FACTS AND STATS: Piastri and Norris lock out the front row on Bruce McLaren’s birthday as Zandvoort gets new track record

Saturday brought another thrilling battle between McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, while Isack Hadjar starred for Racing Bulls and Lance Stroll hit trouble in his Aston Martin. Here are all of the facts and stats you need to know about from Qualifying in the Netherlands...

• Mclaren’s 69th front row lock-out surpasses Ferrari for second on the all-time list behind Mercedes’ 82
• It also came on the 88th anniversary of team founder Bruce McLaren’s birth
• Mclaren have never previously taken pole or won on Bruce McLaren’s birthday
• Piastri’s fifth pole position of the season is the most for any driver in 2025

• It also marked Piastri’s first pole since the Spanish Grand Prix six races ago
• Piastri has now out-qualified Norris for the ninth time in 15 Grands Prix this season
• All four of the previous Dutch Grands Prix on this layout have been won from pole
• Piastri’s pole-winning time of 1m 08.662s is an outright Zandvoort track record
• Norris missed out on pole by 0.012s for the second time this season – Max Verstappen having taken pole by the same margin at Suzuka
• Norris led every practice session this weekend before being beaten in Qualifying
• Verstappen posted the fastest middle sector split en route to third place
• Nonetheless, it marks his lowest-ever start at Zandvoort

• Verstappen has always finished where he qualified at the Dutch Grand Prix
• Isack Hadjar’s fourth place marks his career-best start in F1
• It is only the 13th top-four start for the Faenza-based team in 40 years (3x as Minardi, 2x as Toro Rosso, 6x as AlphaTauri, 1x as RB and 1x as Racing Bulls)
• George Russell’s fifth-place grid slot means the Mercedes driver has still only qualified outside the top six once all season (in Monaco)
• Charles Leclerc has now out-qualified Ferrari team mate Lewis Hamilton 11-4 this season
• Hamilton was only 0.050s slower than Leclerc in Q3, though
• Hamilton’s seventh place came in his first Q3 appearance since Silverstone
• Liam Lawson, in eighth, ensured Racing Bulls got both cars into Q3 for the third consecutive Grand Prix

• Carlos Sainz’s run to ninth brought him a first Q3 appearance since the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in mid-May
• Fernando Alonso made a seventh Q3 appearance in the last nine Grands Prix with his 10th-place showing
• Kimi Antonelli, in 11th, failed to reach Q3 for the second consecutive Grand Prix
• 12th-placed Yuki Tsunoda was exactly 0.500s slower than Red Bull team mate Verstappen
• Tsunoda and Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto set identical Q2 times (1m 09.622s)
• Bortoleto out-qualified team mate Nico Hulkenberg for the ninth time this season (and the fifth consecutive Grand Prix)
• Pierre Gasly’s 14th place marked only his third Q2 elimination of the season so far
• In 15th, Alex Albon will start from the same position as his first Dutch Grand Prix with Williams in 2022

• Franco Colapinto could not avoid a fifth Q1 elimination of the season in 16th
• Hulkenberg’s 17th place means he and Lance Stroll have been eliminated in Q1 a season-high 10 times
• Hulkenberg has gained 10+ positions over his starting position at four Grands Prix this season
• In 18th, Esteban Ocon fell at the Q1 hurdle at Zandvoort for the third year in a row
• Ollie Bearman, who qualified 19th, has the lowest average starting position of the season (16.1)
• Stroll’s crash and P20 results brought a 10th Q1 elimination of the season
• The Aston Martin driver also followed up his FP2 crash with a shunt in Q1