F1 action is back this weekend as Max Verstappen hopes to pick up a vital race win in his homecoming Dutch Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton remains just three points ahead of his rival and Sunday's race should prove to be one of the most pivotal of the season yet.
- Practice start time: 10.30am BST
- TV/Live stream: Sky Sports F1
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- Joshua Mbu
FP1
Here we go!
FP1 is underway for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Max Verstappen will want to win in front of his home crowd on the revamped circuit.
Lewis Hamilton could receive a frosty welcoming, despite the warm weather.
- Joshua Mbu
CIRCUIT OVERHAUL
The Dutch circuit was overhauled at the beginning in 2019.
The Hugenholtz and Arie Luyendijk corners now banked, making it steeper than Indianapolis.
Other corners on the track have been reprofiled to provide a high-speed and high-G challenge for the drivers.
Max Verstappen has called the changes 'very special' ahead of today's practice.
He said: "Everyone is very interested in the banked corners and I have to say, when you do the track walk it looks very special.
"You don’t really see that a lot on other kind of tracks. It definitely adds something to it.
"Of course, the last corner… will be easy flat[-out] but Turn 3 gives you more opportunities in terms of what lines you can take.”
- Joshua Mbu
DUTCH GRAND PRIX
Good morning and welcome to the live blog for this weekend's F1 Dutch Grand Prix action.
We're starting off with practice, which is due to get underway in just over quarter of an hour.
Dutch national and Lewis Hamilton's title rival Max Verstappen is buzzing for his first home Grand Prix in the Netherlands.
And the return of Zandvoort to the F1 calendar for the first time since 1985 adds to the excitement.
He said: "I have to say, they’ve done an incredible job setting this all up and first of all on hosting the Grand Prix, but also now how you look at the whole complex as a whole, it looks very cool and I hope we can have a good fun weekend, of course with a good result; that’s always what you try to aim for, but I think we can enjoy ourselves on a Saturday once the fuel comes out and we’ll see how fast we can go around this track."
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