Max Verstappen may have logged a record-tying ninth straight win, but he wasn't the only driver to show out in Zandvoort.
After slipping back in the fight to be best of the rest against Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren through the July races, Aston Martin and Fernando Alonso returned to form at Zandvoort. From fifth on the grid, Alonso’s canny, cunning nature shone through off the start as he took the low line at Turn 3 to grab two positions before following Verstappen into the pits at the end of the second lap.
He missed first practice with Robert Shwartzman hopping into the driver’s seat . Sainz went on to qualify sixth, going on near-perfect runs despite the wet track during Q1 and Q2, but the car still proved tricky to handle. He said Saturday, “We just simply know that our high-downforce rear wings are not performing as they should, and when we come to these tracks we don’t put as much downforce in the car as the others, and we’re sliding a lot more.
The recovery from there was impressive as Hamilton found his groove with the car, allowing him to battle up the order with some great overtakes — especially the lunge on Charles Leclerc into Turn 1 — that put him back in the frame for points. Although he hassled Sainz for fifth to the line, there was ultimately no way past.
“That was quite eventful,” Lawson said Sunday. “I think he was struggling a lot on the softs and every time I passed him he passed me back on the straight, so a little bit frustrating but obviously it’s good to get experience. I feel like I had experience of every situation in that race with multiple pit stops, wheel-to-wheel racing, dry, so it was a good learning experience.”
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