2026 Dutch Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
ROUND 14: 🇳🇱 Netherlands
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 12:30 CEST | 10:30 UTC
- Sprint Qualifying: Friday, 16:30 CEST | 14:30 UTC
- Sprint: Saturday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC
- Qualifying: Saturday, 19:00 CEST | 17:00 UTC
- Race: Sunday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC
Circuit stats & Tyres
- First Grand Prix: 1952
- Number of laps: 72
- Circuit Length: 4.259 km
- Race Distance: 306.587 km
- Lap record: 1:11.097 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
- 2025 Pole: Oscar Piastri (1:10.842)
- 2025 Fastest Lap: Oscar Piastri (1:12.271)
- 2025 winner: Oscar Piastri
- Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴
23 replies
"Bono, I have no grip." - Antonelli
Close enough welcome back Hamilton.
It‘s a miracle no one else got collected in all that
Leclerc has to be pissed at the Ferrari strategy generator.
HAM's softs are heavily used?
Following the sprint, I was expecting a bit of a snooze fest, but interesting race from a strategy perspective.
Not Verstappen :O
That was a hard whack.
Fun watching this midfield battle.
Lovely battle
Not a single decent stop. Fastest so far was Russel, who somehow got 3.0 even though the mechanics weren’t ready. What is going on?
Narrow pitlane, no one goes in square to the crew I think.
If I'm not mistaken, the 3 seconds is measured from the car becoming stationary until the pit light goes green. Narrow pitlanes aren't a factor during that time.
Yes, but the crew all train for a perfect aligned car. That's why they all practice hitting their marks.
When the car is askew / not on its marks it's a bad pitstop.
How many stops has Piastri done now? 5?
4, Same as Leclerc and Antonelli.
I hope Ferrari just manage to go the distance on the softs. Pick up 2-3rd 😂
Edit: as I post they all pit...
What is happening with Russell and his race starts. Caused quite a ripple with Piastri into Leclerc into Hamilton into Verstappen.
Mercedes??
The summer break return is always interesting 🤔🤔
Well, I suppose this will be a standing restart?
15:33 restart time.
!weather
🌤️ Weather Forecast for 2026 Dutch Grand Prix
Sunday 23 Aug
⛅ Cloudy
🌡️ 13.1°C – 18.7°C
💨 Wind: 18.0 km/h
🌧️ Rain chance: 45%
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You gotta pump those numbers up