Dutch Grand Prix Qualifying Round-up

Qualifying started of in a dramatic fashion with Aston Martins Lance Stroll at the final corner, turn 13 dropping his front left wheel into the grass and sent spinning through the gravel and hitting the barrier at the top of the banking, breaking his front wing and just managing to limp back to the pits but with more damage on the left hand side, Stroll did not come out for a final lap and that was his qualifying over and out in P20.

Ollie Bearman made a mistake on his last run in Q1 which put him into the drop zone and with everyone improving knocked him out in P19 along with teammate Ocon in P18 respectively. Tuki Tsunoda found himself in the bottom 5 aswell and squeezed in a solid lap to take him to P12 and through in to Q2. Lawson set a great time to take him in to the top 5. Piastri and Norris 1 and 2 for the moment as the session concluded. Colapinto, Hulkenburg, Ocon, Bearman and the damaged Aston of Stroll all exit Q1.

The start of Q2 was interesting to say the least. A fox found it's way on to the circuit on the entry of turn 10 and ran across the track, luckily there was no one around and was out of the way before Leclerc's Ferrari came across it. He reported it on the radio. McLaren stayed 1 and 2 at the end of Q2 followed by the Ferrari pair, headed by Hamilton this time and Russell in P6.

After that it was all to play for and the slenderest of margins could make the difference Bortoleto sneaked into P10, then taken away by Gasly before Sainz put in a great effort to make the top 10, being joined by both Racing Bulls - an amazing effort from the youngest duo on the grid and the oldest man on the grid, Fernando Alonso who put in a lap right at the end, good enough for P7 unfortunately knocking down Antonelli to P11 after looking for a better quali session found himself out of Q2 with a "little mistake in the chicane" he explained to the media after Q2. He was followed by Tsunoda - another Q2 knockout as well, Bortoleto, Gasly and Albon. From 10th to 15th was 2 tenths of a second showing how close the midfield is at the end of these regulations.

Q3 started off competitive with Norris and Piastri going toe-to-toe, both looking for provisional pole and Piastri took the better of Norris on this occasion which was surprising as it seemed Norris had the better of Piastri all weekend up until this point. The gap was 0.012 between the papaya pair. Verstappen slotted in to P3 and Russell a little further back time wise in P4.

Neither McLaren improved on their last run in Q3 which could have been caused by a wind change that could have made it more tricky to find time. Verstappen with a purple middle sector secured P3, 2 and a half tenths off the inevitable McLaren pace. Isack Hadjar had a statement of a result in P4, beating out Russell with his teammate Lawson in P8 too. Ferrari in P6 and P7 headed by Leclerc this time with a good quali for Sainz in P9 and Alonso finishing out the top 10.

Oscar Piastri takes his 5th pole of the season. A really needed result for him as Lando has had the edge over him in the last 3 races.

This is the full Dutch Grand Prix Qualifying session result: