McLaren’s Lando Norris fights back to take a dominant victory in the Dutch Grand Prix despite losing the lead to Max Verstappen’s Red Bull at the start.
McLaren’s Lando Norris fought back to take a dominant victory in the Dutch Grand Prix despite losing the lead to Max Verstappen’s Red Bull at the start.
And his defence of the lead when Norris caught him was half-hearted, especially in the context of his normally ultra-robust defensive tactics, and the McLaren swept into the lead down the inside line at the first corner, Tarzan. "Simply lovely," Norris said cheekily over the radio, copying the phrase Verstappen used so many times in victories during his dominance of the last two years.
In the constructors’ chase, McLaren are now just 31 points behind Red Bull in the quest for their first teams’ title for 26 years.When Norris lost the lead off the line, there were echoes of the events in Spain, Hungary and Belgium, in all of which his victory chances were compromised by being passed on the first lap, either through a slow start or an error.
In the end, they did not have to worry. Norris was more than five seconds in front by the time Verstappen stopped for fresh tyres on lap 27, and McLaren were able to cover him with a stop on the following lap to enable their driver to continue to control the race from the front.In the second part of the race, Verstappen briefly had to focus behind him rather than in front as the second McLaren of Piastri gave hints of a potential one-two.
Initially, Piastri showed pace that might have allowed him to catch Verstappen by the end of the race.
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