Alisha Palmowski converted her fourth pole position into her fourth race win of the season in the F1 ACADEMY Feature Race in Zandvoort, extending her lead at the top of the standings in the process. The Red Bull Racing driver did just enough to keep second-placed Alba Larsen behind her at the race start before the pair duelled for the majority of the race. However, Palmowski managed to stay ahead and claim her fourth victory of the 2026 season....

World Champion Lando Norris is on pole for the Dutch Grand Prix, but the McLaren man will have both Mercedes in close company when the lights go out, having narrowly beaten George Russell and Kimi Antonelli in Qualifying. Oscar Piastri lines up fourth in the second McLaren, ahead of the Ferrari duo of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc. Max Verstappen is seventh on the grid for his home race, with his stand-in Red Bull team mate Liam Lawson an impressive eighth, barely a tenth down on the Dutchman....

Lando Norris has taken his second consecutive victory of the season during an eventful Dutch Grand Prix, the Briton beating Kimi Antonelli to the win while home favourite Max Verstappen suffered a dramatic crash that resulted in the race being red-flagged. After Norris initially led away from pole position at the start, the race was halted just one lap later when Verstappen lost the rear of his Red Bull and hit the wall heavily....

Max Verstappen was unable to complete a lap of Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix at the Zandvoort Circuit, with the Red Bull driver dramatically crashing out in front of his home fans. Verstappen arrived at the event amid a wave of positivity after agreeing a contract extension that will keep him at the Milton Keynes-based team until at least the end of 2030. However, as Red Bull struggled for pace throughout the Sprint event, the four-time World Champion’s already “disappointing” weekend concluded when he rounded the final corner of his opening lap....

Payton Westcott converted pole position into her maiden F1 ACADEMY win with a lights-to-flag drive in the Reverse Grid Race at Zandvoort. The Mercedes driver started on Reverse Grid pole for the first time following the disqualification of Wild Card driver Zoe Florescu from the Qualifying session after her car was found to be in breach of the Technical Regulations. After a perfect start, Westcott kept herself out of trouble at the race start, during two Safety Car restarts and throughout the 17-lap race, winning by almost two seconds....

Lando Norris conceded that he was “a little surprised” by his pole position in Qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix, with the Briton not expecting such a turnaround having felt that he and the team had struggled earlier in the day. After losing out on P2 to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the Sprint, Norris returned to action again for Qualifying later on Saturday and McLaren soon caught the eye with their performance, both cars having looked quick during Q1....

George Russell wasn’t too disappointed to miss out on pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix, with the Mercedes driver pleased to be “back in my groove” after qualifying P2 behind Lando Norris. After converting pole to victory in the Zandvoort Sprint, Russell was firmly in contention to secure the top spot again, but ultimately lost out by 0.102s to a sublime final lap by Norris just as the rain began to fall....

Max Verstappen was confident that he had not “left anything on the table” in Qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix, with the Red Bull driver having to settle for P7 after experiencing “limitations” in the car. Having ended the Sprint in sixth earlier in the day, Verstappen tried to give his home fans something to cheer about during the afternoon’s running but was unable to match the pace of McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari, putting him in seventh place for Sunday’s race....

Lewis Hamilton has raved about the “unbelievable” improvements that Ferrari made to his car over the Dutch Grand Prix weekend, but his team mate Charles Leclerc was contrastingly left searching for answers after he endured a “less than ideal” session. The Briton didn’t enjoy a smooth start to Round 12, having felt uncomfortable in Sprint Qualifying before he failed to progress during the 24-lap event and came home in P7....

1. Norris looking to convert pole From Lando Norris chasing back-to-back victories to the Mercedes pair lining up alongside each other at the front, and from chances to shine for replacement drivers to the importance of track position, here are five things to look out for when the lights go out for the final time at Zandvoort… The Sprint went the way of George Russell on Saturday, but the last Grand Prix in Hungary saw Lando Norris take an impressive victory having started from pole position....

McLaren Norris drove well for the first half of the Sprint but then started to lose the rear as his medium tyres began to struggle with grip. That enabled Leclerc to close in and get past, Norris then having to work hard to keep a rapid Antonelli at bay. Piastri had already lost out to the Mercedes man on the opening lap, the Australian then having a slightly lonely Sprint in fifth....

McLaren are back after the summer break where they left off before it, with Lando Norris on pole by a tiny margin, after McLaren looked the class of the field across all three parts of Qualifying. But we also had a Sprint on Saturday, and the papaya cars were clearly struggling with rear grip over the longer distances. The difference between the Grand Prix and Sprint is, of course, the provision of strategy....

Liam Lawson will have an unexpected second chance at Red Bull Racing for this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, when he fills in for the injured Isack Hadjar, while Yuki Tsunoda will get another crack at Formula 1 in familiar surroundings at Racing Bulls. It comes three years after Lawson himself debuted at Zandvoort, in place of the injured Daniel Ricciardo - and marks a return to a Red Bull seat after his short-lived stint in 2025....

Stefano Domenicali believes that the news of Max Verstappen’s Red Bull contract extension has been the “cherry on the cake” of the final Dutch Grand Prix weekend, with the President and CEO of Formula 1 also speaking positively about what is still to come in the 2026 championship. As fans headed to Zandvoort for the track’s last F1 outing, it was announced on Thursday that Verstappen had signed a new deal to race for the Milton Keynes-based outfit through to the end of 2030, bringing an end to speculation over his future - something that Domenicali is very pleased about....

George Russell has claimed a commanding victory in the Sprint at the Dutch Grand Prix, the Briton converting his pole position into a win ahead of Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris. Russell had made a strong launch when the 24-lap event got underway and - despite seeing his advantage ebb and flow at times - the Mercedes driver managed to maintain a decent lead over Norris as the laps progressed....

George Russell has reflected on his dominant victory in the Zandvoort Sprint, with the Briton explaining how he relied on effective tyre management to keep rivals like Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris at bay. Starting from pole position - which he beat McLaren’s Norris to by just 0.041s in Sprint Qualifying - Russell executed a clean start at lights out to maintain the lead, where he remained for all 24 laps....