52for the final stint of the Grand Prix.
04:56Left-hand side of your screen is Antonelli
04:57in your main picture.
04:59The pit stop for Charles Leclerc and Ferrari.
05:01They're also taking on the soft tyres
05:03for the end of the Grand Prix.
05:04So let's throw it forward.
05:05What does Hajar do now?
05:07Does Hajar now have to pit?
05:09And all this domino effect
05:10is going to change things for that podium fight.
05:12It's a slow exit of the pit lane,
05:14but the Ferrari team and Charles Leclerc cover off Antonelli.
05:18Antonelli's tyres are up to the working range.
05:21Oh, he hits him!
05:22Kimi Antonelli into the side of Charles Leclerc.
05:25The Mercedes and the Ferrari make contact,
05:28and both Ferraris having drama at turn three.
05:32The safety car is out again at Zandvoort.
05:35So as we expected,
05:36it's a 10-second penalty for Kimi Antonelli.
05:40Double yellow where you are,
05:41double yellow where you are.
05:44Oh my God, man.
05:45I could not see him at all.
05:47You saved me there, man.
05:49It's okay.
05:51The top two drivers in the World Championship
05:54are bound to do battle.
05:55Verstappen putting the pressure on
05:56on the soft tyres as well.
05:58We go racing at the end of the Dutch Grand Prix.
06:01Lando Norris got the response that he needed,
06:03and they're fighting further back,
06:04but the top three in the same positions.
06:06Look at the launch off the corner.
06:07Max Verstappen gets on that soft rubber,
06:09but it is still third position
06:11for the driver that we're riding on board with
06:14at the moment.
06:16This is going to be key for the points.
06:18Ollie Behrman's got the better grip.
06:20He's got the inside line,
06:21and he's going to have eighth position.
06:23Behrman returning to the points
06:25for the first time
06:26since the Bahrain Grand Prix
06:27in the Grand Prix format.
06:30There is smoke.
06:32Lando Norris has a problem.
06:35Yeah, I think,
06:35I don't know if I'm on fire or not.
06:37It doesn't smell good.
06:38It's smoke in the cockpit.
06:40Okay, mate, we'll check it.
06:42Lando Norris is retiring
06:43from the Dutch Grand Prix.
06:45A huge moment in the World Championship,
06:48and it's Piastri, Verstappen,
06:51and on for his first podium in Formula One
06:54is Isaac Hadjar.
06:58He's on his way to tie the win tally
07:01of his mentor, Mark Webber.
07:03It's a decisive day
07:04in the Championship battle.
07:06Oscar Piastri wins the Dutch Grand Prix
07:10to extend his lead
07:12in the Formula One World Championship.
07:15It's second place for Max Verstappen.
07:17Another home podium.
07:18But what a sentence this is!
07:22Isaac Hadjar,
07:23you are P3!
07:25And he started his Formula One career
07:27in the barriers on the formation lap.
07:30Race 15!
07:31He is heading to the podium!
07:34It was cruel on Lando Norris,
07:37but the opportunity arose for Isaac Hadjar.
07:41Max Verstappen delighting the home crowd again.
07:44And after a last gasp improvement in qualifying,
07:48it is pole to the win
07:50for Oscar Piastri,
07:52a win for him and McLaren.
07:54Aaron!
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