Max Verstappen Wins The Dutch Grand Prix For The First Time In His Career.
Key Sentence:
- Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton in first place at the Dutch Grand Prix by just 0.038 seconds and thus sent off the loyal home fans.
- The Red Bull driver remained in control throughout qualifying, but Hamilton improved on his final lap and missed by a narrow margin.
Valteri Botas' second Mercedes was third, ahead of Alpha Tauri and Pierre Grassley's Ferrari. Sergio Perez of Red Bull was eliminated in the first session and is 16 years old. Department of Sport: Motorsport is killing the planet - or helping to save it? Verstappen set the standard on the first lap of the final qualifying when he beat Botas by 0.299 seconds, a significant deviation from one of the shortest laps on the calendar.
But Hamilton, who managed just one lap in second practice on Friday and shortened his time for car tuning, in the end, did it trademark. Verstappen improved as he should have, as Hamilton was precisely the same thickness as the Dutchman from his first run. Verstappen revealed that he had a double rise on the lap and could not open the DR's overtaking assist at the start, both of which wasted time.
He said: "This is, of course, the best position. We know it's difficult to cross.
There are a lot of laps here, the tires struggle for the corners at high speed, but I hope to finish it tomorrow." Hamilton was booed by the 80,000 capacity when he gave an interview immediately after the session but praised the enthusiasm of local fans.
He said: "Very close. I want to thank all the orange fans here, the Dutch fans. Great place and a great track. I love coming to this country." "Max had a great tour, and I'm very close to chasing him.
"It's a difficult track to overtake but a great place to race. We haven't seen many people in a long time. It isn't easy. a track that makes it so fantastic to ride."
Throw away
More than 70,000 fans will support Verstappen every day on the race weekend. Grassley was the star, putting Alfa Tauri in fourth place ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz and Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi with another eye-catching performance that finished in seventh place.
After testing positive for coronavirus, Teammate Kimi Raikkonen was removed from the weekend and replaced by reserve pilot Robert Kubica. The Polish veteran took 18th place. Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso finished eighth and ninth, just 0.023 seconds ahead of McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo.
Lando Norris never paid attention to the qualifying pace and finished 13th, his worst qualifying position this year.