- Red Bull driver takes lead in title race after winning from pole
- Valtteri Bottas is third, Pierre Gasly finishes fourth
Max Verstappen won the Dutch Grand Prix with an absolutely commanding drive from pole position in front of his home crowd at Zandvoort. He is the first Dutch driver to win the Dutch GP since its Formula One debut in 1952 and was flawless in delivering a dominant run that left no chance for Lewis Hamilton to challenge, with the world champion finishing in second. His Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas was third, with AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly in fourth and Charle Leclerc in fifth for Ferrari.
Red Bull driver Verstappen has retaken the title lead with his seventh win this year and enjoyed the real kickstart to the second half of the season he wanted in front of a 70,000-strong crowd of enthusiastic orange-clad fans. With F1 back in the Netherlands for the first time since 1985 when Niki Lauda won, this was the result the fans and promoters of the race desperately wanted. More than a million had applied for tickets, hundreds more lined the fences in the dunes outside for a glimpse of the cars in the distance and for those lucky enough to make it they revelled in a haze of orange smoke and noisy celebration.