2023-08-27 13:08:00
The riders are struggling with the rain and they had to enter to change tires Verstappen and Alonso who were in the first places and now the leader is Checo Pérez, who was the first to enter to put intermediate compound.
The world champion’s game was impeccable and he never risked his first place in the Dutch GP. The best start was that of Fernando Alonso, who placed third at the start, leaving George Russell behind. Lando Norris held onto second place. The rain started at the start and many drivers went into the pits to modify the tyres, since they all started with soft ones.
The teams plan their strategies in the use of tires. According to Pirelli, the ideal for the Dutch GP, without rain, would be a race with one to two stops, starting with a soft compound (C3) to go to the medium (C2) and finish the test with the red rubber.
Charles Leclerc, with his Ferrari, will start from ninth position following his accident yesterday in qualifying, which caused him to have to change the chassis, gearbox and suspension of his SF-23.
At the Dutch Grand Prix, the pit-lane, one of the narrowest of the season, has already opened, and the drivers are already doing the installation laps towards the starting grid.
The Dutchman seems to have no opposition this year in Formula 1. The world champion took his ninth pole position and the fans raved regarding him. In Zandvoort everyone expects Max Verstappen to achieve his ninth consecutive victory and reach Sebastian Vettel’s record, which he has held since 2013. When he started, he won from the Belgian GP to the Brazilian GP.
Max Verstappen will start this Sunday from the first position of the Dutch Grand Prix, in the resumption of the annual calendar following the break for the European summer. The Dutchman left British Lando Norris (McLaren) in second place. While George Russell (Mercedes) was third in the standings and Alex Albon (Williams), who came fourth, will start from the second row. Behind were the Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) in fifth and sixth place, respectively; Checo Pérez will start from seventh place.
Welcome to the minute by minute of the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix. In Zandvoort the second part of the championship begins. The circuit is 4.2 kilometers long, divided into 14 curves, of which 10 are to the right and four to the left. During the race there will be 72 laps around the circuit covering a final distance of 306.648 kilometers.
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