It was expected to be an extremely close and entertaining qualifying at Zandvoort, and although the former didn't happen, the latter did. Lando Norris returned from the summer break with plenty of speed, even snatching pole from Max Verstappen at the circuit where he has always done so.
Qualifying was also full of surprises, as Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton were eliminated in Q2. At the same time, Fernando Alonso maintained his good performance, being ‘first of the rest’, which here took him to seventh.
Qualifying was also full of surprises, as Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton were eliminated in Q2. At the same time, Fernando Alonso maintained his good performance, being ‘first of the rest’, which here took him to seventh.
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00:00The classification of the Grand Prix of the Netherlands was prepared as a super equalization after what was seen in the free practices.
00:07It seemed that there was going to be a lot of intensity and indeed we have had that in Zandvoort,
00:13so we are going to tell you what has happened in this classification of the Grand Prix of the Netherlands in dry conditions,
00:19because although there was a possibility that it was going to rain, since this morning the probability had decreased a lot.
00:25There was a possibility that at the end of the Q3 it could rain, so we'll see if it ends up raining.
00:30All eyes are on the local hero Max Verstappen,
00:35all this stand would roar if Verstappen manages to take the pole,
00:39also the eyes on a Logan Sartjan who was still in doubt that he could compete in this classification
00:45after the strong accident he had in the free practice,
00:47but the truth is that because of how they were still fixing the car, it was clear that they were not arriving,
00:52so they were already thinking more about tomorrow.
00:54The session started completely dry, there is no problem in this sense,
00:59and the session started with a Nico Hülkenberg who was the first to go out and the first to mark the fast lap.
01:06We got on the front wing of a Carlos Sainz that Ferrari is not feeling at all comfortable
01:12and in the first lap Sainz was only enough to be seventh.
01:15Look who is leading the time table, Stroll, which is not unreal,
01:20Stroll has really been quite strong, as we will see, especially in the first sector.
01:25Checo Pérez closed his lap and was in third position,
01:29Leclerc managed to surpass Checo Pérez by thousands,
01:32but he was still behind Lance Stroll and even Alexander Albon.
01:36Oscar Piastri already went down from there to the Canadian driver to get in first position.
01:42And getting in the Landon Norris' car we have this gyroscopic camera
01:47that, especially in the curves with Peraltes, could be seen very well.
01:51And he was in second position, two thousandths of Hamilton's time,
01:56who had started this Q1 very well.
01:59By the way, Norris' time was also conditioned,
02:01he had a small setback, we are seeing it in the exit of curve 7,
02:05in the exit of curve 10, so this was also a little conditioned.
02:09We now get in the car of Alexander Albon from the onboard
02:12to see him get a little better time for fifth position
02:16and Verstappen, who was one of the only drivers who still needed to close his lap,
02:21was third, to 18 thousandths of Hamilton.
02:25The first three drivers in less than 20 thousandths,
02:28and we already know Hamilton-Norris, two thousandths of difference.
02:31Sainz was still trying to improve his time, but it was still quite bad times,
02:35it was only enough for him to be tenth second.
02:37Gasly, who improved a little more and was in fifth position.
02:40Russell was not feeling comfortable in the Q1 either,
02:43he was in ninth position.
02:45Hülkenberg was ascending to the seventh place.
02:48And we also saw a moment of impeding between Checo Pérez and Hamilton,
02:52which will be investigated post-qualifying.
02:54Checo Pérez has complained a lot about this action he has had.
02:57I, honestly, do harm him, he is in the middle of the ideal layout
03:03and that is what can harm Hamilton,
03:05but he really went to the outside as much as possible.
03:07It is a complicated curve, and if you go to the outside you harm him
03:12but if you go to the inside you harm him at the exit,
03:15because this curve is drawn where Hamilton is right now
03:17and then going to the inside, which is the outside of the next curve.
03:21It is a complicated point, perhaps Hamilton can be saved from sanction
03:25due to what we say, there was no more space where to go
03:29and wherever you went, at some point you were going to block Checo Pérez.
03:33But this has harmed Checo a lot,
03:35Hamilton said he has taken himself out of the way,
03:38it has harmed him a lot because Checo had to abort this lap
03:41and put on a new tire, which has harmed him in Q3.
03:45I, Russell, who said he did not find grip,
03:47that's why he was not feeling comfortable
03:49and we see the difference between Hamilton and Russell at this point
03:51where each one is gaining time,
03:53where especially Hamilton, the truth is that he only gains time in the curves
03:57and that was enough for him to be half a second ahead.
04:00The pilots went to the second attempt with a Lance Stroll
04:03who was one of the first to leave the track
04:05and he was still going pretty well, ascending to the fourth position.
04:09Fernando Alonso also left at that moment
04:11and along with him many other pilots who were leaving
04:14even having a moment in which we had a bit of traffic
04:18at the exit of the pitlane.
04:20But there was enough time, Magnus improved to the sixth position,
04:23we see now at this point Alonso improving to the fourth place,
04:27Carlos Sainz, who now manages to close a good time,
04:30gets in the first position, Leclerc behind him in second place,
04:34we see Russell who snatches the first positions from the Ferraris
04:37and Checo does the same, he was in the sixteenth position at this moment,
04:41he needed to improve and gets 43 thousandths ahead of George Russell.
04:47Esteban Ocon, who has fallen, is one of those who have been eliminated,
04:50he has complained a lot because the car did not feel comfortable
04:53and the eliminated have been the following
04:55with Daniel Ricciardo in the sixteenth position,
04:57or with, as we told you, the seventeenth,
05:00and the two Sauber-Bottas in the eighteenth position,
05:02Zou, one second behind his teammate,
05:05in the nineteenth position, of course, Sarjane,
05:07who has not made it to the classification.
05:10The Q2 started with the two Ferrari drivers being the first to leave,
05:13being the only ones, rather,
05:15they used a used soft tire,
05:17and Sainz was first, Leclerc snatched the first position,
05:20Sainz's lap was not quite good,
05:22he had some problem, some countersteering,
05:24as we are seeing in this curve 10,
05:26and it is what, above all, making drift at this moment,
05:29it caused Sainz's lap to be even worse,
05:31but come on, the times of the Ferrari will go down.
05:34The rest of the drivers left,
05:36who had not yet left,
05:38Verstappen began to ask about the rain,
05:40and they told him that there was some rain in the air,
05:42but the truth is that we see the radar
05:44and there was no rain yet,
05:46it was going to take a while,
05:48the radar just indicates that the rain is right now in the sea,
05:51it is to the left of the image and it still has to arrive,
05:53it would end up arriving, but the doubt was whether it would arrive for the Q3.
05:56Piastri was first,
05:58a second ahead of the Ferrari,
06:00the time of the Ferrari was very bad,
06:02Verstappen second,
06:04three tenths behind Oscar Piastri,
06:06and Norris improved by nine thousandths
06:08the time of his teammate.
06:10Checo Pérez, who was in fifth position,
06:12six tenths behind Lando Norris,
06:14three tenths behind his teammate,
06:16even behind Lance Stroll.
06:18Alonso was also behind both Checo
06:20and his teammate,
06:22in sixth position,
06:24Alonso was costing him,
06:26especially the first sector,
06:28because the first sector of Stroll
06:30has been a real barbarity,
06:32at the level of McLaren,
06:34he was doing Stroll in the first sector,
06:36then in the rest of the circuit he was losing time,
06:38there Alonso reminded him a little,
06:40but the first sector of Stroll is a barbarity.
06:42Russell, who was third,
06:44now feeling more comfortable with Morado in the last sector
06:46and Hamilton in fifth position.
06:48Sainz, who despite improving his time
06:50and with new tires,
06:52is in ninth position.
06:54Leclerc is also a barbarity,
06:56but a little better,
06:58he is in sixth position.
07:00The pilots were returning to the track
07:02preparing to go out again,
07:04we see the difference between Norris and Verstappen,
07:06the truth is that Norris is far superior,
07:08except in certain aspects where it was Max Verstappen.
07:10We see the sky, which is already a little cloudy,
07:12but it was still not raining,
07:14it gave us the realization that today
07:1621 years since the first victory of Fernando Alonso
07:18in Hungary in 2003,
07:20they would now go to the track.
07:22Up in Pierre Gasly's car,
07:24Checo Pérez manages to improve,
07:26he gets fourth and secures the place,
07:28so far they had only not gone to the track
07:30and they were not going to leave.
07:32Verstappen, Russell and both McLaren.
07:34Carlos Sainz, up in his single-seater,
07:36let's see what position he ends up in.
07:38Alonso's lap improves slightly,
07:40but it is not enough,
07:42he is eighth and in danger of being eliminated.
07:44Nico Hülkenberg hurt him a bit,
07:46Sainz also hurt him,
07:48both managed to find him
07:50and Sainz's lap is even worse
07:52and he is in ninth position,
07:54despite the purple in the last sector,
07:56so in a very dangerous area,
07:58because we see Stroll leaving the elimination zone
08:00back from Lance Stroll
08:02with that first sector that the guy nails
08:04and has managed to get into that fourth position
08:06and right now Sainz is tenth,
08:08by the way,
08:10Hamilton tenth second, which is not enough,
08:12Hamilton is out,
08:14with the second best car possibly,
08:16Hamilton has been eliminated
08:18in the Q2
08:20without being able to improve his time.
08:22Charles Leclerc is missing,
08:24will he kick out his teammate
08:26or will he finally be eliminated in the Q2?
08:28One of the two Ferraris is going to be left out
08:30and Leclerc has not been.
08:32Leclerc manages to close a good lap,
08:34manages to climb to sixth position,
08:36so Hamilton was eliminated
08:38and Carlos Sainz too.
08:40Sainz complained a bit about Hülkenberg,
08:42who had provoked them.
08:44Sainz was in the lead
08:46and he could not evaporate
08:48in a very narrow circuit.
08:50They showed us some repetitions
08:52of both Hamilton and Sainz.
08:54Hamilton has climbed a bit of understeer,
08:56in the case of Carlos,
08:58already in the first corner,
09:00he had to countersteer,
09:02he has not been comfortable at all.
09:04The eliminated have been Sainz in tenth place,
09:06Hamilton tenth second,
09:08Oda thirteenth, Hülkenberg fourteenth
09:10and Magnussen fifteenth.
09:12They are clearly Sainz and Hamilton.
09:14They are the ones who have managed
09:16to overtake Albon and Pierre Gasly.
09:18So that was the Q2
09:20and the Q3 is about to start.
09:22Last moment of the weekend,
09:24Norris, who comes first,
09:26will be able to overtake Max Verstappen
09:28in his home.
09:30Oscar Piazza is one of the first to do it,
09:32he is followed by Verstappen, Norris,
09:34Charles Leclerc,
09:36Rasel and Gasly,
09:38Leclerc and Gasly,
09:40the rest did have a new tire
09:42to be able to use in the first attempt of Q3,
09:44so they have done it with that new tire.
09:46Piazzi, who comes first,
09:48Verstappen, second,
09:50can't get ahead of the Australian driver
09:52and Norris manages to do it
09:54to his teammate,
09:56he gets in that first position.
09:58Leclerc, as I say, with Usado,
10:00is fourth, he can't improve the time of any of them.
10:02We see Gasly, who doesn't improve
10:04Charles Leclerc's time either,
10:06and Rasel manages to improve the time of all of them,
10:08he manages to get fourth,
10:10only behind Verstappen and McLaren.
10:12We see Verstappen,
10:14who talked about checking the ground,
10:16because he touched the piano a lot
10:18at the exit to the main straight,
10:20but he didn't have any damage.
10:22We see the difference between Norris and Verstappen,
10:24being even bigger than the one we saw before.
10:26Only Verstappen in that second sector
10:28is faster, in the rest of the circuit
10:30is Landon Norris.
10:32The two Aston Martins came out,
10:34the only ones who came out here in the middle of the session,
10:36they didn't have a new tire,
10:38the rest of the riders who didn't come out
10:40also only had a new tire,
10:42but they waited a bit more.
10:44The Aston Martins didn't want to play,
10:46and Stroll, being the first one to come out,
10:48gets sixth.
10:50Not the best lap that the two Aston Martins
10:52could have done,
10:54with the Aston Martins on top of the new tires,
10:56he was hoping to stay ahead of Leclerc,
10:58but we'll see if he manages to do it.
11:00Fernando Alonso, who hadn't done better
11:02in the first sector than his teammate,
11:04in the second sector he wasn't bad either,
11:06and in the third sector he was pretty good,
11:08and he was fifth in front,
11:10at least, of Charles Leclerc and his teammate.
11:12Now, all the riders,
11:14except the Aston Martins who were already in boxes,
11:16came out with new tires,
11:18Alonso reported on the radio
11:20that he couldn't do more than what he had already done,
11:22Verstappen started the lap,
11:24he was first,
11:26he momentarily snatched the pole from a Landon Norris
11:28who came back,
11:30replicated the hit,
11:32and the pole was three tenths ahead
11:34of Max Verstappen.
11:36In his home,
11:38where Verstappen had done the 100% of poles
11:40since Zambos came back in 2021,
11:42not even in this 2021
11:44Hamilton could be a rival.
11:46Norris has been in this classification.
11:48Piastri couldn't even improve
11:50Verstappen's time,
11:52and he stayed in that third position,
11:54and there was still to come George Russell,
11:56who was fourth, he couldn't improve,
11:58he was ahead of Leclerc,
12:00but the pole,
12:02and the most important thing,
12:04is for Landon Norris.
12:06He comes back,
12:08in the Zambor circuit,
12:10what will he be able to do tomorrow?
12:12Starting from the first position,
12:14the second has been Verstappen,
12:16and the third Oscar Piastri.
12:18Fourth position for Russell,
12:20fifth Checo Pérez,
12:22very far from his teammate,
12:24Max Verstappen,
12:26sixth Leclerc,
12:28eighth Albon, ninth Stroll,
12:30and tenth Piastri.
12:32To remind you, tenth Sainz,
12:34Hamilton, Zunoda, Hulkenberg, Magnus, Enrique Ardo,
12:36Ocon, Bottas, Zou,
12:38and then Sargent, who of course
12:40hasn't even made the classification.
12:42So this has been everything we have seen
12:44in this very interesting classification
12:46session that we have seen
12:48in the Zambor circuit.
12:50We are going to show you the sectors,
12:52who have been the fastest.
12:54Stroll stands out a lot in that first sector,
12:56because also, look where Alonso is.
12:58The first sector of Stroll
13:00is amazing.
13:02Then Alonso, for example,
13:04on the contrary, in the third sector he is very good.
13:06He is also very close to Landon Norris.
13:08More or less the same difference
13:10that Alonso has from Norris is the one that Stroll has from Norris
13:12in the first sector. The only thing is that in the third,
13:14Piastri, Russell, Leclerc, Verstappen
13:16are also a little ahead.
13:18But there we also see the differences between the two riders.
13:20Alonso presses more in the third sector,
13:22Stroll does it in the first.
13:24They are very even, that has to be said.
13:26And then in the rest we see Norris,
13:28who has been the first and third sector,
13:30despite scoring the purple.
13:32And in the second, which is the best sector of Verstappen,
13:34he is very close, that's why
13:36Max Verstappen can't win so much time.
13:38As for the top speed, they are not really important,
13:40because here there is not a very predominant line.
13:42We see Cecho,
13:44who has been the one with the best top speed scored,
13:46Zou also being the last
13:48in this case.
13:50So, very interesting classification.
13:52Norris has broken all the equality
13:54in this classification.
13:56Three tenths ahead of Max Verstappen
13:58at home.
14:00Let's remember that Verstappen
14:02had 100% of the poles in Zandvoort
14:04since this circuit returned in 2021.
14:06100% of the poles
14:08and 100% of the victories.
14:10We'll see Norris tomorrow,
14:12coming out first, what he can do.
14:14We'll see how he loses the first position,
14:16because so far Norris has never managed
14:18to keep that first position.
14:20We'll see if he is able, for the first time,
14:22to do it here.
14:24He really has the best chance to do it,
14:26because there is little space until turn 1.
14:28He shouldn't lose that first position,
14:30but we'll see.
14:32We also have to tell you that Norris has
14:34a very good chance of victory,
14:36because this is a very important circuit
14:38to keep the position.
14:40It is difficult to overtake.
14:42Norris says that during the summer break
14:44he has reviewed what the season has been
14:46and he has said that he has not been performing
14:48very well.
14:50We'll see if that has helped him.
14:52And we see this weekend in Zandvoort
14:54a fight for victory.
14:56He may be able to fight
14:58against Max Stappen, who starts
15:00in second place, despite all the problems
15:02that Red Bull has had this weekend.
15:04Despite not being completely comfortable,
15:06he has still been second,
15:08so very good in that sense,
15:10Verstappen.
15:12McLaren has even been disappointed
15:14because Piastri could have been second
15:16and that would have been much better
15:18for them tomorrow, but we'll see
15:20what they are capable of doing.
15:22Very well Leclerc in the last attempt,
15:24who has managed to minimize
15:26the damage for Ferrari.
15:28A Ferrari that has been quite bad
15:30and yet he has managed to put himself
15:32in 6th position, which is good,
15:34behind the McLaren, behind the Mercedes
15:36and behind the Red Bull,
15:38the position that you have to get.
15:40Just like Fernando Alonso.
15:42Fernando Alonso has been very good
15:44in the stadium, he has said it.
15:46He could not do more,
15:48there was nothing else to get out of Aston Martin.
15:50They have not been that far,
15:52it has been possibly the best weekend
15:54of the last that Aston Martin had,
15:56this will have been the best,
15:58but there was nothing else.
16:00Seventh could have been ninth,
16:02if Sainz and Hamilton had managed
16:04to enter Q3.
16:06As they have not entered,
16:08you get that seventh position,
16:10the first of the rest.
16:12I hope that Hamilton and Sainz
16:14do not overtake you.
16:16If they overtake you,
16:18Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin
16:20will be in ninth place tomorrow.
16:22So this has been all for this video,
16:24thank you very much for having reached
16:26the end of the summary of this
16:28classification of the Netherlands.
16:30Leave me in the comments your opinions
16:32and who do you think will win tomorrow.
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