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Eventful Sunday at Zandvoort George Russell finished the Dutch Grand Prix P4 with Kimi Antonelli crossing the line P6 but being relegated to P16 due to a 15-second time penalty. With a light risk of rain, both drivers started the race on the Medium compound tyre. Both drivers lost positions on the opening lap, with […]

Lando Norris went quickest in the final practice session for the 2025 FIA Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix, beating McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by more than two tenths of a second as Mercedes’ George Russell took third place, eight tenths of a second off the pace with a best time set on Medium tyres.  The […]

DRIVERS 1 – Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren) 2 – Lando NORRIS (McLaren) 3 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing)    PARC FERMÉ INTERVIEWS (Conducted by Jolyon Palmer)   Q: Max Verstappen, third place, again in the top three in qualifying at your home race. The crowd love it. What a lap at the end. You looked like you were […]

Oscar Piastri took pole for the Dutch Grand Prix just 0.012s ahead of McLaren team-mate and chief title rival Lando Norris at the end of a closely fought qualifying session at Zandvoort. Home hero Max Verstappen will start third just ahead of impressive rookie Isack Hadjar.  Piastri had trailed team-mate Norris through the practice sessions, […]

The eight-time world champion started the day fourth overall and 17.8sec behind overnight leader Rovanperä, but delivered a masterclass in tactical rallying to emerge with a 10.3sec advantage over Adrien Fourmaux heading into Sunday’s decisive four stages. Ogier’s charge gathered momentum throughout Saturday as his tactical gamble of carrying only five tyres versus his rivals’ […]

Challenging Qualifying at Zandvoort George Russell qualified P5 with Kimi Antonelli P11 for Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix. The day started with a drying track for the third Free Practice session, enabling our drivers to complete their single lap work ahead of Qualifying. With a short lap time, and a competitive order in FP3, Qualifying was […]

F1 title contender Lando Norris topped the opening practice session for the Dutch Grand Prix, outpacing McLaren team-mate and championship leader Oscar Piastri by almost three tenths of a second as Formula 1 returned to action at Zandvoort following the sport’s summer break.  In cool and blustery conditions, Piastri set the pace in the opening […]

TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Toto WOLFF (Mercedes), James VOWLES (Williams), Flavio BRIATORE (Alpine)   Q: James, if we could start with you. Let’s start by talking about the business here in Zandvoort this weekend. The team has been very quick here these past two seasons. How’s it looking this year? James VOWLES: The good news is it […]

McLaren’s Lando Norris made it a clean sweep of Friday practice sessions by beating Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso to top spot in a second practice session for the 2025 FIA Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix that was twice halted for crashes involving Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and Williams’ Alex Albon. Championship leader Oscar Piastri finished […]

Frenchman Fourmaux dominated Friday’s action, leading for most of the day with a composed drive that put him on early the road to what would be a maiden WRC victory. But 3.5 kilometres from the finish of the penultimate stage, a rock impact punctured one of his Hyundai i20 N Rally1’s tyres and handed the […]

Season resumes on Friday at Zandvoort The team returned to racing following the mandatory summer shutdown with Friday practice at Zandvoort. Today’s sessions were focused on understanding tyre and balance limitations on a day that threatened wet weather but ultimately stayed dry. Both drivers started FP1 on C3 tyre compound, focused on single lap work. […]

PART ONE – Ollie BEARMAN (Haas), Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing), Gabriel BORTOLETO (Kick Sauber)   Q: Max, can we start with you, please? So, back to business, 10 races to go. What’s your mindset coming into the second half of this 2025 season? Max VERSTAPPEN: Just try to make the best of it. Every […]

The team becomes the first on the grid to use an electric truck to transport its cars to a European race weekend. Following a successful pilot at the British Grand Prix in July, the team’s W16 race cars have been transported from Brackley to Zandvoort – a 673km journey – using an all-electric Mercedes-Benz Trucks […]

Top Fuel – Callin narrowly leads JonesAfter her victory at Tierp Arena, Susanne Callin leads the FIA European Top Fuel standings with a narrow two-point advantage over Liam Jones. The two RF Motorsport teammates have been closely matched all season, and the fight is expected to continue at Hockenheim. Adding even more excitement, reigning FIA […]

The penultimate round of the six-event series has attracted an impressive 29-car entry with eight Rally 2 machines at the front of a field that will see competitors from eight nations tackling 11 demanding asphalt stages in the mountains and valleys to the north and east of Beirut. The stages are tricky, specialised, often bumpy […]

DATE TIME DRIVER / TEAM MEMBER Thursday, 28 August 1330hrs  1400hrs Oliver Bearman (Haas)Gabriel Bortoleto (Kick Sauber)Max Verstappen (Red Bull) Lando Norris (McLaren)Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)Alex Albon (Williams) Friday, 29 August Press Conference: 1430hrs TV Pen: 1500hrs Flavio Briatore (Alpine)Toto Wolff (Mercedes)James Vowles (Williams) Saturday, 30 August Post-Qualifying Top three fastest drivers Sunday, 31 August Post-Race First three finishing drivers  

       

The second half of the season will see teams returning to the windy Zandvoort circuit. Toto Talks Netherlands We’re ready to get back racing this weekend at Zandvoort. We start the run to the end of the season, and this current era of regulations, determined to end both strongly. It will be an intense 10 […]

Hearing Case ICA-2025-01: Appeal lodged by SRP Racing Shop (Formula K SRP Factory Team) against Decision No. 83 dated 17 May 2025 of the Stewards of the 2025 KZ European Championship event which took place in Valencia (Spain). On 17 May 2025, during Qualifying Heat 1 of the 2025 KZ European Championship in Valencia, Driver […]

A win in heat three helped Veiby to climb from fourth to third in the intermediate classification, behind weekend pace-setter Kristoffersson and Grönholm, with Kevin and Timmy Hansen as well as Juha Rytkönen – the Suonenjoki native driving the only combustion-engined entry in the field at the KymiRing, in his sustainably-fuelled, PGRX-run Hyundai i20 – […]