Which Formula 1 driver made the most of the Dutch Grand Prix weekend?
It’s time to give your verdict on which driver did the best with the equipment at their disposal over the last three days.
Review how each driver got on below and vote for who impressed you the most at Zandvoort.
Driver performance summary
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Which driver do you think did the best job throughout the race weekend?
Who got the most out of their car in qualifying and the race? Who put their team mate in the shade?
Cast your vote below and explain why you chose the driver you picked in the comments.
Who was the best driver of the Dutch Grand Prix weekend?
- No opinion (1%)
- Kevin Magnussen (0%)
- Mick Schumacher (0%)
- Nicholas Latifi (0%)
- Alexander Albon (0%)
- Guanyu Zhou (0%)
- Valtteri Bottas (0%)
- Sebastian Vettel (1%)
- Lance Stroll (1%)
- Yuki Tsunoda (1%)
- Pierre Gasly (0%)
- Fernando Alonso (14%)
- Esteban Ocon (0%)
- Daniel Ricciardo (1%)
- Lando Norris (2%)
- Carlos Sainz Jnr (0%)
- Charles Leclerc (0%)
- Sergio Perez (0%)
- Max Verstappen (49%)
- George Russell (7%)
- Lewis Hamilton (21%)
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2022 Dutch Grand Prix
- Low-drag car should help Alpine in McLaren fight at Monza – Alonso
- Verstappen achieves his longest winning streak with second home victory
- Ferrari explain why they weren’t ready for Sainz’s first pit stop at Zandvoort
- “Why’d you stop George?”: How Mercedes drivers’ radio calls swung the Dutch GP
- Ricciardo told Piastri and Webber there’s “no hard feelings” over his McLaren exit
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Pat Ruadh (@fullcoursecaution)
4th September 2022, 22:27
Hamilton for me. Could have nicked it if the dice had fallen differently.
hyoko
4th September 2022, 22:44
Or binned in in the first lap (again!) by squeezing a Spaniard too hard. Very lucky to survive that.
And let’s not get started about team spirit.
GechiChan (@gechichan)
5th September 2022, 10:36
I really don’t understand how Hamilton would have won in a straight fight (without safety cars or VSC).
If Max pitted for new tires around lap 50 or so, he would have been only ~8 – 10 seconds behind LH, with much fresher tires and a quicker car, with 22 laps to go. Overtaking seemed fairly easy when George passed Lewis on different tires, so Max would have had an even easier job to catch and pass, given the straight line speed of the RBR.
Jelle van der Meer (@)
5th September 2022, 16:37
Hamilton made too many errors in the race including not asking for softs himself during last safety car.
Had contact with Sainz on lap 1 and had a poor restart due to choosing wrong spot and PU setting.
MCG (@malrg)
6th September 2022, 0:14
And not George Russel? same car but George forced the tyre decision, for me he did a better job than Lewis, took the decision into his own hands and got the better result.
hyoko
4th September 2022, 22:52
ALO was the guy who showed the rest what an early charge to hards could do. He was a bit unfortunate with the VSC and the SC, “El Plan” was to go with the hards to the end but then everybody got free pitstops for softs and it became a lot more complicated. Gets my vote today. OK, Max was very good and clean again, surgical precision in the critical pass (started it inches past the start line), after the guy ahead made the rookie mistake of accelerating too early and gift Max the slipstream. Ahem, still on time to learn to race, I guess.
Duncan Idaho (@didaho)
5th September 2022, 1:49
Last week Alo said he didn’t know how to do anything else, this week even that’s specialisation’s gone.
It occurred to me at the time he’d been reminded of the horrific carnage of last year’s Mugello by the F2 race and purposefully led off early.
George
5th September 2022, 2:51
ALO for me.
Took a chance with the hards and drove masterfully for 40 laps.
Also held off Norris over the last 8 laps with 10 lap old softs while Norris had new softs.
Reeled in Perez near the end.
RomTrain (@romtrain)
7th September 2022, 22:45
How stupid can one be to suggest the F1 champ with most titles and wins should learn racing. You could start to learn using some brain.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
4th September 2022, 23:50
If I think who could be the hero in this race I come up with hamilton, so I went with him, I see we’re quite a minority, but the fact he had a realistic chance to win on a mercedes was impressive imo.
Having said that, it was always gonna be an outside shot, if they had put him on softs with the VSC he could’ve defended more, but let’s not forget DRS still had to be enabled, I feel it’d have been hard to keep verstappen behind, and if neither SC nor VSC had come, he would’ve been in the lead as soon as verstappen stopped, but then I have a hard time thinking he could resist him, but really, he was the only threat for victory verstappen had.
Just a Fan
5th September 2022, 4:03
Had Hamilton pitted, he would have been behind Ver.
Broke1984 (@broke1984)
5th September 2022, 7:22
I don’t normally go for the dominant car/driver combo but Verstappen for me. Faultless all weekend
Jere (@jerejj)
5th September 2022, 7:40
DOTW & DOTD: VER, no one else stood out enough for either consideration.
MacLeod (@macleod)
5th September 2022, 7:52
I can’t decide between Max, Lewis, Not George (his Saterday was not good enough) Ocon and Charles.
BasCB (@bascb)
5th September 2022, 9:06
It could have been great for Mick Schumacher, but those two horror pitstops did him in. Stroll had a really good weekend. Alonso a very solid race. Both Mercedes drivers did a great job as well, after missing out a bit on saturday.
Given how close it was for pole and Max made it work, and then really brought it home I voted for him this time though,
George.be
5th September 2022, 18:23
What happened in the pits at Haas? Swapped Mechanics with Ferrari again?
magon4 (@magon4)
5th September 2022, 13:43
Danny Ric gets 2%?
MaddMe (@maddme)
5th September 2022, 14:00
Hamilton. He was strong throughout the practice sessions, drove a superb Quali lap and drove a very strong race. It was only really the strategy error that dropped him off the Podium
Max I have as a very close 2nd and the only reason for this is he has the quicker car.
playstation361
5th September 2022, 17:30
Max.
MCG (@malrg)
6th September 2022, 0:17
Who on earth voted for Daniel? this poll is not for your favourite driver… Daniel is my favourite, but really?
Sihrtogg (@sihrtogg)
6th September 2022, 7:06
Alonso, got blocked in quali not his fault. Then on Sunday he got 110% out of the car. The (V)SCs went against him: no complainting on the radio, just dealt with it masterfully.