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1. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 2. Lando Norris (McLaren), 3. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

Everything seemed to fall into place for Alpine’s Nina Gademan as she led every lap of her home race to take her first victory in F1 ACADEMY, beating Lia Block and Maya Weug to the chequered flag.

Saturday brought another thrilling battle between McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, while Isack Hadjar starred for Racing Bulls and Lance Stroll hit trouble in his Aston Martin. Here are all of the facts and stats you need to know about from Qualifying in the Netherlands...

Oscar Piastri pipped McLaren team mate Lando Norris to pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix on Saturday.

M-Sport Ford’s double Rally Paraguay retirement was caused by the same piece of bedrock, according to team principal Richard Millener.
The World Rally Championship squad were dealt a cruel blow on Saturday morning as the pair of Ford Pumas driven by Josh McErlean and Gregoire Munster were forced into retirement with identical problems.
It appears a piece of bedrock in the Carmen del ...Keep reading

Lando Norris says he will "see what I can dream of tonight" as he attempts to beat McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to victory in Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.

Lando Norris says he will "see what I can dream of tonight" as he attempts to beat McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to victory in Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.

Lando Norris says he will "see what I can dream of tonight" as he attempts to beat McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to victory in Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.

It was 'Heim Time' once again as the NASCAR Truck Playoffs began at Darlington. Earning his eighth win of the 2025 season, Corey Heim has already guaranteed his advancement into the next round.
Heim has now won four of the last five Truck races on the schedule, and the TRICON driver has already reached 19 career victories.
"I felt like the No. 34 [Riggs] and the No. 38 [Smith] were really ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli reckons his incident in opening practice for the Dutch Grand Prix was the root cause of his poor qualifying result.
The 19-year-old only qualified 11th at Zandvoort, after understeering off at Turn 9 in FP1 which beached his Mercedes in the gravel and brought an early end to his session.
Team-mate George Russell qualified fifth, meanwhile, so ...Keep reading

Ott Tanak’s World Rally Championship title bid suffered a blow as a puncture derailed his Rally Paraguay victory hopes, while Kalle Rovanpera began to pull clear at the front.
Toyota’s Rovanpera benefitted from Tanak’s woes as the Finn completed Saturday morning’s four stages with a 16.7s lead over Hyundai’s Adrien Fourmaux, while Sebastien Ogier climbed to third [+17.2s].
WRC ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc has offered a damning assessment of his qualifying performance at the Dutch Grand Prix, with the Ferrari Formula 1 driver down in sixth. 
Leclerc has been off the pace all weekend with the Monegasque not yet finishing a session above sixth, continuing Ferrari’s difficult 2025 season thus far with it far behind leader McLaren. 
The Monegasque revealed Ferrari made “a ...Keep reading

Lance Stroll has given a downbeat assessment of his prospects for the Dutch Grand Prix after a spin into the barriers during Qualifying put him out of the session, meaning that he will line up at the back of the grid in P20.

Isack Hadjar registered the best Qualifying result of his fledgling Formula 1 career, as he set the fourth-fastest time on Saturday.

Max Verstappen hailed his Qualifying performance for the Dutch Grand Prix as "the best I've felt all weekend", with the home hero set to start third on the grid in Sunday's race.

Oscar Piastri snatched pole position at the Dutch Grand Prix from his McLaren team mate Lando Norris in an entralling Qualifying session at Zandvoort.

Oscar Piastri expressed his satisfaction after delivering when it mattered during Qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix – the Australian pipping McLaren team mate and title rival Lando Norris to pole position.

Oscar Piastri has sealed pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix after beating McLaren team mate Lando Norris in a thrilling battle that played out through to the closing moments of Qualifying.

Live coverage of the Formula 1 Qualifying session for the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort.

In his 19th playoff appearance,  Denny Hamlin earned pole position with a speedy 28.694s lap. He will share the front row with Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe, who was attempting’ to sweep qualifying at all four crown jewel races this year. He ended up 0.021s shy of accomplishing that feat, telling truTV: "that one will sting for a while" after just missing out.
"It turned," smiled ...Keep reading