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Statistics After Each Grand Prix: It’s time to delve into the most significant statistics, records broken, ongoing remarkable streaks, or those that came to an abrupt end last weekend…
Qualifications
Last year at Zandvoort, Max Verstappen finished ahead of Lando Norris in qualifications (1st and 2nd). This year, the roles were reversed.
This marks the fourth time this season that Norris and Verstappen have shared the front row.
Norris secured the fourth pole position of his career, six including sprints.
This was McLaren’s first pole at Zandvoort since Alain Prost in 1984.
It also represented McLaren’s 350th front-row start.
This was the first time in his career that Max Verstappen did not start from pole at his home Grand Prix in Zandvoort.
For Oscar Piastri, this was his second start within the top three in the last seven races. The other was in Hungary, where he won the race.
There’s improvement for Sergio Pérez, who qualified in the top 5 in the last two races after failing to do so in the previous seven.
Fernando Alonso started from the fourth row for the third consecutive race.
Lando Stroll’s ninth place is his best qualification at Zandvoort.
Pierre Gasly made his third Q3 appearance of the season, and for the first time in five Grands Prix, he outqualified Ocon.
Excluding his absence in Saudi Arabia due to appendicitis, Carlos Sainz failed to reach Q3 for the second time this year, after Canada.
Like Ocon, for the second consecutive year, Lewis Hamilton was eliminated in Q2 at Zandvoort.
Starting outside the top 10, Lewis has only won once in his career – at Hockenheim in 2018, from 14th on the grid (when Sebastian Vettel crashed out from the lead).
This is the third time Lewis Hamilton has missed Q3 in 2024, after Australia and China. George Russell leads him 11 to 4 in qualifications.
Daniel Ricciardo has been eliminated in Q1 for the fourth time this year.
As for Nico Hülkenberg, he has beaten Kevin Magnussen in qualifications for the sixth consecutive Grand Prix. The score in the Haas F1 team duel is 12 to 3.
The Saubers were the only cars over a second off the pace in qualifications. However, Valtteri Bottas consistently outperforms Guanyu Zhou, leading their teammate battle 14 to 1.
The Race
Lando Norris has started from pole position six times in his career (including two sprints), and each time he has lost the lead in the first lap!
However, the Briton superbly recovered, winning his second Grand Prix.
Norris is the first McLaren driver to win a Grand Prix from pole position since… Lewis Hamilton at the Italian Grand Prix in 2012.
It had been six consecutive Grands Prix where the pole-sitter did not win the race. This streak ended (it was the longest streak since 2009/2010).
Norris is the first driver other than Max Verstappen to win by more than 10 seconds in nearly two and a half years. The last was Charles Leclerc for Ferrari in Australia in 2022.
Lando Norris finished 22.896 seconds ahead of Max Verstappen – the largest gap of the season.
This is McLaren’s first victory at Zandvoort since Niki Lauda in 1985.
Norris has now surpassed his highest points total for a season in his career (205), with nine Grands Prix still remaining.
Max Verstappen competed in his 200th Grand Prix. However, unlike Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton, and Sebastian Vettel, he did not win his milestone 200th F1 Grand Prix…
This marks the first time Verstappen has failed to win at Zandvoort in his career.
It has also been five Grands Prix since the Red Bull driver has won in F1!
Despite finishing only fourth, Oscar Piastri is the driver with the most points over the last five Grands Prix (92 points).
The McLaren F1 driver is also still the only one to have completed every lap this year.
Carlos Sainz finished fifth for Ferrari, placing him in the top six for the sixth consecutive race, although he has only been on the podium once during this period. The Spaniard has always finished in the top 5 at Zandvoort.
Sergio Perez achieved his first top 6 finish since Miami, nine races ago.
Red Bull now holds only a 30-point lead over McLaren in the constructors’ championship.
Charles Leclerc secured his second consecutive third-place finish.
Lewis Hamilton ends a streak of three consecutive podiums.
Pierre Gasly matched Alpine F1’s best result of the year, a ninth place.
Fernando Alonso has always finished in the points at Zandvoort in four races, even though it was only a top 10 this time.
Frustratingly, Nico Hülkenberg has finished in 11th place six times this year!
The top 10 of the GP consisted entirely of former race winners for the second consecutive race, a feat never before achieved in 74 years of the world championship history.
This is the fourth race of the season (after Bahrain, Spain, and Austria) without any retirements or even a yellow flag, the highest total in a year in F1 history.
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