Red Bull's Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium with the trophy after winning the Dutch Grand Prix, alongside second placed Mercedes' George Russell and third placed Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.Red Bull's Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium with the trophy after winning the Dutch Grand Prix, alongside second placed Mercedes' George Russell and third placed Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
“It’s always special to win your home grand prix, this year I had to work for it even more,” he added as the grandstands full of orange-shirted fans — most of the 105,000 attendance — went into party overdrive. Tsunoda had stopped by the side of the track on the 44th of 72 laps, complaining a wheel had not been fitted properly.
“We timed it really well out of that last corner into the banking. You could see the draft was quite strong and we got ahead. It’s incredible to win again,” said Verstappen. The Spaniard had already been dropped from third to sixth by a pitstop bungle that even team principal Mattia Binotto described as a mess.