(Reuters) -Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, round 15 of the 24-race championship:
Lap distance: 4.259km. Total distance: 306.587km (72 laps)
2024 pole position: Lando Norris (Britain) McLaren, one minute 09.673 seconds
2024 race winner: Norris
Race lap record: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:11.097, 2021
Start time: 1300GMT (1500 local)
NETHERLANDS
Zandvoort returned to the calendar in 2021 for the first time since 1985. This year’s race will be the 35th world championship Dutch Grand Prix.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his home race in 2021, 2022 and 2023 from pole position.
Last year he started on the front row again and finished second — 22.8 seconds behind Norris. Verstappen has led 200 of the 288 laps raced at Zandvoort in his lifetime.
Overtaking can be a challenge, with the winner coming from pole every time since the race’s return.
The circuit opened in 1948 in the seaside dunes west of Amsterdam and is “old school” — flowing, with high-speed changes of direction and much of the lap spent cornering.
The last two banked corners have an angle steeper than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the pit lane is the season’s shortest.
The narrow and twisty track, with 14 corners, is the second shortest after Monaco. Only 55% of the lap is spent at full throttle.
CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD
Australian Oscar Piastri leads McLaren teammate Norris by nine points. Verstappen is third and 97 points off the lead.
In the constructors’ standings, McLaren (559 points) are 299 clear of second-placed Ferrari (260), with Mercedes third (236) and Red Bull fourth (194).
WINS
Hamilton has not won since his career 105th victory in Belgium on July 28, 2024.
Piastri has won six of 14 races this season, Norris five, Verstappen two and Mercedes’ George Russell one.
Verstappen has won 65 grands prix and is third on the all-time list after Michael Schumacher on 91.
McLaren have had seven one-two finishes this season, including the last four races. They have not had so many one-twos since 1988 when Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna managed 10.
POLE POSITION
Piastri, Norris and Verstappen have been on pole four times this season, Russell and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc once each.
PODIUM
The McLaren drivers have each finished on the podium 12 times in 2025.
Leclerc’s second place in Monaco remains Ferrari’s best of the season. The Monegasque now has five podiums for the season. Hamilton has yet to stand on the podium for Ferrari.
POINTS
Piastri is the only driver to have scored in every race this year. The Australian has scored for 40 race weekends in a row, if sprints are included — and in 32 successive grands prix.
Only one driver on the grid has yet to score — Alpine rookie Franco Colapinto.
MILESTONE
Tyre supplier Pirelli are celebrating their 500th world championship grand prix this weekend.
One more pole position will lift Red Bull to fifth on the sport’s all-time list on 108 and ahead of Lotus.
Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson made his F1 debut at the circuit in 2023.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)
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