Statistics for the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix

Statistics for the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix at Zandvoort, round 15 of the 24-race championship:

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

2023 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull One minute 10.567 seconds.

2023 race winner: Verstappen, Red Bull

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 has won all three races since then from pole position.

Zandvoort opened in 1948 in the coastal sand dunes, roughly half an hour by train from Amsterdam, and is distinctly "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.

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.

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

WINS

Seven times world champion Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 346 starts.

Four teams - Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes - have won a race this season, the most since 2021 when Red Bull, Mercedes, Alpine and McLaren won.

Seven different drivers have triumphed, the most in a single season since 2012 when there were eight.

Red Bull have gone four races without a win - Verstappen's longest losing streak since 2020.

Mercedes have won three of the last four.

Verstappen has won seven of 14, with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz triumphant in Melbourne, Norris in Miami, Leclerc in