FACTS AND STATS: Zandvoort top ten all previous race winners ...

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For McLaren, the headline stat from the Netherlands was Lando Norris’s 23-second winning margin – the biggest of the season. For the rest of us, there were plenty of other fascinating figures thrown up by Sunday’s race in Zandvoort. Here’s just a handful…

• This was Norris’s second career victory in Formula 1 racing.

• Norris is the first McLaren driver to win a Grand Prix from pole position since Lewis Hamilton at the 2012 Italian Grand Prix.

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• Today’s race ends a streak of six consecutive Grands Prix not won from pole, the longest seen in F1 since 2009/2010.

• Norris is the first driver other than Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to win by over 10 seconds in almost two and a half years. The last was Charles Leclerc for Ferrari in Australia 2022.

• Norris won by 22.896s, the largest winning margin of the season.

• It was the first McLaren win at Zandvoort since Niki Lauda’s last race win in 1985.

• Norris has now exceeded his highest-ever season points total (205) with nine races still remaining.

No podium today, but Oscar Piastri is the top scorer in the last five Grands Prix

• After taking P2, Max Verstappen missed out on joining Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel as winners in their 200th Grands Prix.

• It was the first time Verstappen has failed to win his home race.

• Verstappen has now gone five races without a win.

• It sees his championship lead reduced for only the fourth time all season.

RACE START: Watch the getaway in Zandvoort as Verstappen takes the lead from pole-sitter Norris

• Leclerc was classified third for the second consecutive race.

• Leclerc maintains third in the drivers’ championship (he was 10 points ahead of Oscar Piastri before today).

• Piastri’s P4 finish means he is the top scorer in the last five Grands Prix, with 92 points.

• He is also the only driver to complete every racing lap this season.

• Carlos Sainz’s P5 for Ferrari meant he finished in the top six for the sixth consecutive race, though he’s only had one podium finish in that time.

• Sainz has always finished in the top five at Zandvoort.

Yet again, Nico Hulkenberg missed the points by a single place

• With P6 for Red Bull, Sergio Perez took his first top-six finish since Miami, nine races ago.

• Red Bull now lead McLaren by 30 points in the constructors' championship.

• George Russell finished in P7 for Mercedes and has only scored 11 points in four races since winning the Austrian Grand Prix (he was disqualified from victory in Belgium).

• Team mate Lewis Hamilton ended a three-race streak of podium finishes with P8.

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• With P9, Pierre Gasly matched his and Alpine’s best result of the season.

• Fernando Alonso finished in P10 for Aston Martin to maintain his 100 percent point-scoring record in four Dutch Grand Prix starts.

• At Haas, Nico Hulkenberg finished 11th for the sixth time this year.

• The top-10 drivers today are all previous race winners for the second race in a row, having never previously happened once in the 74-year history of the world championship.

• It was the fourth race this season (after Bahrain, Spain and Austria) with no classified retirements, the most in any season in F1 history.