The Dutch Grand Prix was non-stop incidents from start to finish, and the man celebrating most at the end of it all was McLaren’s Oscar Piastri. The Australian’s win generated more than its fair share of fascinating F1 trivia, but there were plenty more notable numbers to digest throughout the Zandvoort finishing order…
• This was Piastri’s ninth career victory, which ties his manager Mark Webber’s career total.
• It was Piastri’s first career podium finish at Zandvoort.
• Piastri took pole, victory, fastest lap and led every lap, making it the the first ‘Grand Slam’ win for a McLaren driver since Mika Hakkinen at the 1998 Monaco Grand Prix.
• Piastri is the first Australian since Jack Brabham to take a Grand Slam (Belgium 1960, Great Britain 1966).
• Piastri led from start to finish for the first time in his career and now heads the Drivers’ Championship by 34 points.
• P2 for Max Verstappen ended the Red Bull driver’s longest run without a podium since 2017/2018 (four races).
• Verstappen has never finished lower than second in his home Grand Prix.
• Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar took P3 to become the fifth-youngest podium finisher of all-time behind Verstappen, Lance Stroll, Kimi Antonelli and Lando Norris.
• Hadjar, 20, is the youngest French driver to stand on the F1 podium (the previous record was Pierre Gasly, aged 23, in 2019).
• It was the sixth podium finish for Racing Bulls in the Faenza team’s history (zero podiums as Minardi, three as Toro Rosso, two as AlphaTauri, one as Racing Bulls).
• Hadjar tied the best result for a rookie this season (Antonelli was P3 in Canada).
• George Russell’s P4 was Mercedes’ best finish at Zandvoort since 2022.
• P5 for Alex Albon was Williams’ first top-five finish at Zandvoort since Keke Rosberg and Derek Daly in 1982.
• It was Albon’s 10th points finish of the season (his most in a single season since joining Williams).
• P6 for Oliver Bearman was a career-best finish for the Haas driver, who started from the pit lane.
• With Esteban Ocon in P10, both Haas cars scored points for the third time this season.
• Lance Stroll came from 19th on the grid to finish seventh for Aston Martin.
• Stroll now leads team mate Fernando Alonso 32 points to 30 in the Drivers’ Championship.
• Alonso took P8 and has scored in six of the last seven Grands Prix.
• Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda finished in P9 to end a seven-race streak without a point.
• It was Tsunoda’s first-ever points finish at Zandvoort.
• Franco Colapinto’s P11 was the best finish of the season for this Alpine chassis, by either the Argentine driver or the man he replaced, Jack Doohan.
• Liam Lawson finished P12 for Racing Bulls and was the only Red Bull-backed car to not score points.
• Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli finished sixth on the road but dropped down to P16 after 15 seconds of penalties.
• In P17 for Alpine, Pierre Gasly was the last classified finisher for the second consecutive race.
• Lando Norris’ DNF for McLaren was his first mechanical retirement since Brazil 2022.
• Ferrari had a 100 percent finishing record this season until both cars retired today.
• Lewis Hamilton has scored no points in last two Grands Prix.
• Today’s was Hamilton first DNF for Ferrari.
• Hamilton crashed out – he has had one DNF due to an accident in each of the last five seasons.
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