WELCOME TO OUR COVERAGE OF THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX Hello, and thanks for joining us for our minute by minute text updates of this afternoon's Dutch Grand Prix from Circuit Zandvoort on the western coast of the Netherlands. I'm Ethan van Ristell. We should have a cracking race in store here today, with the Dutch fans eager to see Max Verstappen secure his 10th victory of the 2022 F1 season. The Red Bull driver starts this race on pole position. Both Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are just behind him in P2 and P3 respectively, with Lewis Hamilton starting in fourth.

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Updated 04/09/2022 at 14:44 GMT

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-LAP 72/72 - VERSTAPPEN WINS THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX! Verstappen wins back-to-back home races here at Zandvoort! That is his 10th win of the season and fourth victory in a row. A great drive from the Championship leader. Russell comes home in P2, and Leclerc rounds off the podium.
-LAP 1/72 - LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO! The five red lights go out here at Zandvoort, and we are underway! Verstappen leads into the banked Turn 1 after covering off Leclerc! Hamilton tries to get on the inside of Sainz into Turn 2, and it looks like there is the slightest of contact between the two! ORDER: VER, LEC, SAI, HAM, PER, NOR, RUS, STR, OCO, MSC.

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Here is the on-the-flag report on what we have just seen here. The full report will be with you shortly!

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Verstappen takes home victory as Hamilton rages at team for pit-stop call

04/09/2022 at 19:45

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LAP 72/72 - VERSTAPPEN WINS THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX!

Verstappen wins back-to-back home races here at Zandvoort! That is his 10th win of the season and fourth victory in a row. A great drive from the Championship leader.

Russell comes home in P2, and Leclerc rounds off the podium.

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LAP 71/72 - TWO LAPS TO GO

Perez goes wide on the exit of Turn 1 trying to get past Sainz as the Ferrari driver makes the car big to defend his position, and the Red Bull puts a wheel in the gravel.

That compromises him as Alonso is now right behind him now and trying to get past and into P6.

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LAP 68/72 - FIVE SECOND PENALTY FOR SAINZ

Carlos Sainz has been given a five second time penalty for an unsafe pit stop release! That will be applied at the flag, but as it stands, that will drop him outside the top ten and out of the points.

Sainz is currently in P5, defending heavily from Perez behind him.

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LAP 66/72 - HAMILTON OUT OF THE PODIUM POSITIONS!

Hamilton is a sitting duck on those tyres and Leclerc now gets past him using DRS down the main straight. He will be fuming as he drops to P4.

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LAP 64/72 - RUSSELL GETS PAST HAMILTON

Hamilton gets overtaken down the main straight by his team-mate! Russell almost rear-ends Hamilton whilst trying to make the overtake, but he eventually makes the move stick.

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LAP 62/72 - TEN LAPS TO GO!

Verstappen has already pulled out a gap to Hamilton, and it is now his race to lose. Meanwhile, Russell is now closing in on his teammate! Hamilton will struggle to keep him behind on his tyres.

Apparently, Hamilton has come on the radio to show his displeasure at the situation.

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LAP 61/72 - GREEN FLAG!

Hamilton opts to go before the last corner, and he immediately loses the lead of the race to Verstappen into the first corner down the main straight! That restart did not go to plan for the Mercedes driver!

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LAP 60/72 - SAFETY CAR IN THIS LAP!

The safety car is in this lap! Lewis Hamilton says on the radio that it will be very hard to keep Verstappen behind him. Let's see how this plays out.

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LAP 58/72 - RUSSELL COMES INTO THE PITS

The Safety Car comes through the pits, and Russell opts to make a last minute call and change onto the soft tyres. Hamilton does not change his tyres.

Meanwhile, Sainz could have an unsafe release, as he narrowly avoids a collision with Alonso in the pits. Hamilton remains out in front on the scrub mediums, and Russell is now in P3 with fresh softs. Verstappen is in 2nd.

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LAP 57/72 - SAFETY CAR!

We have a safety car! This changes everything here. Verstappen pits from the lead for the soft compound, but both Mercedes drivers stay out on the mediums!

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LAP 56/72 - YELLOW FLAGS!

There are double yellow flags in both sectors 1 and 3, as Bottas pulls over on the side of the track on the main straight!

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LAP 51/72 - HAMILTON IS PUSHING

Lewis is instructed to push on his medium tyres. The gap is now 12.6 seconds to Verstappen. Can the Mercedes catch the Red Bull? We have 20 laps to go.

CLASSIFICATION: VER, HAM, RUS, LEC, PER, OCO, SAI, NOR

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LAP 50/72 - ALL FRONT RUNNERS HAVE COME IN!

Verstappen comes in on Lap 48, and changes to a set of hard tyres. Instead of staying out, Hamilton comes in on the same lap to make the most of the virtual safety car and fit a set of medium tyres to try and challenge for the victory.

Mercedes double stack, and Russell also goes for the same strategy.

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LAP 48/72 - VIRTUAL SAFETY CAR!

We have a VSC! After Tsunoda gets back into the pits, the pit crew try and sort something in his cockpit before sending him back out. He then reports an issue with the rear and pulls over to the side of the track. It triggers a VSC, and this will shake things up at the front if they decide to pit - a pit stop will be around ten seconds less than normal in terms of time.

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LAP 46/72 - LECLERC PITS

Leclerc comes in for a new set of hards. He drops to P4 behind Russell.

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LAP 45/72 - TSUNODA PULLS OVER BUT GETS CAR GOING AGAIN

Shortly after pitting, the front left on the AlphaTauri comes loose mid-lap, which sees the car pull over to the side of the circuit. It threatens a safety car, but the driver gets the car going again and slowly goes to the pits.

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LAP 44/72 - HAMILTON NOW JUST FIVE SECONDS BEHIND LECLERC

The Mercedes driver continues to push and halved the gap. Perez has now set the fastest lap of the race and is closing in on Lando Norris ahead of him.

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LAP 40/72 - HAMILTON LAPPING QUICK

Lewis Hamilton is the fastest man on the circuit here. He is now 18 seconds behind Verstappen, so he is closing in.

He is around 10 seconds behind Leclerc, who is in P2.

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