It was a dramatic weekend at Zandvoort, with Oscar Piastri successful, group mate Lando Norris retiring, Isack Hadjar scoring a maiden podium end and Ferrari struggling a double DNF. So, who impressed our judges by way of all of it? Try the most recent scores and general leaderboard beneath…
The way it works
- Our five-judge panel assess every driver after each Grand Prix and rating them out of 10 based on their efficiency throughout the weekend – taking equipment out of the equation
- Our specialists’ scores are then averaged out to supply a race rating – with these scores then tallied up throughout the season on our general Energy Rankings Leaderboard (on the backside of the web page)
Hadjar kicked off his rookie F1 season in painful circumstances with a formation lap spin on the Australian Grand Prix, however since then the French teen has starred with Racing Bulls. He reached new heights at Zandvoort through a surprising run to fourth in Qualifying, defending that place brilliantly earlier than making the most of Norris’ retirement to attain a maiden podium.
Piastri trailed McLaren group mate Norris throughout follow across the Dutch dunes however delivered when it matter to bag pole place in Qualifying. He expertly managed proceedings within the race to earn a ninth profession victory, tying supervisor supervisor Mark Webber’s profession complete, whereas finishing the primary ‘Grand Slam’ – pole, win, quickest lap and each lap led – for a McLaren driver since Mika Hakkinen on the 1998 Monaco Grand Prix.
Heading into the weekend, Max Verstappen knew it could be a problem so as to add to the Zandvoort wins he achieved in 2021, 2022 and 2023, given McLaren’s stage of efficiency this season. It proved to be the case, regardless of an impressed Qualifying effort that noticed him set the quickest center sector cut up. He was operating a robust third to Piastri and Norris on an off-set technique when the latter hit bother and retired – giving the Dutchman a bonus P2 end result.
Norris seemed like the person to beat at the beginning of the occasion, having confidently topped FP1, FP2 and FP3. Nevertheless, it was group mate Piastri who grabbed pole by 0.012s in one other ultra-close Qualifying session, earlier than Norris misplaced additional floor at the beginning when Verstappen slipped forward. The Briton fought again properly to reclaim second after which put some stress on Piastri, just for his hopes to go up in smoke.
Having began his weekend inside the highest 5 in follow, Albon was understandably annoyed with a Q2 elimination in Qualifying – the Williams driver’s closing run not going to plan. Nevertheless, he got here again combating on an overcast and drizzly race day, making up 5 positions at the beginning, capitalising on incidents and Security Automobiles and in the end coming away with a P5 end result.
Bearman was one other disillusioned driver after Qualifying, having dropped out in Q1 in nineteenth – forward of solely the sidelined Lance Stroll. He was then shifted to the pit lane for the beginning as a result of taking up a bunch of latest energy unit components pre-race. From there, the one means was ahead, and the Haas rookie calmly navigated the aforementioned drama to comply with Albon house in a positive sixth place.
After maintaining his run of qualifying contained in the top-six locations at each spherical other than Monaco up to now this season, Russell skilled an eventful race day at Zandvoort. A difficult begin for the Mercedes man was adopted by a collision with Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc – the next harm costing him round a second a lap. Whereas he took “zero satisfaction” from his afternoon on the wheel, fourth nonetheless represented a stable return.
A downbeat Leclerc had labelled Ferrari’s Friday within the Netherlands their worst of the season, including that the group wanted a “miracle” to show the scenario round. The Monegasque discovered a means into the highest six in Qualifying, although, and was wanting full of life within the race – underlined by that aggressive move on Russell – to problem for a stable haul of factors. Nevertheless, a second conflict with the other Silver Arrow of Kimi Antonelli, following an additional pit cease that he had questioned, ended his day.
Throughout a tricky season for Alpine, Pierre Gasly has managed to tug some spectacular outcomes out of the bag and provides the group one thing to shout about. The Frenchman – having certified 14th – got here near doing so once more at Zandvoort, however the name to keep up observe place beneath the ultimate Security Automotive backfired and left him uncovered to rivals who had pitted for recent rubber. “Generally this stuff work out, generally they don’t,” as he put it afterwards.
Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin caught the attention once they cut up the McLarens of Norris and Piastri throughout second follow, elevating hopes of a podium push. It didn’t fairly work out that means, with Alonso getting overhauled by faster vehicles in Qualifying and group mate Stroll discovering the wall. On race day, regardless of frustrations over the timing of his pit stops and dropping time in site visitors, Alonso managed to prime up his factors tally in eighth.
Like Bearman, Esteban Ocon fell on the first Qualifying hurdle after a mistake on his closing Q1 run, giving Haas loads to do within the race. He joined his group mate in transferring up the order, although, and made it a double factors end by heading off Alpine’s Franco Colapinto late on and crossing the road in tenth place.
Lacking out
Colapinto simply missed out on a spot within the Energy Rankings prime 10 on what was a extra encouraging weekend from the Argentinian, together with Liam Lawson, who was in factors competition aboard the opposite Racing Bulls automobile till a conflict with Carlos Sainz.
