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Piastri in parc ferme: "Hard to follow up, Isack."
Hadjar: "Really happy about myself, made no mistakes."
Absolute scenes down at Racing Bulls after podium number six for Team Faenza.
Oscar Piastri wins the Dutch Grand Prix. Huge for the title race, as he establishes a 34-point lead over Norris!
But Isack, wow, well done - a maiden podium for the rookie in third behind Verstappen.
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Despite the many restarts and Norris staying within range, Piastri has shown immense bottle in this grand prix. He has led from start-to-finish in what has been a real champion-like performance.
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Great start from Piastri once again, who has held off Verstappen. He is the only driver of the top seven to be running on hard rubber.
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Green once again.
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But Norris's misfortune could benefit Hadjar in third. The Racing Bulls driver could become the second rookie to claim a podium this year after Antonelli in Canada.
Everybody in the Racing Bulls garage is clearly looking on nervously.
Norris is understandably devastated as he walks back to the garage. How does he claw back that championship deficit?
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Uh-oh! That could be huge for the championship with Norris retiring thanks to a smoky engine.
As things stand, Piastri leads the championship by 34 points.
It's no surprise that Hadjar leads the fan-voted 'driver of the day' award. The Racing Bulls rookie has kept position in fourth, having withstood pressure from the likes of Russell.
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Piastri seems to have overcome Norris's brief scare, as he is now crucially out of DRS range.
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Antonelli's day just keeps getting worse! A 5s penalty for speeding in the pitlane, which adds to the 10s he got for colliding into Leclerc.
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Well Norris has quickly closed the gap and he is already within DRS range of Piastri. Leclerc, meanwhile, has just situated himself at Turn 3 to watch the action rather than returning to his garage.
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Solid start from Piastri who is 1.1s ahead of Norris, as the Briton is instead defending from Verstappen. Verstappen's softs have clearly come up to temperature well, while it takes a little longer for the hard rubber.
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We're green again.
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The 10s penalty for Sainz was rather confusing, but this one isn't. As expected, Antonelli has been penalised 10s for his collision with Leclerc.
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Well that's not ideal! Leclerc rejoined just ahead of Antonelli with the two then colliding at Turn 3. Antonelli was on the inside and clipped Leclerc, who went spinning into retirement.
His car is just stranded at the exit of Turn 3.
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Ferrari reacts to that by pitting Leclerc, also for softs. So Russell does get past Leclerc after all!
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Interesting idea from Mercedes, who has pitted Antonelli for a pair of soft tyres. It drops him from sixth to eighth.
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That gap is remaining stationary at the front, as Piastri leads Norris by around 1.3/4s. What can the Briton conjure up in the latter stages of this contest?
"It's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my life," said a very shocked Sainz, when told about his penalty.
The Williams man is fair to say that: he was on the outside of Turn 1, and Lawson collided into him.
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Norris is gradually closing on Piastri, with just 1.2s separating the McLaren pair. The team isn't interfering, strategy is seemingly no longer at play here, so will Norris beat the championship leader on track?
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Losing out to Leclerc has really cost Russell! It caused damage on his car, meaning he struggled to keep up with the Ferrari leading to Mercedes asking him to swap positions with team-mate Antonelli in seventh.
Russell was shocked to hear the request, but nevertheless complied.
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Sainz will be unhappy to know he has been given a 10s penalty for that collision with Lawson. Leclerc and Russell, meanwhile, are under investigation for their battle.
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Just 1.7s separate Piastri and Norris. The championship leader clearly could have done without the VSC.
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Wow, what a fight for fifth. Russell's failure to overtake Hadjar for fourth in the laps before the VSC has cost him, as Leclerc has taken fifth with a daring move on the inside of Turn 3.
Leclerc outbraked him on the outside heading into Turn 2, before squeezing through with two wheels on the gravel at the following corner.
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It's green again and Norris cut about a second to Piastri during that VSC. The gap is now two-seconds.
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VSC conditions now thanks to debris along the start-finish straight.
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Solid restart from Piastri, who is already 2.1s ahead of Norris. But it wasn't a good lap for Sainz and Lawson, who touched at the exit of Turn 1 causing damage to their tyres. Both then pitted again at the end of the tour.
"He's just so stupid," said Sainz.
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The race is green again, with one very unhappy Norris. The green light appeared on his dashboard in the pits, so he pulled away but the mechanic was still working on the front right, hence the delay.
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Interesting choice from Red Bull, which has put third-placed Verstappen on the medium tyre compared to hards for everybody else.
The world champion already started on different tyres to those around him, opting for softs and not mediums.
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Drivers have arrived in the pitlane as expected and Norris has lost out. The mechanics were slows on the front right, costing him 2-3 seconds to Piastri!
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Oh Lewis! The Ferrari driver has crashed at the exit of Turn 3 and we now have a safety car.
It's a bit slippery in sector one and Hamilton lost the rear a little on the banking. He was seventh at the time.
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The chance of rain is looming, yet that's still not stopping teams from pitting for hard tyres. Alonso, Stroll, Tsunoda, Colapinto and Hulkenberg have all made a pitstop.
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Norris: "Starting to struggle a little bit more now with the rears."
In the aftermath of overtaking Verstappen for second, Norris became the fastest man on track and cut his deficit to Piastri to 3.2s. But that gap has somewhat stalled now, with the McLaren drivers as quick as each other.
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This race has very much become a procession. It just feels like teams and drivers are now waiting for the pitstop window, or for rain to potentially fall.
Everything is on a knife-edge.
By: Ed Hardy
