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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.

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…

A rapid-fire final 10 minutes, produced by improving track conditions as the morning's heavy rain subsided, ended with Verstappen embarking on a series of quick runs having found confidence on the drying circuit.

A rapid-fire final 10 minutes, produced by improving track conditions as the morning's heavy rain subsided, ended with Verstappen embarking on a series of quick runs having found much in the way of confidence on a drying track.

Lando Norris nudged ahead of home hero Max Verstappen to secure FP2's headline time at the Dutch Grand Prix, in a boisterous first day of Formula 1 action at Zandvoort.

McLaren's Lando Norris led the practice running on Friday, shading home hero Max Verstappen of Red Bull by just 0.023s.

The British driver beat home favourite Max Verstappen to the fastest time in second practice at Zandvoort, displacing the Red Bull driver who headed the first session on Friday, as F1 returned to action after its summer break. 

Running opened on the harder two compounds of tyre with the Mercedes duo emerging on top on the medium Pirelli rubber through the first laps around the undulating beachside circuit in Zandvoort - George Russell moving ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was quickest in Free Practice 1, before Norris set the fastest time of the day in FP2 at 1m11.330s, 0.023s quicker than Verstappen and Williams’s Alex Albon.