Formula 1 live ticker: Norris wins, Verstappen crashes!

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And once again McLaren. Lando Norris says about the championship situation: “That sounds boring, but one race at a time.” He is currently still 83 points behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli.

“I know many say that now, but that’s just how it is. There’s no point in thinking too far ahead,” explains Norris. Team boss Stella sees it similarly and adds that Mercedes is currently “rightly” in front.

McLaren still needs “many good race weekends” to close this gap. He therefore wants to “rather focus on having good race weekends and making further improvements to the car.”

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The McLaren team boss explains meanwhile on Sky: “The race pace in Hungary was more convincing. In the sprint we [yesterday] were not the fastest car. Ferrari had the fastest car.”

“I want to give the team and the drivers great praise because after the sprint we made some adjustments to the car and slightly adapted the driving style regarding tire usage in the race.”

“And I believe that paid off,” says Stella, emphasizing that it was “a deserved victory from this perspective.”

The world champion started from pole, but his path to victory was quite complicated. “I made it difficult for myself today, but it was a good race,” he says after his second consecutive triumph.

“The pace was very strong and I managed it incredibly well today,” says Norris, who initially lost the lead after the second start.

About the decisive maneuver against Antonelli he says: “That was a good move! I knew I wouldn’t get many chances. With every lap I spent behind them, my chances decreased further.”

“I saw Lewis defending himself, and I knew that was my chance,” says Norris, explaining: “I probably had a single chance to make it happen, and I used it optimally.”

The championship leader radioed at the end of the race that something was wrong with his car. Now he has explained: “From the second stint on, I just didn’t have a good feel for the car anymore.”

“The car started to slide quite a bit, and in the end Lando overtook me. Then I knew I had no chance anymore,” says Antonelli.

“Of course, as a team we now have to find a bit more time because McLaren has made a huge leap forward. So we have to keep up the pressure,” he emphasizes.

On the radio, George Russell criticized the decision to have to make way for Kimi Antonelli. Meanwhile, he has calmed down and explains: “Kimi was ahead of me anyway, so he deserved to finish ahead of me.”

“When you’re in a race, of course you want to fight for every single position,” says Russell. But he also knows: “With the new tires, he would have overtaken me anyway, so it was the right decision.”

“I’m just happy to be on the podium. That was a while ago for me, and overall it was a strong weekend,” he emphasizes.

The Dutchman reports after his crash today: “That was quite a hit, but I’ve experienced worse.” The weekend was “disappointing” anyway, he adds.

“We simply couldn’t really keep up with the drivers ahead of us, that’s probably the most disappointing part. Of course, I would have wished that we could have gotten a bit more out of the race.”

“But looking at the pace we showed, I don’t think that would have really been possible anyway,” says Verstappen.

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In ten minutes the race in Zandvoort begins and we are moving the action to our session ticker for now. So there is a short break here, after the finish line it continues here with the voices about the Grand Prix.

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“I expect a wet start,” says pole man Lando Norris on F1TV about the conditions. Alexander Albon meanwhile emphasizes that the track will probably dry very quickly. That rather speaks for a start on slicks.

Right now it is definitely not raining anymore.

Liam Lawson had an excursion into the gravel trap during his lap to the starting grid. But it was just a small scare, he still made it – like everyone else.

Kimi Antonelli meanwhile reports that the first part of the lap is quite dry. The second part is then “quite wet”. Not easy for teams and drivers.

The track is now wet, but the rain has already stopped again. That makes tire choice at the start difficult. We remember Canada, where some cars started on intermediates – but it was actually already much too dry.

The pit lane opened a few seconds ago and the drivers are making their way to the starting grid. Not surprisingly, we now see intermediates on the cars. But that does not yet mean that they will start on these tires later. That will be decided just before the start.

Were we too hasty? Now it is raining in Zandvoort after all! And there are only 45 minutes left until the start. Large tents are being set up on the grid to keep the grid boxes dry. This could get interesting …

Dario Marrafuschi from Pirelli commented on the strategy today and explained: “The sprint once again showed how difficult overtaking maneuvers can be in Zandvoort.”

“The fastest strategy is therefore a one-stopper. You start on medium tires and run them until lap 27 to 33 before switching to hard tires for the rest of the race.”

“An alternative, which is about one second slower, is to start on soft tires, use them until the window between laps 26 and 32, and then finish the race on hard tires.”

Two stops are “on paper” also possible, but more difficult due to the overtaking situation.

Just over an hour to the start and there is still no rain in sight in Zandvoort. There is also only a slight chance for the rest of the afternoon. So we can (once again) expect a dry race.

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