2026 Dutch Grand Prix Zandvort

[aMessageToCharlie]

Wtf is George doing?

He should be fighting kimi to get back into the championship fight, not stepping aside for him.

Career over for Russell, confirmed no2.

Russell showed super loser mentality today. First at the initial start he went over to defend against Piastri (a nobody in the WDC) instead of defending against Antonelli.

Then allowed himself to be dummied into moving over for Antonelli, that is a 6 points swing he just gifted to his teammate.

I hope lovers of "clear number 1 teams" loved that move and implications for the championship.

Yeah, spot on. It's sad to see, but he doesn't want it bad enough.

Maybe Toto made this part of his new contract as he had nowhere else to go.

[PlatinumZealot]

I did not quite understand why did they swap ANT and RUS? Kimi pitted and ended up behind RUS, nothing weird about that. Why not let RUS defend? Silver rules I guess.

ANT would have inevitably overtaken Russell and then after the fighting so would the Ferrari. So it was the best decsion to save the tyres for both Mercedes drivers.

[stephen]

That was a worthy final lap. Really gutted to see Max go out but thankfully the rest of the race was still a great watch.

[Mr5in1]

Decent race, Zandvoort does bring something different to the calendar and the cars look fantastic on the curves and crests. It’s a shame it’s dropping off the calendar but the place is hardly prawn sandwich eater friendly.

Who knows. FOM don’t seem to have venues queuing up quite the way they did a couple of years ago. Dropping to less than 24 races now would be a bit of an embarrassment.

"Prawn sandwich eater friendly" best thing I've read this weekend!!

I enjoyed this weekend I think Zandvoort is a little different (narrower, smaller, lots of elevation). I went last year and really enjoyed it very accessible and the Dutch are great

[renault rs26]

Brilliant win by Lando. He's just extracting pace that Oscar just can't seem to access.

Antonelli proving his championship luck and quality.

Russell it's just not your year.

Leclerc being very short sighted as usual. Will he ever be a champion?

What did Leclerc do wrong apart from the restart?
When Russell got team order to let Kimi pass fans complain about team orders, but when Ferrari don't make a team order fans complain for lack of team orders.