Formula One statistics for the Dutch Grand Prix

Formula One statistics for Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, the 13th race of the 22-round season.

Lap distance: 4.259km. Total distance: 306.587km (72 laps)

2022 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull one minute 10.342 seconds.

2022 race winner: Verstappen

Race lap record: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:11.097, 2021

Start time: 1300GMT (1500 local)

NETHERLANDS

The race returned to the calendar in 2021 for the first time since 1985.

Verstappen won in 2021 and 2022, both times from pole position, making him the only current driver on the grid to have won the Dutch Grand Prix.

Zandvoort opened in 1948 in the coastal sand dunes and is often described as "old school" - a quick and flowing circuit with high-speed changes of direction and much of the lap spent cornering.

Overtaking can be a challenge, putting an emphasis on qualifying.

It is roughly a half-hour train journey from Amsterdam.

The last two banked corners have an angle steeper than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 235 metre pit lane is the shortest of the season, and the speed limit is lowered from the usual 80kph to 60kph.

The narrow and twisty track, with 14 corners, is the second shortest on the calendar and the race has only six laps less than Monaco. Only 55 per cent of the lap is spent at full throttle.

WINS

Verstappen has won the last eight races and can equal the record of nine successive wins in a single season set by Sebastian Vettel, also with Red Bull, in 2013.

The Dutch driver has so far won 10 races in 2023. He has 45 wins from 175 starts and is fifth on the all-time list. Alain Prost, with 51, is fourth.

Red Bull have won every race this season (10 for Verstappen, two for Perez) and a total of 13 in a row dating back to Abu Dhabi