Summary

  • Dutch Grand Prix hosting 24-lap sprint race for first time

  • Polesitter George Russell leads Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc

  • Kimi Antonelli passes Oscar Piastri for fourth place on opening lap

  • Antonelli leads drivers' championship by 50 points from Lewis Hamilton

  • Isack Hadjar ruled out at Zandvoort with wrist injury

  • Liam Lawson replaces him at Red Bull; Yuki Tsunoda in for Lawson at Racing Bulls

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Live Reporting

Jay Freeman

  1. Bit of a war of attrition, this.

    Charles Leclerc's bided his time for most of this sprint race and now he's within a car length of Lando Norris.

    Just a handful of tenths separates the two drivers now.

  2. As you were at the top after the 15th lap.

    Further down, Lewis Hamilton's worked his way to within 0.4 seconds of Max Verstappen, with the Dutchman currently struggling to overtake Oscar Piastri.

  3. Marc Priestley
    Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

    Those top four runners have broken away from the rest of the race. The gap from Kimi Antonelli means he can focus all eyes forward and he is chasing down the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. He can smell blood.

  4. Russell, Norris, LeclercGetty Images

    Needless to say, the Lando Norris-Charles Leclerc battle's benefitting George Russell.

    Nearly 1.5 seconds between them.

    If it ends like this, that's another small chunk of points towards Russell's title charge and pursuit of Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli.

  5. Half a second between second-placed Lando Norris and the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc behind him.

    Meanwhile, Max Verstappen's built a lead of almost two seconds on seventh-placed Lewis Hamilton.

    Mixed fortunes for Ferrari right now.

  6. Marc Priestley
    Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

    Lando Norris is really struggling, he's falling away from George Russell in front, Charles Leclerc is getting very close.

  7. LawsonGetty Images

    What of the respective swaps at Red Bull and Racing Bulls after Isack Hadjar's wrist injury, then.

    Well Liam Lawson's currently in 11th in the Red Bull with Yuki Tsunoda 13th as it stands.

  8. Kai Bachini
    F1 commentator on Sports Extra 3

    The mistake are piling up for Lando Norris. I wonder what state Charles Leclerc's tyres are in if Norris is complaining on his medium tyres.

  9. George RussellGetty Images

    A word on the race leader George Russell who looks a bit more comfortable now, in light of Lando Norris' problems with the rear of his McLaren, than he did a few laps ago.

    1.6 seconds is the gap between him and second-placed Norris as we approach the halfway stage of this sprint race.

  10. Andrew Benson
    BBC F1 correspondent in Zandvoort

    Very difficult to overtake and we're seeing that. Lando Norris has an edge on pace over George Russell. The one to keep an eye on is Kimi Antonelli, he'll be hoping that Charles Leclerc's tyres will go off towards the end and there will be an opportunity for a move. He'll be looking to minimise the damage to his championship lead.

  11. The pendulum has shifted towards Charles Leclerc on this lap.

    "I've got no rear" Lando Norris says over the team radio and Leclerc's clawed his way to within 0.7 seconds of the McLaren driver.

    Still, Leclerc's on the soft tyre which is more prone to wear. Surely he's got to make this stick soon.

  12. LeclercGetty Images

    Charles Leclerc is over a second behind Lando Norris in third position right now. But Kimi Antonelli's maintained his sub one second gap on the Ferrari man.

  13. Marc Priestley
    Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

    Charles Leclerc is dropping away from Lando Norris in front of him, this is good for Kimi Antonelli who will need to be patient on his medium tyres.

  14. Not a great deal separating the top four of this sprint race at the minute which is similar to how sprint qualifying panned out yesterday, in fact.

    Not a bad sprint, this. What we've lacked in overtaking, we've gained in a bunched up pack.

    Plenty of laps to go. Could we be in for a frantic finale?

  15. Norris trails behind RussellGetty Images

    Very much a cat and mouse battle at the front here as Lando Norris has continued to keep his McLaren within a second of sprint race leader George Russell.

    Norris is yet to get close enough to make a move for the lead, however.

  16. Marc Priestley
    Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

    Hamilton is really closing in on Verstappen, that's a battle to keep an eye on.

  17. Nico Hulkenberg has been told by Audi to box to retire his car.

    A pity for him and the team, they looked in decent shape in practice and sprint qualifying yesterday.

  18. Marc Priestley
    Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

    Everyone is up to temperature now but the question is, can the soft runners Charles Leclerc and Ollie Bearman push anywhere near as hard and for as long as everyone on the mediums?

  19. There's 24 laps in this sprint race and it's a pacey track with plenty of cornering. Charles Leclerc cannot make those softs work for the whole race, can he?

    He's within 0.9 seconds of Lando Norris at the minute, but Kimi Antonelli behind has clawed him down to 0.6 seconds inside the opening five laps.

  20. Dutch Grand PrixGetty Images

    An interesting battle going on between the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Max Verstappen for sixth.

    Hamilton's bridged the gap to Verstappen quite significantly, but can he make a move in the next few laps?

    Meanwhile at the front, Lando Norris has taken three tenths out of George Russell and is within a second of the Mercedes man.